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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby singlespeedscott » Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:51 am
munga wrote:Celestial beings in outer space care about my bicycle? I feel so insignificant now..
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby The Fixer » Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:58 pm
Just refurbished from a complete but unrideable rusty wreck with blue overspray all over the front half of the
frame, rotten tyres, no seat, and seized cables, chain and derailleurs. The frame is perfect, as was the original
speckled purple/black paintwork once the blue overspray was removed.
Already sold, and its happy new owner picks it up next week.
I don't think it scrubbed up too badly, really.
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Postby singlespeedscott » Mon Apr 21, 2014 12:21 pm
Well after stripping the frame down it appears the fork is not what Repco says it is. The steerer is Tange stamped with a Tange crown and forged TF tips. The catalog says the fork is, "Hi-Tensile, CCL crown and TF ends." The fork weighs 830g which whilst no light weight is certainly not a boat anchor. The fork I was thinking if replacing it with has slightly less rake and comes in at 680g. It's built with a champion rifled steerer the same crown race, tange Cr-Mo blades and Suntour GT tips. The tips match those used on the Olympic's frame.singlespeedscott wrote:Righto Repcophilles. I picked up an 1984 Olympic 12 on ebay last week and am keen to use it as my new longer distance bike/commuter due to it's double water boss mounts and Tange champion 2 tubing. However browsing through the 84-85 catalog I see that the fork is suppose to be Hi-Ten and that the main frame tubes are double butted. Replaceing the fork with a Tange Cr-Mo one is no issue has I have few that will fill the job but my concern is that the rear stays are Hi-Ten. Does anyone know if this is the case or are they the standard straight gauge Champion cr-mo items. I don't want to come across as a tubing snob but the bike it would replace is one of my Ricardo Elite's which although is built from plain gauge champion tubing I know for a fact is all Cr-Mo. No point in downgrading on the stay's IMO.
I think I'll build the frame up and try both forks and see how it handles.
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Very nice. Love the white/green/black combo, looks good.Heff wrote:the commuter
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby koshari » Tue May 06, 2014 8:41 pm
as much as i would like to keep it original iam over downtube shifters.
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Postby singlespeedscott » Wed May 07, 2014 6:09 am
Why? I don't mind the DT shifters on my bikes that have them. I use them on my commuter and when I get on the bike with ergo's I initially try to change gears by moving my hand downkoshari wrote:been about 20 years and my repco elite rx is about to get upgraded with brifters
as much as i would like to keep it original iam over downtube shifters.
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Postby elantra » Wed May 07, 2014 9:51 am
Then you need 2 Repco's, one with brifters for those conditions and one with downtube shifters for the sake of it.koshari wrote:Pretty hilly area here and not great when you ride round a corner hit a steep hill and have to take a hand of the bars while grinding to drop gears. The other hand tends to pull the bars and put you into the kerb or oncoming traffic.
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby koshari » Wed May 07, 2014 2:54 pm
Plus i think if i got another bike my wife might have something to say about that, like "Ok now i want another bike!"
anyway arnt all the cool set riding "Fixies" on flat areas these days?
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby cray- » Wed May 07, 2014 3:08 pm
If by "these days" you mean 2005, then yes.koshari wrote:anyway arnt all the cool set riding "Fixies" on flat areas these days?
None of my bikes have brifters, never ridden with them so I guess I don't know what I'm missing. Gear changes take a bit of foresight but generally don't put me in harms way, the brinelling (indexed steering) on my Oly12 on the other hand..... Well I should really get that sorted out.
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby singlespeedscott » Wed May 07, 2014 5:39 pm
New headset time time methinkscray- wrote:...the brinelling (indexed steering) on my Oly12 on the other hand..... Well I should really get that sorted out.
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby schuberj » Wed May 07, 2014 6:02 pm
One (read all) of my Eurosports have had this problem, even the bottom race was broken (seems to be the case with all old 105 headsets) however in lieu of having a spare headset or being able to get a new 105 one I just re-greased it and put it back on with the correct tightness (or in this case looseness). 566km later on Melbourne's rather ordinary roads and still no movement or ratcheting at all!cray- wrote:the brinelling (indexed steering) on my Oly12 on the other hand..... Well I should really get that sorted out.
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby cray- » Thu May 08, 2014 11:36 am
Might try Sheldon's suggestion of removing the race and filling with extra ball bearings first.singlespeedscott wrote:New headset time time methinks
The lubricant breakdown theory sounds plausible. At first I thought the crash that bent my forks may have been to blame, except that was not the result of hitting a stationary object, but of a bag becoming caught between wheel and fork, sending me over the bars. So I'm not sure that the headset would've copped as much of a shunt. Dis-assembly may reveal more.schuberj wrote:One (read all) of my Eurosports have had this problem, even the bottom race was broken (seems to be the case with all old 105 headsets) however in lieu of having a spare headset or being able to get a new 105 one I just re-greased it and put it back on with the correct tightness (or in this case looseness).
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Note: I only have the road bike section at this stage, let me know if you need more as I can scan them if I get off my ****.
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby koshari » Fri May 16, 2014 7:11 pm
actually thats a great idea, effectively changing the pitch of the bearing so only one at a time will be fully parked in a rut, Sheldon really was full of lots of sound workarounds, but i hadn't read that one before on his site.cray- wrote:Might try Sheldon's suggestion of removing the race and filling with extra ball bearings first
I did use his alt cable route trick on the brifters though.
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby utedeej » Mon May 19, 2014 7:59 pm
I don't suppose anyone has some appropriate decals i could use or hints on where i might get some.
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Re: Repco Appreciation Society
Postby koshari » Mon May 19, 2014 9:52 pm
preferably something not to obtrusive to the eyes?
its black tubing and best i can think off is place a little black pvc tape around where it goes through the lugs, hoping it will be firm enough to not rattle anywhere along the tube against the frame.
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