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Dane Jackson
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Tom Keats <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (Tom Keats) wrote:
>>
>> I hear freehub axles are less prone to bending or
>> breaking. If that's so, I guess I could use an updated
>> wheelset, myself.
> Guess what happened to me today.
> Yup.
This is the same phenomenon that occurs when you get a
brand new pump. You are almost guaranteed to get a flat
the next day.
> Fortunately I was able to scrounge a spare axle out of the
> heap of parts. I'm swapping-in the cones from the busted
> axle right now. I didn't even lose any bearing balls.
It's good to have a spare parts box/closet/room.
> There's another current thread titled "A humbling ride".
> Leading a crippled bike home for 30 blocks is sure an
> humbling walk. 'Specially when lots of other riders are
> blithely breezing by.
I dashed down to the Seattle Bike expo on my grocery bike (
a fairly unattractive old french road bike (nice lugs
though) ) this weekend. Of course I was in such a rush to
dash out I didn't have any patches/ tire levers/tubes.
Guaranteed flat tire, delivered.
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well-used door needs no oil on its hinges. A swift-flowing
steam does not grow stagnant. Neither sound nor thoughts can
travel through a vacuum. Software rots if not used.
These are great mysteries. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of
Programming"
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (Tom Keats) wrote:
>>
>> I hear freehub axles are less prone to bending or
>> breaking. If that's so, I guess I could use an updated
>> wheelset, myself.
> Guess what happened to me today.
> Yup.
This is the same phenomenon that occurs when you get a
brand new pump. You are almost guaranteed to get a flat
the next day.
> Fortunately I was able to scrounge a spare axle out of the
> heap of parts. I'm swapping-in the cones from the busted
> axle right now. I didn't even lose any bearing balls.
It's good to have a spare parts box/closet/room.
> There's another current thread titled "A humbling ride".
> Leading a crippled bike home for 30 blocks is sure an
> humbling walk. 'Specially when lots of other riders are
> blithely breezing by.
I dashed down to the Seattle Bike expo on my grocery bike (
a fairly unattractive old french road bike (nice lugs
though) ) this weekend. Of course I was in such a rush to
dash out I didn't have any patches/ tire levers/tubes.
Guaranteed flat tire, delivered.
--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g A
well-used door needs no oil on its hinges. A swift-flowing
steam does not grow stagnant. Neither sound nor thoughts can
travel through a vacuum. Software rots if not used.
These are great mysteries. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of
Programming"