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Wheel upgrade and a rebuild today. Winter this year seemed to take its toll and rotted all the spokes. The old wheels were running badly out of true, but the spokes were so rotten they would have snapped if I’d tightened them. Figuring I’d struggle to find the time to re-spoke them, I decided to just buy another set of wheels.
The whole bike was looking a bit worse for wear tbh. The chain was looking equally rotten, cables all attacked by salt and the rear brake jamming on. Partially my fault because I’d just been riding the **** out of it but not really doing much in the way of cleaning or maintenance. So today I managed to strip it down and clean and lube everything and swap the wheels.
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