I soaked the new chain in Simple Green for a while, fished it out with a coat hanger, rinsed it off with water, let it dry, and used chain lube from the bike store. Then I used the tool that came in my Nashbar bike tool kit to punch out a pin in the old chain and pulled it off the bike. Hmm. It's one link longer than my new chain. I guess that means that I don't need to shorten the new chain any.
I cleaned up the chainring and cassette, greased them, installed the new chain and used the powerlink to close it. Boy, that was easy. And it rides just fine. In fact, I set another new speed record into work this morning. 50:15, beating the old mark by more than two minutes. Average speed of 14.3 which isn't bad considering I have to fight traffic. The new clipless pedals helped quite a bit today. They still scare the [censored] out of me going home though. Much more traffic then.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:24:34 GMT, maxo <[email hidden]>
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dgk said:
Now, I think I learn to replace cables.
Super easy, but if you don't have good cable cutters, you're up the creek...
I have a fair number of bikes floating around, so I bought the Park Tool CN-10. I also bought two teflon-coated pre-stretched inner brake cables and a cable+housing set that is for the derailers. These are all long enough to be for the back brake/derailers, I don't see an option for front ones. I guess I cut to fit.
My plan is to learn enough to fix up some of the older bikes filling up the garage and give them away. I get to learn and someone gets a bike. Seems like a fair deal.
I'm going to try to get to the Time's Up repair sessions but there is just so little time.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:24:34 GMT, maxo <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
dgk said:
Now, I think I learn to replace cables.
Super easy, but if you don't have good cable cutters, you're up the creek...
I have a fair number of bikes floating around, so I bought the Park Tool CN-10. I also bought two teflon-coated pre-stretched inner brake cables and a cable+housing set that is for the derailers. These are all long enough to be for the back brake/derailers, I don't see an option for front ones. I guess I cut to fit.
My plan is to learn enough to fix up some of the older bikes filling up the garage and give them away. I get to learn and someone gets a bike. Seems like a fair deal.
I'm going to try to get to the Time's Up repair sessions but there is just so little time.
I just learned how to change a chain too (after mistakingly completely removing a couple of pins!).
I just got an old C. Itoh bike for free from a friend. Ol' Sheldon Brown says that they were pretty crumby bikes from the 70s, so that means this was a crumby bike that sat in a shed for about 20 years. I totally took off the derailleurs and I'm gonna make it (some way or another) a single speed that I use for going around campus. The Civil Engineering building is only about a mile (tops) away from my house. The brakes themselves are fine, but the cables are rusty and brittle. If I figure anything out in the next two weeks, I'll drop ya a line.
Good luck! \\paul
-- Paul M. Hobson Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.underthecouch.org ..:you may want to fix my email address before you send anything:.
