More headway this week. Parts shipped to Brown's. Listing these, tagging, wrapping packing, all takes time. received the HD cam chain tensioner from KOS/M# Racing/ Mark Mcgrew. Nice piece:
Trivia: The part was wrapped in a newspaper, the Madison Courier, Madison IN! M3 is in Minnesota.
The CL77 I'm babysitting has 2 flat tires. This makes it real hard to push out every Sunday to make room to work. I had ridden down to DT Cycles on Sat AM on a scouting session. So I bot a tube from him, would've gotten two but he only had the one.
So we pulled the front wheel for beginners.
That tire is hard as rock, way past expiration date. Used bits of a thin plastic kitchen cutting board as rim protectors. They worked surprisingly well, slip right in, stay put.
Also used the tire "breezer" for the first time in decades:
Discovered rubber rim strip had broken down and came out in bits. This bike has a hole in the rims 180deg from the valve stem where a "rim lock" is supposed to go. The rim locks have been left out of this bike which leaves a hole in the rim. That's where the hole in the tube was.
The threads of many spokes were sticking up above the nipples and while they hadn't punched thru the rim strip, we couldn't put it back together that way.
Probably 15 had to be ground down to be flush. This bike was assembled/restored by a Honda mechanic, with a great reputation. Even so, keep this in mind. You just never know who will shortcut and when.
It was even more of a b--ch getting it back on. But with one wheel aired up its much more pushable. I'll tell the owner he needs new tires bad, but he won't be doing it till next spring.
Was notified the primary chains have been shipped. Got several parts to sell to restore the treasury.
