by Dominic | Jan 27, 2019 | Repair Tips
The Purple Bike It’s not everyone’s cup of tea: a purple frame that is quite striking and flamboyent, but I really like the colour. The story is a short one: I bought a custom built bike, mysteriously branded “Treboutte”, last year, and took all the parts off...
by Dominic | Aug 19, 2018 | Repair Tips
Video The Repair What seems to work on a bike stand may not always work when on the road, and this was exactly the case here. I thought I had trimmed the lo screw accurately enough so the chain could be on the lowest cog without hitting the...
by Dominic | Aug 15, 2018 | Repair Tips, Vintage Bikes, Vintage British Bikes
Kept Indoors? I Don’t Think So.. I asked the original owner of this bike, a person who’d owned it from new all the way back to 1976, if it had been left outdoors. I believe she took a slight offence. She replied with a resounding “no”,...
by Dominic | Aug 11, 2018 | Repair Tips, Vintage Bikes, Vintage British Bikes
The Worst of It Rusty, dirty wheels; I don’t think there’s a tougher task when it comes to restoring a vintage bike. In this case, there’s even a question of whether these wheels are salvageable. You come to a point where you have to ask...
by Dominic | Jul 3, 2018 | Repair Tips
Mafac and Weinmann So many vintage road bikes still have their Weinmann or Mafac centre pull brakes intact. They were once the staple braking components on many French bikes, from the introduction of Mafac Racer brakes in 1952, to their eventual demise which...
by Dominic | Jun 29, 2018 | Repair Tips, Vintage Bike Parts, Vintage French Bike Parts
Repairing Old French Threads If your older French bike has damaged threads, you have a problem. French parts are becoming hard to find, and not many bike shops will be able to retap your pre-1982 threads on your bottom bracket shell and fork steerer to the same...
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