[CR]Anti-sliding for bars and seat mounts

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:31:21 -0400
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Harvey M Sachs" <sachs@erols.com>
Subject: [CR]Anti-sliding for bars and seat mounts

Last weekend I stripped down an old bike and saw the old sandpaper-under-the stem trick. Some may not know these but find them useful. These are in the category of desperate times...

1) Need to adapt 25.4 bars to slightly bigger stem... I used to use sandpaper or (better) beer can as shim to make the fit and keep from sliding. Last weekend, found a better material: used ashim cut from an overhead transparency sheet, somewhere about 5 mil thick. rigid enough to slide in easily, easy to trim, and very nearly invisible from the edge.

2) The one-bolt seatpost ridges and valleys gone smooth, so the saddle has a wonderful auto-tilt feature? Put a piece of pretty coarse sandpaper between them. the Garnet "sand" will dig into the metal and give a good surface. You don't care if the sandpaper is waterproof; the grains do the work.

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harvey sachs