met up round a mates house last night for beers
a friend of mine brought his brand new haro FST around (1984) just needed the brakes dialling in and the chain fitting, and the cranks doing up.
ok first problem:
he has a set of dia compe fs880 brakes. the nut for the cable clamp bit is ALLOY
did up the front brake and it stripped before the cable was even tight. what a shit idea
now the next:
doing up the pinch bolts on his NEW redline flight cranks (double pinch). one of the bolts SNAPPED!! piss poor. on my redline prolines i did up the pinch bolts so tight i had veins popping out my head
and the last:
he bought a NOS powerlite stem. nice stem! but with very little effort he stripped the thread out of the first bolt that was being done up tight. this was done with a quarter drive small wrench with allen bit. piss poor again.
i have never seen such a weak stem. i tend to destroy the allen bit doing them up too tight.
and as for the pinch bolt, that was just pathetic.
