Front Derailleur problems with the Ridley

[Tom Kunich]

Trying several avenues of repair it simply proved to be impossible since the problem is that the front derailleur hanger is a complex casting that ends up pushing the front derailleur out of alignment because it was inserted into the wrong position. So I am going to have to remove it by drilling out the four rivets and replacing it with a braze-on adapter. I have one sitting here so it is easy to do. I would fill the resulting empty holes with two part epoxy but I have found Gorilla Glue to be stronger and easier to work with. It isn't as if there will be any stress at this point anyway. It is just above the bottom bracket.

I guess all of these very cheap Helium frames are seconds of one sort or another. This is OK since this is a simple procedure and then you have 100% adjustability. This will have to wait since I spent too much time on it today. The sun didn't come out until noon so I couldn't ride anyway. But kneeling on cement trying to see up close is quite tiring at 78.

Ebay has royally screwed up the bid and accept for the Serotta but I managed to contact the seller outside of Ebay and she is sending the frameset today. I will NEVER use a "please offer a bid" on Ebay again. This was a special case anyway.

[AMuzi]

Sincerely, please don't do that.

Find some competent mechanic to diagnose your front changer
position and it that's unhelpful then contact Ridley for advice.
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[Jeff Liebermann]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:17:49 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Ebay has royally screwed up the bid and accept for the Serotta but I managed to contact the seller outside of Ebay and she is sending the frameset today. I will NEVER use a "please offer a bid" on Ebay again. This was a special case anyway.

eBay mangles the sellers and buyers names and requires that all
correspondence be performed via eBay messages. They do this to
prevent transactions outside of eBay, thus defrauding eBay of its
commission. However, if you're sneaky, you can communicate email
addresses and phone numbers via eBay messages. Of course, you are a
special case, which makes business ethics optional and at your
convenience.

"Offering to buy or sell outside of eBay policy"
<https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/payment-policies/offers-buy-sell-outside-ebay-policy?id=4272>

"Member-to-member contact policy"
<https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behavior-policies/membertomember-contact-policy?id=4262>

Serotta Frames sold or withdrawn (competed) on eBay:
<https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=serotta+frame&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&rt=nc&LH_Complete=1>
It's somewhat difficult to identify the frame since the only
description you've provided is that it's "my size". I found an
article where you sold on Craigslist a "58 cm Felt F55X", so I guess
58cm is your size.

This Serotta frame is 58 to 60cm and might be what you just bought:
"Serotta Fierte 58cm - 60cm frame, steel w/carbon stays. Needs
refinishing":
<https://www.ebay.com/itm/394747369993>
The listing ended yesterday, Mon Sep 25 at 2:35 AM. (I'm not certain
if that's PDT or UTC).

Apparently, you didn't negotiate a deal outside of eBay. Instead, you
probably negotiated a better price via eBay messages and then just
bought it via eBay. If you had completed the transaction outside of
eBay as you claimed, it would have been marked as "withdrawn by
seller" or something similar, as it was when you previously did the
same thing on a previous eBay purchase.

No bonus points for lying about eBay "screwing up the bid" and you
fixing it by contacting the seller. Why did you feel the need to lie
about the transaction? Lying didn't gain you any acclaim or special
attention.



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