What instructions?!
Had a Special Request from a certain friend, to show blow by blow photos of the triplet as it is assembled. So E. This is for you. (Would have done it anyway, but I like to make people feel special!)
No, there weren't any instructions! (Foreign language or otherwise!) I suppose the US company that shipped the bike to Lithuania for this beer company competition assumed that someone would know what they were doing when they put it together.
Marc discovered during the dismantling process, that the Lithuanian bike shop that had been called upon to help this guy put it together didn't really know what they were doing and had made a few mistakes. Lucky it never got ridden anywhere!
Anyway... Saturday 30th September:
Marc arrives home with the precious cargo. Barely time for the 'welcome home' hugs and kisses - he was straight into it (in between, as you can see from the streamers out front) watching the Swans lose the AFL grand final by one point... *sobs*
The wheels went in one half of the case... he even had to let tyres down to fit them in! (The case, incidentally, was one a mate at work was about to take to Vinnies (full of old clothes). The clasps were broken, but it was certainly useable, especially as Marc intended to tape it shut anyway.)
Tubing in the other half.. (and at KL he had to repack it with the few extra clothes he had taken for work.)
And the frame, and seats, and more bits, were in the carton... complete with screwed up Russian language newspaper (some of the pages raising Marc's eyebrows because of some rather raunchy photos - think Page 3 girl but more so). Sergej, the guy he was buying it from, helped him. They managed most of this without an interpreter - as Sergej's wife's friend (who had been helping out a lot with interpreting and translating leading up to this moment) had to go back to work. They did pretty well - despite the fact that Marc came away thinking Sergej had never seen electricians tape before - when it turns out he actually just wanted to know what it was called in English! Doh!
Hmmm.. looks like it could make a bike...
By dusk, he pretty much had it all together.. just waiting for daylight on Sunday (and getting it back out of the shed) to take a decent photo. Marc is on a mission this morning to get a couple of new cable connectors (the dude in the bike shop over there hadn't assembled the 'travel agent' correctly (info for all you bike geeks out there)... and so when done properly, the cable came up short. So we weren't keen on taking it for a spin with only the front brake 'sort of' working.
Also missing is one little spring that went 'boing' off some cable and got lost in the grass. And he needed to get a bigger allen key for tightening up some other part... (Techo talk from Tracey here: could be revised when He proof reads this!..)
More photos to come today!!
No, there weren't any instructions! (Foreign language or otherwise!) I suppose the US company that shipped the bike to Lithuania for this beer company competition assumed that someone would know what they were doing when they put it together.
Marc discovered during the dismantling process, that the Lithuanian bike shop that had been called upon to help this guy put it together didn't really know what they were doing and had made a few mistakes. Lucky it never got ridden anywhere!
Anyway... Saturday 30th September:
Marc arrives home with the precious cargo. Barely time for the 'welcome home' hugs and kisses - he was straight into it (in between, as you can see from the streamers out front) watching the Swans lose the AFL grand final by one point... *sobs*
The wheels went in one half of the case... he even had to let tyres down to fit them in! (The case, incidentally, was one a mate at work was about to take to Vinnies (full of old clothes). The clasps were broken, but it was certainly useable, especially as Marc intended to tape it shut anyway.)
Tubing in the other half.. (and at KL he had to repack it with the few extra clothes he had taken for work.)
And the frame, and seats, and more bits, were in the carton... complete with screwed up Russian language newspaper (some of the pages raising Marc's eyebrows because of some rather raunchy photos - think Page 3 girl but more so). Sergej, the guy he was buying it from, helped him. They managed most of this without an interpreter - as Sergej's wife's friend (who had been helping out a lot with interpreting and translating leading up to this moment) had to go back to work. They did pretty well - despite the fact that Marc came away thinking Sergej had never seen electricians tape before - when it turns out he actually just wanted to know what it was called in English! Doh!
Hmmm.. looks like it could make a bike...By dusk, he pretty much had it all together.. just waiting for daylight on Sunday (and getting it back out of the shed) to take a decent photo. Marc is on a mission this morning to get a couple of new cable connectors (the dude in the bike shop over there hadn't assembled the 'travel agent' correctly (info for all you bike geeks out there)... and so when done properly, the cable came up short. So we weren't keen on taking it for a spin with only the front brake 'sort of' working.
Also missing is one little spring that went 'boing' off some cable and got lost in the grass. And he needed to get a bigger allen key for tightening up some other part... (Techo talk from Tracey here: could be revised when He proof reads this!..)
More photos to come today!!
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