I've been busy today, while watching the Mets vs. Cardinals in the background (Eastern League AA is closed for Easter): Finally got the next to the last original Lambert part back on my Lambert. The three-ring crank. And, like every other Lambert part I've added to the frame since I originally got it, performance has dropped yet another notch. Ok, maybe I'm laying on the snark a little too heavy this time, because I've gone from a Maxi 48-42 to a Lambert 52-48-32 (well, the downtube sticker says the bike is a 15 speed) so of course it's not going to shift as quickly and as easily as the former setup.
This puts my bike almost back to original. Everything on the bike is Lambert components except for the hubs (which I'll do yet one of these days when I find a pair) and rear derailleur (which I will never do - even if I find one in working condition, it'll go in a glass case to be sold with the bike when the day comes). Not worrying about the rims, I actually like to ride the bike.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)
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