Old 03-03-12 | 07:49 PM
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It is half rant/half tongue and cheek after spending the better part of the afternoon on what was supposed to be a simple re-packing of a headset. After 30 years, I thought I had seen it all between the Schwinns, French, Italian, Brittish, and some early Japanese bikes I have worked on/sold (heck, I recall specifically selling two Voyagers exactly like this one 20-some years ago), but this is about the top end of it. The fact that no one noticed that it did not steer all that well...at least until the steering tube was scored to match the tube ends...is appalling. After about an hour of trying to get the cups out without a cup remover (would not seat on the cups because the tubes were in the way), another hour and a half with a file (too far in to use a Dremel tool), and a sorta-newish headset out of the used headset bin, things seem to be better than new (I could proabably back over it in the driveway with the van and reach that low threshold).
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