So I found my lockring, attached it and went riding, now here it is, in all it’s glory, straight back after it’s maiden voyage as the ‘silver shadow’.
We went on a lovely 30 or so miler yesterday evening with Hardysan on his brand new and totally luscious Parlee. It was a beautiful ride in the evening sun around West heath, Blackwell, Wythall, Lickey hills and then some… I tell you, it was probably the most hills in succession I have ridden round these parts. Not bad training for a european excursion, perhaps do the route 3 times on an empty stomach, with a rucksack on and flat tyres, I’m sure that’d be training enough.
It was all gravy until I reached about 5 miles from home and 30 minutes before the World Cup final began, when I heard “crunch, click, crunch, click, clunk, click”. Strange, so I looked down and to my horror I noticed that the noise that had been coming from the rear of the bicycle for the past few weeks was indeed what I thought it might have been… A knackered freewheel. Damn thing had pretty much fallen off and it was now refusing to engage and turn the wheel.
I had known something was up since I got these wheels, A clunking every now and then when spinning at high revs, but until something broke I had no idea what it was exactly, thankfully it chose to fail in relative walking distance from my home.
Next up it’s a relentless hunt for a 6 speed block and preferably Regina!
Tags: 90s, c record, campagnolo, chorus, cinelli, classic, columbus, cromor, olmo, repro, selle italia, steel, vintage
July 12, 2010 at 11:37 pm |
I told you aldready,
but I have that campagnolo hub with a regina 6spd block fitted to it!
I think I might actually have two knackered wheels with regina blocks on them.
July 13, 2010 at 7:45 am |
ha ha ha! “I told you already”……
You’ve been told….
July 14, 2010 at 5:10 pm |
holy crap! good work, Leader of the Old School.
July 16, 2010 at 6:41 pm |
gav i think joe is saying you’re old. What a cranker.