Purple patch!

This month is the final part of the varied tales of woe on this subject of the worst bike buy I have ever made.

I have sufficient photographs to keep this particular misery going on for years, but I am sure you are as fed up with reading my moaning, so let’s draw a veil here!

There were a lot of parts that the previous owner had allowed to corrode and so these had to be replated. I use an industrial plating company in Bristol who do a cracking job, but they just do the stripping and plating, they’re not metal polishers. If you want a superior finish on zinc plating, it is wise to give parts a good clean up and ideally a quick polish. Because of the nature of the parts that are zinc plated, I don’t waste hours giving