Re: [CR]French BB parts needed

Jason,

While it is relatively easy to find French threaded BB cups, for some reason it is more difficult to find the matching lock rings. But I have discovered that the current production FSA British threaded lockring has such poor tolerances, it can be forced onto a French adjustable cup without too much difficulty: http://www.bikeman.com/CR5001.html

But before resorting to this, try to find an old, bent up Peugeot at the local flea market, Goodwill store or trash dump. Do you have a bike shop in your vecinity that specializes in used bikes? E.g. a place like this:
      http://www.bikeclubva.com/index.html Typically, these shops have a lot of rusty, old bikes around for the specific purpose of scavenging odd bits and pieces like French BB lock rings.
     Good luck,
     Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> I'm working on a bike for a friend and the BB needs
> help. Seems that his local bike shop mechanics are too
> young to know about French BB threading. They were unable
> to remove the fixed cup, so they left it in place. The
> adjustable cup was replaced with a BSC cup. The threads in
> the shell seem to be OK, as I threaded the fixed cup into
> the left side and it went in, though with a bit of a
> struggle.
>
> The bike is a variant of a Peugeot UO-18, branded Helium.
> It is painted yellow with black lugs. It has a tab on the
> left seatstay for a bottle generator along with fold-over
> tabs under the down tube to hold the generator wire. It
> also has the goofy single-side shifter braze-on on the down
> tube with the wrap-around band for the left (front) shifter
> that is made to fit around the braze-on.
>
> Does anyone know the connection between the Helium brand
> and Peugeot?
>
> If you have a set of French BB cups that they are willing
> to sell, please contact me off list? Something suitable for
> this level bike would be OK.
>
> I am also looking for an extra French BB lockring. Should
> be NOS or very nice condition used. I needed to remove the
> adjustable cup from a French bike that I own in order to
> determine positively that the Helium had a BSC cup
> installed. I seem to have misplaced the lockring. To add
> insult to injury, I gave a bunch of scrap metal to a local
> scrapper and I'm thinking the lockring was in that load
> of stuff. DOH!
>
> Sincerely,
> Jason Cloutier
> Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA