Post by ecowitch on Aug 22, 2015 19:03:23 GMT
Hello!
I bought my Viscount new in the 70's and have loved it ever since, even though the gears were rubbish (even before I crashed it I could never get all 12 to engage and never could get it up hills - but that could be me!). After a minor crash into a wall in the early 80's there were only about 3 gears I could get it into - never the right ones either.
Sadly, I last rode it in that very cold winter in 2010, and put it away with road salt on it and only now have got it out again, but it clearly needs a TLC full service (for the first time in its life) before I take it out.
I know the front end from the back end of a bike, I know I can rub it over with scrumpled aluminium foil to clean up the corrosion a little and that's about it so I need to find someone who won't wreck it and whom I can trust to give it a good overhaul. I live in the middle of North Wales now (Denbighshire). Does anyone know how I can find someone who will be sympathetic to this bike and only do what needs to be done? I am wary of taking it into any old bike shop as I won't know if they are talking sense or not.
Thank you
(I can't upload photo's of it yet as I'm away from home for a bit but will as soon as I can)
I bought my Viscount new in the 70's and have loved it ever since, even though the gears were rubbish (even before I crashed it I could never get all 12 to engage and never could get it up hills - but that could be me!). After a minor crash into a wall in the early 80's there were only about 3 gears I could get it into - never the right ones either.
Sadly, I last rode it in that very cold winter in 2010, and put it away with road salt on it and only now have got it out again, but it clearly needs a TLC full service (for the first time in its life) before I take it out.
I know the front end from the back end of a bike, I know I can rub it over with scrumpled aluminium foil to clean up the corrosion a little and that's about it so I need to find someone who won't wreck it and whom I can trust to give it a good overhaul. I live in the middle of North Wales now (Denbighshire). Does anyone know how I can find someone who will be sympathetic to this bike and only do what needs to be done? I am wary of taking it into any old bike shop as I won't know if they are talking sense or not.
Thank you
(I can't upload photo's of it yet as I'm away from home for a bit but will as soon as I can)
