I'm not sure why, its the first time I've put it out there.
I just imagine there must be other options. Maybe this could be a problem particular to eccentrics, or an associated vulnerability. Im trying to explore a variety of solutions.
The mechanics I've been speaking to have suggested shims.
Thorn / SJS Mechanics?
i was communicating with Dave about it for a while until he was all out of ideas. He didn’t answer the last 2 emails i sent him so I stopped sending him.
i had been in contact with andy nomad designer and test pilot about other matters but he didnt answer any of the emails i sent him on this clicking topic. again, i just stopped emailing.
ive taken it to a few *star* mechanics gruppo peloton mamil. These guys take the bike, take the money, but dont fix it. take it back to them, and they offer to try again (no guarantees) but want money up front, and can’t guarantee how long they'll have it or how much it'll eventually cost me. Those beards are costly to coiffure. Then there’s the LBS boys on the corner who continually wont take money because they cant fix it. I stopped taking it to them, they’re just losing money on me and I can see they’re doing it tough anyway.
now im going to free community bike workshops run by FT bike mechanics in their time off (LBS, above). learning hands on skills, fixing up donated bikes to give away to the needy. week after week i go back, and they know then that the bike is still clicking despite what we tried the week before. They call me mr clicking and my theme song is “thorn in my side”. Can you ever not get a song out of your head. I shouldn’t really be there because I must seem like the poor little rich boy with the expensive new imported bike that’s causing hassles. Still there’s something about seeing all those rejected and abandoned bikes left on roadsides come in by the truck load, get roadworthy, and get back out on the streets under people’s bums where they belong. The turnover is something to be seen. I love it how some people see old bikes as rubbish, and others just see the potential, the heritage of engineering, salvaging nearly everything that went into the complex original manufacture, even though it probably did originally come out of k-mart. the only thing these guys want is to see more people riding. It was funny a couple of weeks back the old boy came out of his shipping container ‘office’ in his greasy dustcoat with the pens in the pocket, (picture sid james but minus the gags) disparagingly looked at me, then the bike, then me again and candidly retorted: “oh will you just throw that piece of rubbish out, it’s crap!!” the rest of us just looked at each other and practically wet ourselves.
apart from that course I’m consulting this forum, which i am finding very helpful.
