Me...
*midweek I organised a training ride for early sat morning.
*Friday lunchtime I remember that the indexing on my training bike is waaay out. I've no time to fiddle with it myself so I rush it to the lbs who promise to sort it... Great stuff!
*Friday evening get home from quiet pint and check bike over... Indexing still fucked.
*2300 spend hours trying and failing to fix indexing.
*0115 eventual success... reassemble bike and have quick test ride on turbo
*0130 shift from small chainring to large... CLUNK... Chain snaps and gets wedged in derailleur.
*FUCKSHITARSE... Chaintool is at my parent's.
*0145 move mudguards/bottle cages/SPD pedals etc to fixed gear beater... Pump tyres ready to ride tomorrow.
*0215 bitch on Lfgss
I love tinkering with my bikes (the main reason instarted reading this forum) but I'm evidently not a born mechanic. Normally i figure its good to learn from my mistakes but tomorrow the only thing i'm going to learn is how painfull 100km of corswold hills are with only 1 gear.
Me...
*midweek I organised a training ride for early sat morning.
*Friday lunchtime I remember that the indexing on my training bike is waaay out. I've no time to fiddle with it myself so I rush it to the lbs who promise to sort it... Great stuff!
*Friday evening get home from quiet pint and check bike over... Indexing still fucked.
*2300 spend hours trying and failing to fix indexing.
*0115 eventual success... reassemble bike and have quick test ride on turbo
*0130 shift from small chainring to large... CLUNK... Chain snaps and gets wedged in derailleur.
*FUCKSHITARSE... Chaintool is at my parent's.
*0145 move mudguards/bottle cages/SPD pedals etc to fixed gear beater... Pump tyres ready to ride tomorrow.
*0215 bitch on Lfgss
I love tinkering with my bikes (the main reason instarted reading this forum) but I'm evidently not a born mechanic. Normally i figure its good to learn from my mistakes but tomorrow the only thing i'm going to learn is how painfull 100km of corswold hills are with only 1 gear.
Balls.