A bad day for cycling

"Creature" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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by the time it had been fixed it had started snowing, so I got to do the
last leg of my journey through sleet. Urgh.

Altogether it sounds like you had a few near misses with the other traffic
and luck was on your side. I had a few hailstones to contend with myself
today (fortunately near home also). At least the contentious item I was
wearing on my head at the time took the brunt of most of it (along with my
cycling specs).

Paul M

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LBS was quite close by to where it snapped, and they stuck a new link in
the chain and adjusted the gears for a tenner there and then. Of course,

9 or 10 speed chain no doubt.I don't think they need a reason.
I never snapped an 8 speed.

TeryJ

TerryJ said:

9 or 10 speed chain no doubt.I don't think they need a reason.
I never snapped an 8 speed.

Actually, no. Wrong on all numbers! I think I've got a 7 speed cassette,
so presumably I've got the chain to go with it.

(There will now be a short intermission while I count the number of
sprockets on my cassette).

Yep, 7 speed.

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Yep, 7 speed.

Well. you must have phenomenal legs or, as you suggested, a fault
somewhere.I am still running 7 speed on two bikes and recently changed
a chain (£5 sram) that was missing 4 pulley wheels it was that worn
but still didn' t break.
TerryJ

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9 or 10 speed chain no doubt.I don't think they need a reason.
I never snapped an 8 speed.

I once snapped a chain on a 6 speed bike trying to go up a very short steep
hill. I removed the sheared off link and connected it onto the next good
one and the chain lasted another year until I ditched the bike!
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naked_draughtsman said:

"TerryJ" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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9 or 10 speed chain no doubt.I don't think they need a reason.
I never snapped an 8 speed.

I once snapped a chain on a 6 speed bike trying to go up a very short steep
hill. I removed the sheared off link and connected it onto the next good
one and the chain lasted another year until I ditched the bike!

I've not had a problem recently <touches MDF pretend wood hotel room
desk>, but I also always carry a pin extractor, short section of spare
chain (about 4 links) and a couple of SRAM powerlinks. The chain and
powerlinks fit into my puncture repair outfit box so take zero extra
room. There are some things you can bodge on a bike to get you home, but
a broken chain or badly damaged rear derailleur will leave you walking
unless you've got the right tools. For the weight and space they take up
I wouldn't be without them.

Matt

Creature said:

Today was not the best day for cycling.

I had an amusing encounter with a YVM (Yellow Van Man) last night.
He was having to reverse to let a car past the other way as the street
was made very narrow by parked cars, so I slipped past both van and
car and made my way up the hill. Once YVM got past the car he was
forced to follow me slowly up the hill coz there was no room to pass.
I could hear by the way he was driving that something was going to
happen and expected some kind of abuse.
T junction at top of hill I need to turn right so assume central
position, but YVM is determined to overtake so he ends up to right of
me, wrong side of road, blocking junction for anyone wanting to turn
in, despite clearly wanting to go left as he has left indicator on.
I hear shout from in van and assume abuse. But then he says "good
lights you've got there mate. I would have run you over back there if
I hadn't seen them". Me - "err, yes that's why I've got them!". Then
he finally twigs and says "are you turning right?". So I go right and
he goes left (from right).
Just made me smile.

TerryJ said:

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Yep, 7 speed.

Well. you must have phenomenal legs or, as you suggested, a fault
somewhere.I am still running 7 speed on two bikes and recently changed
a chain (£5 sram) that was missing 4 pulley wheels it was that worn
but still didn' t break.
TerryJ

before i took my old mountain bike into the local bike shop, to have it
changed from a mud plugger into a road zipper. its cassette was so badly
worn it was snapping chains within a few turns. slip slip snap...

but it was impressivly worn!

roger

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Yep, 7 speed.

Well. you must have phenomenal legs or, as you suggested, a fault
somewhere.I am still running 7 speed on two bikes and recently changed
a chain (£5 sram) that was missing 4 pulley wheels it was that worn
but still didn' t break.

He said his derailleur had been running rough for a few days - probably a
stuck or damaged link.

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On 20/03/2007 23:22, Matthew Haigh said,

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There are some things you can bodge on a bike to get you home, but
a broken chain or badly damaged rear derailleur will leave you walking
unless you've got the right tools.

On my MTB, I carry much the same as you, on the basis that if I smack my
derailleur on a rock, I can turn the bike into a single speed to get
back to base. If I was /really/ prepared, I would have two Powerlinks
in the chain, so I could remove a pre-determined length of chain quickly!

I haven't tried this in practise yet :-)

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On 21/03/2007 08:35, POHB said,

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T junction at top of hill I need to turn right so assume central
position, but YVM is determined to overtake so he ends up to right of
me, wrong side of road, blocking junction for anyone wanting to turn
in, despite clearly wanting to go left as he has left indicator on.
I hear shout from in van and assume abuse. But then he says "good
lights you've got there mate. I would have run you over back there if
I hadn't seen them". Me - "err, yes that's why I've got them!". Then
he finally twigs and says "are you turning right?". So I go right and
he goes left (from right).

Well, I have to say that's different!

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Simon Brooke said:

He said his derailleur had been running rough for a few days - probably a
stuck or damaged link.

Possibly. The rear derailleur changing-arm (I'm not sure of the
proper name - hanger, perhaps?) has been out of alignment, so that if I
was in (say) gear 4 it wouldn't sit directly below the 4th sprocket. I can
imagine how this could lead to a breakage - any torque applied wouldn't be
applied evenly to the chain link, causing it to skew and thus to break.

But this is just guesswork.

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Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Creature
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To top it off just as I'm getting into the last 500 metres of my cycle
home my chain snapped. No idea why; I've only done about 700 miles on the
bike, and I got it at the end of November. The only thing I can think of
is that my rear derailleur has been a bit iffy lately. I was planning to
adjust it tonight after riding home - I thought I could do it outside
before setting off, but it was cold so I decided I could do the 2 miles
home first before tweaking it so I could do it in the warm. Fortunately my
LBS was quite close by to where it snapped, and they stuck a new link in
the chain and adjusted the gears for a tenner there and then. Of course,
by the time it had been fixed it had started snowing, so I got to do the
last leg of my journey through sleet. Urgh.

Nice - not. Commiserations on the chain. One of the many reasons I
like my Gazelle is the hub gearing - chain sits straight and neat in the
same place all the time, protected from road-muck by the chaincase. I
suspect most here would balk at the weight though.

Map-reading-muppet just goes to show it's not only satnav and mobile
phones that people can use stupidly on the road. I've passed trucks on
the motorway where the drivers have a map spread out on their steering
wheels - scary.

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