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Cheers mark will try that tomorrow when I'm back in the workshop!

Tried that Jamie. The ally hub expands more than the steel sprocket so it only makes it tighter. I tried heating it up and then rapidly cooling it down, in order to break the seal, nadda.

It doesn't have the lockring no haha. Wish it bloody did. Sounds good, was trying to work out a way of chilling it, it's been bathing in gt85 since last night, will have another go later

I've put a burn on it to make it fixed for removal. Flipped the wheel over in the frame and put a burn on non drive-side, so when you pull down it un-do's the sprocket. Echo hub

http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/media/guides/maintenance_freewheel_and_sprocket_removal/m1.html We tried the method Adam uses here, but clamped to stupid tension... and the chains snapped several times over. I get what you mean about the pinch technique now, but are you saying to wrap the chain around and then drop that into the vice rather than the 'trailing' ends?

Can you explain the 'pinched link trick' more? Do you basically mean leaving a link gap between the sprocket and the vice so that it pinches back on itself?

Sprocket's on the hub, i'm going to do that I think, worth a shot. Good shout

I agree, wish I had a tank chain. Just wondering if anyone has any miracle methods? This is definitely better than it being in a vice, would wd40 help? Can't see it doing much

the frame is a write off anyway, if the chain's snapping what difference would a scaffold bar make?

tried that earlier, pulled straight out

Yeah ideally

Tried for 2 hours in a vice, all chains snapped. Even the tarty boys recommend another frame, it's just a spare anyway by the way it's the sprocket on the rear, hence the middleburns

Anyone got any ideas how to get this sprocket off? Tried several chains, right through to a KHE collapse. It wont budge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQaYJO0YBA have a look at the vid to see the method we're trying.

These are gorgeous frames, real nice build as well! Might have to sell the echo to fund one of these babies

committed to front then.

I'll bare it in mind

sorry man, bike is now for sale though

VERY bent

Just waiting on some cousts for the 24. I have a lot of spare bars sitting in my flat but the tensiles seem to ride a lot nicer than rockbars and trialtechs on it. Granted... The try alls were stunning on the limey but it's not getting any use at the moment.

Got both my bikes pretty much to a standard I'm happy with, still the odd bits I want here and there. They both ride incredible, the limey is at a nice weight now with a ti bb and such. The echo is the best bike I've ever owned, no bike has ever helped me go bigger at such a rate. The limey is now on the sideline excuse the poor quality pics, iphone and tungsten don't mix well Cheers for viewing

warm up had me in stitches

Cheers guys. Yeah you hit the nail on the head, I thought the original gold one was the Limey 3 and the gunmetal was the 320. Pardon my French.

No no the gold one

Anyone happen to know the geo and weight of the Limey 3 mod frame? Not the 320... The gold one. Thanks in advance

Over the years i've gone through tonnes of stuff 2 onza t-pro frames, one cracked on chainstay the other snapped on downtube! stripped maggie threads in a python, a gu and a planet-x, cracked an onza ice on both dropouts and on bottom of downtube, stripped several pedal threads, snapped a un53 bb, rounded a few pairs of cranks, mostly non driveside, snapped a try all rear rim, knackered my first ever onza sealed hub, countless chain snaps (but not for nearly 2 years now touch wood) killed a profile, got through a couple of freewheels, god knows how many maggie levers i've cracked, as well as split crossovers, snapped a pair of try all forks and a pair of urbans, snapped a tensile crank!