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

OVERHAULING A BICYCLE 35 Handles.—The handle grips should be examined, and, if found loose, removed and refixed. To refix, warm the handle-bar end in the gas, and melt a little solid-tyre cement into the grip and push home. Care must be taken not to get the handle-bar end too hot, especially if the grips are of celluloid or fitted with celluloid tips or ferrules, or they will be spoilt. Any superfluous cement which may show on the handle-bar may be wiped off whilst still hot with a paraffin rag. Another method of refastening handles is as follows : After removing the grips, a small quantity of glue should be poured inside them, and the grips turned about until the inner surface is covered with the glue. Then tip them upside down to remove the superfluous glue, and place them on the handle-bars. They must not be used until the glue has had sufficient time to set, or the grips will work loose again. Brakes.—Brakes should be examined for loose and worn parts, and adjusted and renewed where required. Probably new brake blocks may with advantage be fitted. Three of the many patterns of B.S.A. brakes are shown in Figs. 17 to 19. Mudguards.—A celluloid front mudguard may easily be broken by the foot catching in it when turning a corner quickly. It can be repaired by riveting a piece of tinplate 6 in. long by about 2| in. wide to the under-side of the guard. Holes should then be punched in the guard and the plate to receive the rivets ; usually about ten holes will be sufficient. The tinplate should be enamelled to