Ride into work for Tuesday, 15 Feb
Rode into work with only 1st, 2nd and 3rd gears working. Low gear was dead, high gear kept scraping on the chain so I was basically stuck in middle gear. Not a fun ride in, although I went faster than I expected.
I took the bike into the bike shop at lunch to get the rear cassette changed. The mechanic did it while I was there, saying it'd only take a few minutes. Then he checked the front derailleur and found the bolt and/or nut (I didn't hear which) had sheared the thread and the derailleur kept slowly slipping down. He fixed that by putting on a new derailleur out of the parts box, then realised a new cable would be needed so he threaded on a new cable. Finally he finished off tuning the derailleur until it worked perfectly. For this I was charged... $20. Gotta love the friendly LBS :-) I dropped down an extra $5 for the mechanic to get himself a drink with since he'd done such a good job.
Distance logged: 12.683km
Time: 39:13
Average speed: 19.4km/hr
Max speed: 59.1km/hr
Temperature: 1C
I took the bike into the bike shop at lunch to get the rear cassette changed. The mechanic did it while I was there, saying it'd only take a few minutes. Then he checked the front derailleur and found the bolt and/or nut (I didn't hear which) had sheared the thread and the derailleur kept slowly slipping down. He fixed that by putting on a new derailleur out of the parts box, then realised a new cable would be needed so he threaded on a new cable. Finally he finished off tuning the derailleur until it worked perfectly. For this I was charged... $20. Gotta love the friendly LBS :-) I dropped down an extra $5 for the mechanic to get himself a drink with since he'd done such a good job.
Distance logged: 12.683km
Time: 39:13
Average speed: 19.4km/hr
Max speed: 59.1km/hr
Temperature: 1C
posted by steve at 2/15/2005 02:02:00 pm
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