Bringing It Once more – Bike Snob NYC

As you already know, I latterly found myself in receipt of a Shock Marinoni:

It was clearly a very optimistic bicycle, nonetheless it required an overhaul:

Along with needing cables and tape and brake hoods and the usual stuff an earlier bike desires, the drivetrain was in an advanced state of harm, ensuing from which it was powerful to find out the exact scenario of the shifters. Moreover, Campagnolo has manner again abandoned 8-speed like an illegitimate teen, and as such it’s merely in regards to the least-supported drivetrain in existence. So I had a name to make: do I stick with the evolutionary lifeless end that’s 8-speed Campy and hope all of it really works, or do I merely start from scratch with each Shimano STI or downtube shifters? In the long run, I opted for the earlier inside the hope that these conventional pointy-topped Ergos nonetheless had some life in them.

Yesterday’s local weather was positively nice. Nonetheless, I opted to stay in and work on the ‘Noner fairly than go for a expertise. Having merely recovered from a bout of what I consider might have been meals poisoning (nonetheless which moreover might have been prolonged publicity to roadies and/or Spinergys), I figured resting and tinkering in its place of driving was a wise choice; nonetheless, trying again, a expertise would perhaps have been far a lot much less taxing. In any event, inside the spirit of optimism that naturally accompanies being able to face and keep down meals as soon as extra, I laid out my various parts and set to work:

Naturally I started by stripping the mummified cockpit:

And de-cabling the shifters and brakes:

I keep in any case these years a terrible bicycle mechanic, nonetheless I’ve nonetheless managed to be taught plenty of courses alongside one of the simplest ways. One in all them is to to always take a picture of the place the cables go:

Regardless that it’s usually fairly obvious, it not at all hurts to have a reference when you’re putting in new ones:

One different is to always use shitloads of grease on all fittings:

This might stop numerous trouble afterward–like when you uncover your ferrules have seized in your cable stops:

I was not shocked to hunt out this was the case on the ‘Noner:

Fortunately I was able to faucet them out with out an extreme quantity of difficulty:

Moreover seized had been the adjusters on the downtube cable stops:

I couldn’t get the one on the exact transferring, and I couldn’t get the cable out of the one on the left the least bit, so in the end I merely modified them every.

With the cockpit lastly stripped…

…I gave the shifters a lube bathtub:

First I hit them with some Liquid Wrench, then I adopted up with some Tri-Stream. I was totally winging it proper right here and don’t know whether or not or not or not this technique was prudent. Really, according to the consultants, it was exactly the wrong issue to do:

Nonetheless, I’ll not at all actually rebuild these things as a result of the parts at the moment are not obtainable, and they also seem to run by the clicks correctly post-spritz, so maybe I’ll get lucky.

This was to not be an atomic-level overhaul–given the final scenario of the bike I wasn’t going to totally flush every bearing on the bike or one thing like that–nonetheless I did decide I’d as correctly open up the headset and stick barely additional grease in there:

So that’s what I did:

I moreover pulled the crank and the underside bracket (English threads, in case you had been questioning):

I’d noticed a bit of little bit of play within the exact crankarm the ultimate time I rode the bike, so I hoped the taper wasn’t damaged. With the underside bracket cartridge out I moreover well-known that the spindle ran barely powerful. Then there have been the chainrings, which had been visibly worn. Since I didn’t have spare rings or a spare bottom bracket for this crank I considered merely altering the complete factor since I had one different crank and bottom bracket that can work merely optimistic, nonetheless as soon as extra, given the final scenario of the bike I figured I’d as correctly merely put all of it once more on and hope I can squeeze barely additional life out out it:

Everytime you’re engaged on a bike it’s always the seemingly simple stuff that ends up taking in all probability essentially the most time. Like, given the scenario of the bike I completely anticipated having to wrestle eternally to get the underside bracket out or one factor like that, nonetheless I merely assumed the cassette swap would solely take a few minutes. This was not the case:

Firstly, the cassette acquired right here out of the sphere all unfastened, which was not a fantastic sign. Secondly, putting the cogs on is totally annoying, since whereas 8-speed Campagnolo is form of like Hyperglide in that the splines are irregular so you could solely put the cog on a way, the irregularity is type of arduous to see so you end up trying to put each cog on like 5 situations until you lastly get it. In spite of everything Campagnolo in the end modified this by transferring to this deranged spline pattern, which I moreover uncover confounding because of it’s too irregular:

Then as soon as extra neither my eyesight nor my coordination are what they as quickly as had been.

Then as quickly as I acquired the cogs all on I found the lockring didn’t pretty seem to interact that correctly with the Campy lockring machine, so I merely switched to the Campy lockring, solely to hunt out that when tightened the complete cassette was nonetheless unfastened on the freehub physique. Figuring I might want to have missed a spacer, I found one different skinny one inside the area, nonetheless it didn’t pretty match onto the freehub physique–desire it was a half a hair too small in diameter. Maybe it matches a Miche hub? I dunno, nonetheless it was at this degree I began to shock if the cassette was unfastened inside the area because of any person had returned it in disgust.

Fishing by my drawers of crap, I tried to find a spacer that can match, nonetheless I acquired right here up with nothing. So then I tried the model new cogs with the spacers from the earlier Campy cassette, merely in case, nonetheless that didn’t work each. By this time I’d put the cassette on like three or 4 situations, clumsily jigsaw-puzzling each cog on one after the opposite, and lemme inform you with eight cogs that really begins in order so as to add up. So lastly I took a spacer from an earlier Shimano cassette, caught it between the small cog and the lockring the place it wouldn’t should go well with over the exact freehub physique, and that appeared to do it:

The cassette seems to be cosy and whatever the further width the lockring clears the physique, so hopefully that solves the problem:

It was at this degree I was pressured to admit to myself I was not going to get the bike overhauled in a single session, so after reinstalling the cranks I hung up the ‘Noner for yet one more day.

To be continued.