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Arthur Clune
Guest
Somewhat mixed....
Out on the summer bike for hte first time this year. Nice, shiny, shiny,
speed speed. And the weather was warm enough for no overshoes, hats,
6 layers of termals etc for the first time in ages.
Then I snapped a spoke. Which wouldn't normally be a huge problem except
I was using a 22 spoke rear wheel (which of course snapped on the drive
side). Some lateral thinking later, I took the piece of electrical tape
marking the height of my seatpost and used that to stap the broken spoke
to the one next to it. Then I released the rear brake totally and rode
home slowly. It's amazing how huge a buckle you get when 1/22nd of
your spokes go! Still, nothing was actually rubbing after I'd finished
fettling.
So this afternoon has been spent working on bikes in the yard, swapping
over tyres (that I'd just put on the posh wheels yesterday...) onto some
nice 32 spoke, 3x handbuilt wheels. Reliability here I come!
I also popped into my LBS on the way back to show them the wheel and get
them to order a spare spoke. Apparently I should expect it to be about £8
a spoke. Ow!
Arthur
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Out on the summer bike for hte first time this year. Nice, shiny, shiny,
speed speed. And the weather was warm enough for no overshoes, hats,
6 layers of termals etc for the first time in ages.
Then I snapped a spoke. Which wouldn't normally be a huge problem except
I was using a 22 spoke rear wheel (which of course snapped on the drive
side). Some lateral thinking later, I took the piece of electrical tape
marking the height of my seatpost and used that to stap the broken spoke
to the one next to it. Then I released the rear brake totally and rode
home slowly. It's amazing how huge a buckle you get when 1/22nd of
your spokes go! Still, nothing was actually rubbing after I'd finished
fettling.
So this afternoon has been spent working on bikes in the yard, swapping
over tyres (that I'd just put on the posh wheels yesterday...) onto some
nice 32 spoke, 3x handbuilt wheels. Reliability here I come!
I also popped into my LBS on the way back to show them the wheel and get
them to order a spare spoke. Apparently I should expect it to be about £8
a spoke. Ow!
Arthur
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Arthur Clune PGP/GPG Key: http://www.clune.org/pubkey.txt
Don't get me wrong, perl is an OK operating system, but it lacks a
lightweight scripting language -- Walter Dnes