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Pimp My Toolbox: May 2011

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Monday, 9 May 2011. UCI craziness and all that. Back in the dim mists of time, the UCI was responsible for making the rules under which we all race, and by and large, it did an OK job - alright, there were shortcomings in it's control of doping, and some of it's rules looked a bit bizarre, but at least it wasn't, as Leonnard Zinn is now pointing out, placing a tax on bike builders. Here is the text of the rules:. Http:/ www.uci.ch/templates/UCI/UCI2/layout.asp? Here's what I wrote on LinkedIn at the time:.

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Pimp My Toolbox: December 2009

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Tuesday, 22 December 2009. Life in the Deep Freeze. Well, OK, so it's not really *that* cold, but it is still only just hovering above zero in my workshop, so it is making it difficult to do quality work, it has to be said. The last few days have seen still more frenetic running up and down the M1 to and from the workshops in Chesterton, with a Campagnolo two-day training course delivered, a bevy of bicycles serviced at Longstaffs, as well as some promised deliveries from Campagnolo actually arriving.

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Pimp My Toolbox: April 2010

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Friday, 9 April 2010. So much to do, so little time. Yes, OK, I know, I've been away far too long again . Since my last post, I've worked fingers to the bone on London - Cannes (www.cycle2cannes.net -well done guys and girls! Run some training and accreditation in Northumberland for a super Sustrans project in Ashington (Go, Adam and Emma, Go! A Campagnolo course in Staffs and have done a couple of extra days at Longstaffs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Other places on the web you might fancy .

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Pimp My Toolbox: You've Never Had it so Good?

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Saturday, 20 November 2010. You've Never Had it so Good? When I started in the trade in the early 1980's, one of the most popular bikes on the market was the Peugeot Premiere 10, a ten-speed steel-framed sports bike. The bike had (in it's standard format as we received it in the UK, anyway), CLB or Weinmann side-pull brakes, steel 700c rims, alloy hubs, Huret gears with plastic non-indexed downtube levers and a steel seatpost. These numbers might not be bang on, but I don't think they're too far off.

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Pimp My Toolbox: November 2009

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Sunday, 8 November 2009. A Humdinger of a Fortnight. Once upon a time, I thought it would be waaaaaay cooooool. To be self employed. All my pals said "you'll be working from home, no commute time, you can take on work when you want, long holidays, blah, blah" and so it seems from the outside. So here's the last two weeks . Catch up on emails and a few phone calls, started re-write of Bottom Brackets section of our master course manual, bed about 23.45, absolutely cooked. Saturday - various admin issues, ...

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Pimp My Toolbox: UCI craziness and all that

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Monday, 9 May 2011. UCI craziness and all that. Back in the dim mists of time, the UCI was responsible for making the rules under which we all race, and by and large, it did an OK job - alright, there were shortcomings in it's control of doping, and some of it's rules looked a bit bizarre, but at least it wasn't, as Leonnard Zinn is now pointing out, placing a tax on bike builders. Here is the text of the rules:. Http:/ www.uci.ch/templates/UCI/UCI2/layout.asp? Here's what I wrote on LinkedIn at the time:.

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Pimp My Toolbox: February 2011

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Thursday, 17 February 2011. Old meets new . In keeping with my new year resolution to write a blog entry daily (ahem! And as it's a mere week since I last typed something, I thought I'd share a couple of pretty pics of what we are up to in the pimpmytoolbox workshop at present . We are currently working on two builds for one gentleman, a lovely Daccordi steel reno, in Oria RANF, Campag / Cinelli throughout. That's the gunsmoke fade jobbie - as the original paint, circa 1985. Friday, 11 February 2011.

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Used Motorcycles and Scooters. Motocross, Kids Bikes and Quads. Our Racing Team and Links. MOTOCROSS SCOTLAND, WE RUN A RACE TEAM, WE PREPARE ENGINES AND SUSPENSION FROM. AAA MOTORCYCLES, MOTOCROSS DEALERS SHOP,. PAISLEY, GLASGOW, RENFREWSHIRE, STRATHCLYDE, SCOTLAND. 07740 475561 0141 849 1718. Photo by Ray Chauss. TOUGH START TO MOTOCROSS SEASON. ADAMSON MOVES INTO THE PRO RANKS. Despite a couple of crashes he came home in 25. Of March followed by the first round of the Maxxis British Championships in C...

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Pimp My Toolbox: It's all too damn' rigid ...

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Sunday, 10 April 2011. It's all too damn' rigid . I've decided I'm going to start a campaign to get us back to the days when we had some choice in the matter of "rigidity"! What has sparked this off? Well, I am doing a Mondiale bike build for a very small, petite young lady. We can get around the problems caused by her low body mass by using a small-diameter tubed frame to some extent, but it's at the frame and forks level that the problems start . Can I hell. Apparently we need 31.8mm ferrules n...Seatp...

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Pimp My Toolbox: May 2010

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Monday, 31 May 2010. What's been keeping me away from the blog? Well, it's been busy . We have devolved a certain proportion of the Campagnolo warranty business out to the wholesalers now, but a proportion still fetches up at our door. Hopefully all of that will mean a better service to end-users, now! We are running two days of courses for National Bike Week in the third week of the month at Manchester Velodrome - a one day introduction to cycle mechanics, and a half-day introduction to track bike mecha...