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pickle:
cool!  it's all good mate!  get some photos up as well!  :daumenhoch:

macmark:
Well, here she is. All she needs is air in the tyres and the rear brake sorting out. :-\




Now, does this rear brake setup look right to you lot? It's all only finger tight at the moment. I don't want to start cutting cables just yet. :LolLolLolLol:






Cheers.

Mark

TwoBobRob:
Others will disagree, but you can chuck that plastic bit in the bin.....  aside from that,  look again at the straddle cable hanger and you'll see that the single cable can actually sail through it in a nice straight line which will help your braking no end.


Aside from that , it looks good   :)   oil them cables if you haven't already   ;)


There's a lot of tinkering to be done with the gyro and cables, but we'll get to that if your brake isn't as good as you'd like.

macmark:
Ok, got everything sorted apart from air in the tyres and this mother f*cking gyro. It's getting right on my t1ts! I'm not a stupid fooker and I've stripped and rebuilt my fair share of bikes bitd but this thing has got me mad. The poxy instructions that come with it are no use, they keep going on about nickels and dimes and bearings but don't explain what part is the bearing. :rant:

Anyone with any knowledge of SST gyros in the East End fancy coming and having a go at it for me? I'll make it worth your while, beer/tea/coffee and food on tap and I'll throw in a free t-shirt of your choice.

Someone help me. :LolLolLolLol:

Mark

TwoBobRob:
Well, I'm in Romford......

From the photos, it doesn't look bad at all.  Just needs tweaking probably.  The bearing is the spinny roundy bit that just hangs loose and the cable nipples go into.

The trick is to wind the cable adjuster on your lever all the way in (so the cable feels slack) and do the same on the adjuster on the top cable.

Then wind the two top adjusters on the gyro out to their highest point and lock them off.

Then wind the bottom two adjusters out to their lowest point and lock them off.

So now you have the biggest gap possible between the upper and lower bits of your gyro.

Then wind the single adjuster nearest the straddle cable all the way in, so its at its loosest.

Now sort out your straddle cable and the little silver hanger so the single cable runs straight through it nicely and hangs out the bottom.

Be sure to pull some cable through if you need to loose some slack.

Now adjust your brake just like the old days with the single adjuster on your downtube closest to the straddle.

Go back to your lever and use that adjuster ONLY to take any remaining slack out of it.

Any further adjustments should only be made down on the downtube nearest the straddle.  


That should sort it out.  Oil cables,  deglaze pads and clean rims.  Go ride!


It sounds like a bollockache, and it is.....  but gyros work just fine once they've been teaked a few times.  Can take a bit of patience   :)


PM me if you can't be arsed to go through it and I'll pop round sometime.

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