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  • Started 4 years ago by gembo
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  1. gembo
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    A very kind gentleman comes around my abode once a week to move on a bike conversion project.

    I pay him in purvey (potatoes [kerr’s pink], red beer and white burgundy so far)
    I would judge him to be both Canty and Couthy

    However, the bike has much to fix. Mostly at the moment around the cantilever brakes that His Mattness put on the tricross due to the badness of Specialized and their familiars the EBC.

    I learnt that the little cable between the brake blocks are called straps. I now have three serviceable second hand straps. Might get new ones either Froome HIs Mattness or Decathlon. BUT his Mattness also put an interesting 3-way pivot thing on the front canti. Instead of just the claw that is on the back.

    Some questions

    A. Is anyone understanding what I am on about?
    2. What is the actual name of the claw (in case I have to explain this to His Mattness or Decathlon)
    Iii Does anyone have a spare claw?? I rummaged and tootled to no effect.
    Q. Will the claw work as well as the 3-way pivot
    7. Why did His Mattness go for the 3-way pivot and not the claw??

    Footnote - @Moose christened our local bike mechanic His Mattness and I like this

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  2. I were right about that saddle
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    I certainly have no idea what you're on about. The Name of The Claw was a novel by Sean Connery? Dogs sometimes have a spare claw but it is removed by vets and disposed of as the biohazard it is. Fitting one to your bike is a step too far.

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  3. gembo
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    Scarface Claw is the villain in Slinky Malinky

    Sam the Skull is the anti-hero in the song of the same name. As it is Friday sit back and enjoy -

    I’m a cat. I’m a cat, I’m a Glasgow cat
    and my name is Sam The Skull
    I’ve got claws on my paws like a crocodile’s jaws an a Heid like a fermer’s bull
    I’m no the kind of cat that sat on a mat
    Or the kind that ye give a hug
    I’m the kind of cat that strangles rats and even the occasional dug

    After many adventures Sam settles down and lives wi’ a burd in a single end in Maryhill

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  4. Frenchy
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    Dogs sometimes have a spare claw but it is removed by vets and disposed of as the biohazard it is.

    Dogs sometimes remove them by themselves, too, leading to living room carpets à la Jackson Pawlock.

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  5. wingpig
    Member

    @gembo I have two of those claw things - see the Swapshop thread. Shall I remove one from iwrats' bag and keep it by for you?

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  6. gembo
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    @wingpig

    Iwrats is being whimsical, the Yoke is for me, IWRATS is the kind gentleman converting my bike to gravel for the Tilt at Glen Tilt escapade.

    Two though better than one if you want to shed, the straddles I have are functional what are your straddles like? As infact I do need to give two straddles back (they were taken off a bike last night before we knew about the yoke malfunction). So one or two straddle straps also much appreciated

    I have Kerr’s Pink, Golden Wonder or Sharpo Mira spuds as payment

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  7. I were right about that saddle
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    Your Kerr's Pinks were lovely. Boiled five minutes and sauteed with garlic. Fried egg, slice of ham. Cornichonhihon.

    I have the bits! @wingpig has given us the bits!

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  8. gembo
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    Tatties howked from ground, scrubbed, boiled for 5 then served - is what the folk coming round Gembo Towers for dinner are getting from me

    Mrs Garto has a chicken dish

    WG Sebald goes on walk to Rings of Saturn/Southwold talks of Urn Burials (Thomas Browne) and the holocaust but the bit I remember is him meeting an old boy in remote Suffolk cottage as he walks through and being invited in for fresh tatties from the ground and old WG writing this in his book. As he thought this was how we should live

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  9. wingpig
    Member

    I'd've thrown in a set of caliper-sized Kool Stop canti pad holders if I'd known.

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  10. gembo
    Member

    I do like Koolstop but they have been deleted from this project by the mighty iWRATS err, and me buying cheaper replacement blocks for the kool stops he has kindly removed. One of which required good tool and big force.

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  11. I were right about that saddle
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    Yes, Père Gembeau gave his blessing to a headshot on the rear right cantilever. Very satisfying crack, straight between the eyes. Winter salt weld no match for the correct tool.

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  12. Moose
    Member

    The 3 way pivot is a safety feature for the event where the brake cable snaps and the traditional straddle wire then catches a knob (on the tyre) and you stop rather violently. Required on the front, not so on the back... His Mattness has your back, with the front, (or something.)

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  13. gembo
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    Aye Moose. Invented by Shimano in the 1990s following numerous mountain bike offs withthe claw type straddle. His Mattness claiming he normally does pivot front and back and has no claws. The Dawes Super Galaxy my pal GK has (a thing of beauty) is pivot front and rear.

    You missed out on Borestane last night. The midges were ferocious but we made it right up to the grouse butts. Tam summoned from there to paint an iron bench that is going to front garden south side glasgow. I have mentioned a ground anchor several times.

    On ironwork, the church at Carstairs Junction where you turn to take the closed to cars Tie Road No 2, has a beautiful Victorian iron work gazebo in its front garden, the sort that usually has a water fountain beneath the cupola

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  14. Moose
    Member

    An iron-based front reflector fitting through the caliper brake hole in the fork also prevents a wayward straddle from fouling the tyre.
    I got a gravel fix this morning after cycling to the high school with the new start. If I ever see the mobility scooter at west kip I will make a point of stopping to thank him.

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  15. gembo
    Member

    @moose, he will be out today with his guns for to shoot dem wee birdies

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  16. I were right about that saddle
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    Great chat thank you.

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