Centurion Lemans Bottom Bracket Lug

We took in an interesting challenge last week. A very tall gentleman named Norm brought us his beloved Japanese built Centurion with a broken bottom bracket shell. He wasn’t ready to say goodbye to old trusty because it has been difficult throughout his life to find a frame that fits him well. Tall folks and small folks will feel the sting of this sentiment all too familiar.

Norm asked us to keep it on a tight budget, and he wanted it to be strong enough to get him through one more decade of hammering on it. We decided because replacing the lug was out of the question, so adding a fillet and fabricating some gussets would get the job done and hit the price range he needed to. We left some of the finishing work for Norm to do on his own, but we were pretty pleased with the outcome.