Could we hazard to guess more Italian and French taps now belong to non Bike shops? I have oberved many of the Campy kits on Ebay are Italian/French . Jamie any KOF guys using French or Italian? Heres another Tack, Go to your local Car dealer and see if they have any specialty tools for a 15-20 year old car
BOB FREITAS MILL VALLEY, CA USA
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> On May 22, 2009, at 7:48 PM, oroboyz@aol.com <mailto:oroboyz@aol.com>
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>> << Today in Marin (a Probike hotbed) maybe only 1 shop could
>> rethread an Italian BB, he could do it in 30 minutes or so but it
>> would take him 2 weeks to find where he put the tools >>
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>> It's a shame they don't have good shops out there in California like
>> we have in North Carolina Ha ha!
>> (Acxtually I wonder how many here have Italian taps, etc. Not many I
>> bet...)
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>> Greensboro, NC USA
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Freitas <freitas1@pacbell.net <mailto:freitas1@pacbell.net>>
>> To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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>> Sent: Fri, 22 May 2009 7:15 pm
>> Subject: [CR] Lack of proper tooling at local bike shops (may as well
>> make that lack of skills with vintage stuff in general)
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>> I am thinking all that Italian and French frame
>> tooling was sold off as bikes went to a world wide standard. Many of us
>> have bought up some of that stuff and are now the beneficiaries.
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>> Even in the day most shops lacked the BB taps
>> ,reamers and head tube tools. The average shop would try to straighten
>> your fork and failing that usually used a replacement fork with was
>> threaded for a wide range of sizes. Then the operation was simply cut to
>> size.
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>> Today in Marin (a Probike hotbed) maybe only 1 shop
>> could rethread an Italian BB, he could do20it in 30 minutes or so but it
>> would take him 2 weeks to find where he put the tools
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>> BOB FREITAS
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>> waiting until Tuesday for my fame to spread in MILL VALLEY ,CA USA
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