by velocollective | Oct 24, 2019 | Repair Tips
French Steerer Threads Here is an email I received recently from Carles, with an interesting but difficult problem with his Vitus bike: “I recently ended up in your website, which I found super useful. I had the bad luck of ending up with a vitus with italian...
by velocollective | Jan 27, 2019 | Repair Tips
Converting to STI gearing It’s not everyone’s cup of tea: a purple frame that is quite striking and flamboyent, but I really like the colour. The story is a short one: I bought a custom built bike, mysteriously branded “Treboutte”, last year, and took all the...
by velocollective | Aug 19, 2018 | Repair Tips
Video Below Campagnolo Valentino Derailleur Repair What seems to work on a bike stand may not always work when on the road, and this was exactly the case on my Claud Butler. I thought I had trimmed the lo screw accurately enough so the...
by velocollective | Aug 15, 2018 | Repair Tips, Vintage Bikes, Vintage British Bikes
Kept Indoors? I Don’t Think So.. I asked the original owner of this bike, a person who’d owned it from new all the way back to 1976, if it had been left outdoors. I believe she took a slight offence. She replied with a resounding “no”,...
by velocollective | Aug 11, 2018 | Repair Tips, Vintage Bikes, Vintage British Bikes
The Worst of It Rusty, dirty wheels; I don’t think there’s a tougher task when it comes to restoring a vintage bike. In this case, there’s even a question of whether these wheels are salvageable. You come to a point where you have to ask...
by velocollective | Jul 3, 2018 | Repair Tips
Centre Pull for Side Pull So many vintage road bikes still have their Weinmann or Mafac centre pull brakes intact. They were once the staple braking components on many French bikes, from the introduction of Mafac Racer brakes in 1952, to their eventual demise...
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