Today I have been doing quite a few smaller jobs on the bike. Not the most exotic ones but they needed to be done. Thursday I will be going to the firm that relined my rear brake shoes to try and find a solution for the distortion. I agreed on bringing the whole lot with [...]
With my wife and the kids gone today I had all the time I needed to have a go at the roller bearing conversion I posted about yesterday. In fact I had already started on this earlier this week but as my lathe was not working properly I had to do some maintenance first. This [...]
While disassembling the two speed gear of my Scott, I noticed that the cup and cone bearing on the low gear side, on which the whole assembly runs, were shot. Most probably due to the same lack of oil I wrote about earlier… As new cups and cones are becoming hard to find nowadays I [...]
This last week I have been preparing and shipping various parts of my Scott to several contractors. The bike is in fact scattered all over the place… The first part I have send off is the exhaust. The pipe that was on the bike when I bought it was homemade by the former owner. He [...]
Today I worked some more on the bike. Mainly taking it further to pieces so I can see what needs to be done. I also put the flywheel in the lathe with the stubs as described earlier. I cleaned the flywheel rim and then clocked it on the left, in the middle and on the [...]
