Cycle Repairing and Adjusting
With a Chapter on building a Bicycle from a Set of Parts

INDEX American bracket axle, removine, 18 Armstrong three-speed hub. 135- 138 Back forks and back stays, cut- ting, 98 Ball head, clicking in, 32. 33 Bearings, cleaning, 27, 28 Borax for brazing, 102 Bowden brake. 149 Bracket axle, American, remov- ing. 18 ■---, bottom, keeping dust from, 30 ---- lugs, brazing, 99 ---- spindles, truing, 145 Brakes, 35 Brazing bracket lugs, 99 • --bridge joints, 98 • --, hints on, 102-104 • -- in new tube,* 147 ---- joints, 103 • --, materials for, 102 ---- tubes, 94-98 Bridge tubes, 95 Brooks’ saddles, 37 B.S.A. brakes, 35 ---- crank bracket and chain wheel, 21 ---- handle bars, 33 •—r hubs, 17, 138-141 Building cycle from standard fit- tings, 86-105 Chain, adjusting, 27 ---- bolt, examining, 25 ----, cleaning, 25, 26 • --, determining length of, 23 ---, lubricant for. 26 ----, roller, 23, 24 ----, shortening, 24 Clutch, free-wheel (see Free- wheel) Coaster hubs described, 109-117 • -- ----, removing sprocket from, 18, 19 Cold-vulcanising tyre repairs. 60 Cost of building cycle, 86 Cranks, overhauling, 21 Cup, replacing, in hub, 146 Cycle running to one side, 31 Badie coaster hub, 113 ---- two-speed hub. 121-124 Enamel, removing old, 65, 66 ----, rusting under, 62 Enamelling, 62-78 ---- cycle at home, 79-85 ----, trade method of, 70-75 Filing up joints. 104 Fork end faces, testing, 96 ---- -----, setting, 96 Forks, back, 94 ----, ----, fitting, 97, 98 ---- and stays, cutting, 98 -----, front, building, 100 ----, ----, repairing, 132 ----, ----, setting, 101, 144 ----, shortening, 144 ----, truing, 31 Frame, altering, 149 ----, building, 94, 96 ----, cutting down, 148, 149 ----, examining, 30 Free-wheel, adapting, to small hub, 19, 20 ----, cleaning, 29 ----, fitting, 19, 20 ----, ratchet, 108 ----, roller friction. 107 ---- slipping, 20 ----, types of, 106-109 Gear, determining, 118 Gears described, 118-141 ----, “ high ” and “ low,” 119 ----, three-speed, 124-141 ----, two-speed, 121-124 Gold lining, 85 Green and Houk hub, taking to pieces, 18 Handle grips, removing, 64 Handles, 35 Head, shortening, 145 ----, steering, adjusting, 33, 34 ---- tubes, fitting, 95 Hub. coaster (see Coaster) ----, fitting new, 17, 18 ----, overhauling. 17 ----, replacing cup in, 146 Hyde free-wheel clutch, 108 Die, spoke-screwing, 9, 10 Drawing, working, 88 Drilling rims, 143 ---- wood rims, 148 Dunlop tyres. 41 Joints, brazing, 103 ----, filling up, 105 Liners, 103 Lining paper, transfer, 84 151