Thank you for explaining why my '71 Triumph Tiger 650 is still sitting dead in the garage (two years now), motor half built, while four perfectly running road bikes grace the walls. I's seriously considering putting the Triumph up for sale, as-is.
George R. "Syke" Paczolt
Montpelier, VA USA
> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:09:38 -0400
> From: Bianca Pratorius <biankita@comcast.net>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Message: 1
>
> Thanks to Ted Ernst, Lou Deeter, Sheldon Brown, and
> Fred Rednor who
> helped me to determine that I had a lefty loosey
> Italian fixed cup. I
> attempted to remove it using the Sheldon Brown trick
> of using a 5/8"
> bolt, nut and lock washers, but no matter how hard I
> tightened the
> bolt, it loosened when I applied counter clockwise
> force to remove the
> fixed cup. I also tried two nuts, with a bolt, but
> it still loosened
> under counter clockwise force. Finally I took a 36
> mm wrench and bolted
> it to the fixed cup, using the same 5/8" bolt with
> washers and nuts. I
> applied what I consider to be an inordinate amount
> of force for
> anything on a delicate bicycle. It came loose and
> now it's off.
> Sweating and applying muscle bulging force to any
> bolt seems brutal,
> and it's the real reason I stopped working on cars.
> They're dirty and
> bolts are frozen on and require torches, breaker
> bars, liquid wrench,
> assistance, prayer, knuckle busting and cursing.
> Bicycles are so much
> more civilized. You can work on them wearing your
> good tee shirt,
> indoors listening to music and with air
> conditioning. You can stop at
> any time, have a meal, take a nap or answer the
> phone without having to
> strip naked and shower down with a tub of Gojo, and
> without turning the
> shower stall tiles black.
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