Nope, defo no skinwalls sorry
Never liked them BITD and even blacked them out with marker
Well my friend came up trumps with the loan of the tools again
so the crown race seat was faced, the powder coating cut off really nicely leaving a perfect edge, no chips etc :
I checked the sizes of the race and seat - both were well within spec (not that there was a lot I could do about it if they weren’t
) so the M900 crown race was fitted :
Why I had the camera out and the light was still good, this is the area that had the largest repair :
And the dropouts I waited so long for
:
Quick picture of the tools I used incase anyone was wondering what they look like :
I managed to give the forks a quick polish before bed and as I was up early this morning (through no choice of my own
), I now have them fitted along with a single cantilever, it was so so tempting to be late for work …
As expected and as per the last time it was fitted, the XTR unit with loose balls is silky smooth
. I cut this steerer about 2mm longer than the original so it’s a better length now (to suit the ‘thick’ headlock) and its left me enough room to pinch one of the stainless shim washers off the ProFlex to stop the cup and headlock eating into each other. As the replacement forks are identical to the knackered ones (even manufactured the same year) they share the same design cantilever bosses and as such the recessed washers I made have fitted well without the need for adjustment / replacement
Sadly (for the bike build :-() I am off the Lemans ‘classic’ soon
so with only one spare day before I go I doubt its going to get finished until mid July
As people normally give a heads up to shops / suppliers that have done them a good service I thought I should mention Windridge Coatings (again
) and post up a scanned copy of a flyer they put in with the forks for me :
Now that I have ended up doing all the fork mods / repairs myself (annoyingly due to errors by other people within the bike trade :? ), Windridge is the only company that has been involved with any work on the rebuild other than myself
I reckon my standards are pretty high and the stuff they have done for me is top class, seems very tough, was completed when they said and in my eyes, a good price for the work / quality involved
Just to quote - I am not involved with Windridge in any way
they are not even local to me and I have to courier my stuff to them :-(
WD