Ok, sometimes you have to tape your pickle (fork) to make things work. Got the one remaining manky old bumper insert off and fitted two good replacements. A right barsteward of a job with the rear splitter on this thing, but it does look much better for it.
Well, attempt #1 with the $0.00 dumpster-dive contactor was a bust, hummed like a 4 year old yelling into a box fan, but a sub-$10 DIN base icecube relay from the rainforest craptorium and I’m in business. Now my autodrain will no longer empty the tank when I turn the compressor off. Victory!
New, to me, barbecue is mostly cleaned up, need to get a new knob and a couple of other parts sorted out. Made up a batch of wings, it’s nice to have a little extra room to space things out.
After a bit of semi-delicate surgery to remove the epoxy (?) a previous caretaker had attempted to refit the broken barrel adjuster with, this thumbie is back in the swing of things, getting one step closer to the Norco being a bicycle again. Not a chance of finding an original, but at least it’s still a Campy barrel, with its companion spring from a C-Record rear derailleur.
In the stand today… I’m vandalizing a Norco. I feel a little bad, but not enough to stop myself. Kitting a Norco Rampage frame out with some Campagnolo MTB bits. Fits my normal M.O. cantilevers, rigid fork and thumbies. The shameful part? The frame was welded up with a 73mm BB shell, Campy MTB BBs in 73mm? Yeah, not so much. What’s a boy to do? It’s a 68mm shell now, and everything fits great, and no one will be any the wiser, unless they read deeply into TL DR territory on my IG post, or watch the video… https://youtu.be/V2ctB9ZrIng?feature=shared
