Litespeed renovation
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:29 pm
I've recently started a little renovation work on my trusty old Litespeed Tuscany, and have got a few little niggles that I'm trying to figure out if I should try to fix or not...
The frame is carrying some old but perfectly serviceable Arundel carbon bottle cages. However, two of the allen bolts now spin in the frame rather than come undone. I assume that getting them out / off will end in their demise, and the frame will need new rivnuts fitting by a bike shop?
Both the cable adjusters on the downtube cable stops are jammed. I'm assuming that they've galled into place. This is actually quite irritating as they actually would've come in quite useful recently (I had a couple of bad indexing days) and it's a pity that such a nice little bit of engineering is now stuck solid. I haven't actually tried really forcing them - would that be worth the bother? If they won't come unstuck, how much of a big deal would it be to get them replaced? I wonder if Enigma (who are down the road from me) might be able to do something like that.
It's one of the older ones with an integrated headset. Any suggestions for replacing the Cane Creek one with anything that might be better (longer lasting or lighter)?
Thanks...
The frame is carrying some old but perfectly serviceable Arundel carbon bottle cages. However, two of the allen bolts now spin in the frame rather than come undone. I assume that getting them out / off will end in their demise, and the frame will need new rivnuts fitting by a bike shop?
Both the cable adjusters on the downtube cable stops are jammed. I'm assuming that they've galled into place. This is actually quite irritating as they actually would've come in quite useful recently (I had a couple of bad indexing days) and it's a pity that such a nice little bit of engineering is now stuck solid. I haven't actually tried really forcing them - would that be worth the bother? If they won't come unstuck, how much of a big deal would it be to get them replaced? I wonder if Enigma (who are down the road from me) might be able to do something like that.
It's one of the older ones with an integrated headset. Any suggestions for replacing the Cane Creek one with anything that might be better (longer lasting or lighter)?
Thanks...