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36 Trail Rider www.TrailRider.com Roach Resurrec on - Installment 2 All rightly then, I have been pecking away at the roaches fo- cusing on the tear down. Generally, tearing down a bike is a reasonably quick and easy task, take lots of photos and pull it apart component by component, bagging and tagging every- thing as you go. Unfortunately, given the extreme crus ness of these two beasts, it was just a li le more involved and started the day the bikes were dropped here. Just walked around with a can of Howes lubricant giving every exposed fastener a quick blast, then repeated the process over the next few days. Howes is one of those great old school products; a single can will last years and this stuff literally eats rust. The objec ve here is to pull this apart without ruining anything else. When doing a vintage tear down, with the excep on of con- sumable parts ( res, air fi lters, chains, etc.), I rarely throw any of the parts away. Too many mes I have tossed stuff that I considered crap at the me only to fi nd myself searching for the same "crap" a year or two down the road, so most of the junk lands in "just in case" boxes. Yup, I am indeed a pack rat! I admit it, but if I need a "whatever" off a `70's era Penton, I more than likely have one tucked away somewhere and for this eff ort, I will defi nitely be dipping into my junk collec on. Back to the tear down. As with every project, there have al- ready been more than a few surprises. I always go into these projects with an idea of how I hope things will go…problem free, yea right! Then the reality of working on rusty old stuff sets in. The fi rst issue that I did not expect was some major rot in the spine of the frame in Roach 2 which makes it eff ec vely useless as is. Certainly not a showstopper, but it looks like I will