Pulled out of retirement,nut needs help to get on the road

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05-04-08 | 01:52 AM

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funrover

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From: Colorado

Bikes: Mostly schwinn... few classics

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Originally Posted by ollo_ollo

Your bike looks like the 1969 Sports I rode to school & work back in the early 80's. It should clean up into a great commuter bike. That is a Brooks B72 saddle, one of their most comfortable models, I still ride one on my touring bike. Don

Don't know about commuting on it yet, but small rides with the fiance for sure!

05-04-08 | 09:21 AM

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sciencemonster

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Originally Posted by bbattle

Yes, you beat the cotter pin off with a hammer, a sledge hammer. Then you curse the engineer that designed cotter pin cranks and heap praise upon the square taper gods. Of course, square taper is now obsolete, replaced by even more ingenious(and expensive) methods of securing the crankset.

I beat a cotter pin off with a hammer - two weeks later the axle cracked in half. Either support the crank with a block of wood when you hammer on it, or let the bike shop do it. You won't regret it. Either way, the cotter pins can not be put in from randomly both sides - the left crank cotter needs to be put in opposite of the right crank cotter or the cranks end up off exactly 180 degrees from each other. Hard to describe, but when one cotter pin is right side up, the other needs to be upside down.