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If your having trouble shifting and changing gears on your bike it could be caused a bent derailer hanger. They get bent from crashes, falls, and traveling but it can be easily straightened out with the right tools. If you're in the Dallas area and you need your bike looked at give me a text, call or email at 614 562 6529 or [email protected] my name is Brett.

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Bought a bike online and need it assembled? I can do that!

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Upgrading the derailers and shifters on this classic rig

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These twenty year old shifters have been upgraded to a smooth shifting all in one unit!

If you're having issues with shifting or lots of noise coming from your rear derailer you could have a bent derailer hanger.

It happens when you run into something, if you load your bike into the car incorrectly, or after your bike gets knocked over.

I can fix it and get your bike shifting like new again!

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Incredible vintage frame

This Univega Nuovo Sport is in excellent condition. It was kept in a garage and is rust free. There are some nicks in the paint that you would expect from a vintage bike. The frame is lightweight tange steel and the rims are lightweight alloy which is a nice upgrade from the usual chrome plated steel vintage bicycle rims.

The bike has been restored back to a new glory! I have greased all the bearings in the wheels and the bottom bracket along with putting brand new brake cables and gear cables in new cable housing. The white wrap on the bars is new as well. The tires are lightly used but aren't dry or cracked. Lots of life left in them.

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This is some nasty old dryed grease gunk from this 80's Univega Nuovo Sport road bike I'm restoring and it is just a caked up mess. The top 2 photos you'll see the before and after photos of a bottom bracket cup and bearings that are just sludged up with rotten grease.

The bottom bracket is a little spindle that turns your crank arms when you pedal and is an important in getting the most efficiency out of your bike.

Let me put it his way. It's a lot easier to pedal when you're not doing it through 30 years of old tar.

Also, a lot of times you'll have bikes that are super squeaky when you pedal, those ones have run dry. In the Texas heat grease has a tendency to melt out of a bike and then you're dealing with metal on metal inefficient friction.

The bottom left photo is the inside of the hub of a 30 year old bike that was never serviced.

The hub is the very center of the bike wheel and the bearings inside it are what makes the wheel spin. it's what your fork rests on and once again this is an area where you want a slick and greasy situation in order to get the most out of your bicycle!

It's great to find a cherry bicycle that's been sitting in a garage but if it's not serviced properly it's missing out on its potential.

Keep riding!

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