It is now looking more like a ukulele and less like bits of wood.


It is now looking more like a ukulele and less like bits of wood.


My Giant Halfway is wobbling at the hinge. Not nice to ride and once this starts it only gets worse. There is a video on YouTube on repairing this, but the information there is incomplete so I thought this might be useful to share.
First step is to separate the two halves of the frame. This means removing the gear and rear brake cables before removing the pin. Not too hard, especially if you are going to replace the cables which is something you’ll almost certainly need to do anyway.
Getting the bushings out is the big problem. The inner bushings pulled out by inserting an 8mm tap and pulling – this is probably where the wear is – around the bushings in the frame rather than the pin. Anyway, easy.

I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t worth using the existing soundboard – it just doesn’t ring nicely. So I tapped all my lumps of wood to find one with a decent sound. The best was some mahongany.
