{"id":2336,"date":"2011-01-14T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2011-01-16T21:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:44:41","slug":"pruple-harry-polishing-headset-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2336","title":{"rendered":"Purple Harry Polishing &#038; Headset rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2339\" title=\"Purple Harry Polishing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/photo-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/photo-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/photo-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/photo-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/photo-400x533.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/photo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/11\/purpleharry.png\"><\/a>With temperatures back in sensible-land and my bike in pieces, I decided to have a go with the <a href=\"http:\/\/purpleharry.co.uk\/products_display?prod=5\" target=\"_blank\">Purple Harry polish<\/a> today before putting it all back together. After a little T-Cut on some scuff marks I gave the frame a good dose of polish, before leaving it to dry. I then used the bizarre two-fingered fleece glove provided to bring on the shine. Result! It is also meant to give the frame some protection and should be easier to clean next time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So on to assembly time. I got the bottom bracket back in OK,\u00a0but my headset was in a bit of a state. However, after soaking the races in petrol for a while and careful reassembly with some nice new grease it should last the season, definitely not indexed steering anymore!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to lose a few hundred grams with a few components from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcracer.com\/shop\/\" target=\"_blank\">XCRacer Shop<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcracer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">XCRacer<\/a> is <em>the <\/em>place, other than the\u00a0British Cycling\u00a0website,\u00a0to find out about Cross Country Mountain Bike Racing in the UK. It now has a shop specializing in light weight components and bling for racing wannabes. I&#8217;ve gone for a light weight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcracer.com\/shop\/viewproduct.php?productid=35\" target=\"_blank\">scandium handlebar<\/a> and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcracer.com\/shop\/viewproduct.php?productid=79\" target=\"_blank\">brake rotors<\/a>. Ill give them a review in a few weeks once they have been on the bike for a bit, but at first glance they seem very good value for money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/wp-admin\/%3Cbr%20%3E%3C\/a%3Ehttp:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/20110114-175643.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With temperatures back in sensible-land and my bike in pieces, I decided to have a go with the Purple Harry polish today before putting it all back together. After a little T-Cut on some scuff marks I gave the frame a good dose of polish, before leaving it to dry. I then used the bizarre &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purple Harry Polishing &#038; Headset rescue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-kit","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}