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What about **bike **maintenance though? What's your view on that :)
I agree and I do try and follow that, but not always easy with young children. But this front derailleur fitting is just impossible to get right. I have a new cable, all the tools and still it just does what it wants which is usually falling off or refusing to shift in traffic. I now just stay in the big ring, too scared to change down. Which kind of defeats the purpose of having two rings