the tinker
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
A true story:
At my pals house[fellow bike nut] and he had set 4 or 5 complete 26 inch. 1970s Schwinns out on the curb for the junkers. Noticing they all had nice grips on them I asked him," Not saving anything, not even the grips?"
Nice green, gold and black ones. His reply was that he just did not have the time to be messing with them.
I asked him for a 7/8ths. open end wrench and a hammer... maybe it took 5 seconds per bike.. two hits maybe three and they are off. I put a little tape on the open end of my wrench so I don't scratch the bars on a bike I care about.
In all these years I have only damaged one grip, and it was really old and stuck.
Yes there are safer ways and by all means use them, but when you are in a hurry with no hot water, no air compressor......and you don't feel like carting home another junker...
My pal looked at me and said "holy ----!
At my pals house[fellow bike nut] and he had set 4 or 5 complete 26 inch. 1970s Schwinns out on the curb for the junkers. Noticing they all had nice grips on them I asked him," Not saving anything, not even the grips?"
Nice green, gold and black ones. His reply was that he just did not have the time to be messing with them.
I asked him for a 7/8ths. open end wrench and a hammer... maybe it took 5 seconds per bike.. two hits maybe three and they are off. I put a little tape on the open end of my wrench so I don't scratch the bars on a bike I care about.
In all these years I have only damaged one grip, and it was really old and stuck.
Yes there are safer ways and by all means use them, but when you are in a hurry with no hot water, no air compressor......and you don't feel like carting home another junker...
My pal looked at me and said "holy ----!