Can't stop tweaking things

kowalski [quote]David Casanova K The point I was trying to make though, is the minor tweaking, the constant desire to improve the bike a little. Change something that isn't quiet 'right' for something that for me feels a little better. Who cares who does it?

I hear you.

But surely if you don't maintain it yourself it must vary from "spot-on" when it's just been serviced to "ok" or "dodgy" when the service is due.

I'd have thought that would make more difference than swapping out minor components.[/quote]

I think I do things differently from how you perceive I do them.

I don't neglect my bikes between services, and I service frequently. What I spend on servicing bikes in a year most people spend on the bikes themselves.

And I can fix stuff, but I feel I'm too busy to and that I have other priorities. At the moment this is work, business travel, server upgrade, coding another site, upgrading Chifg.com, still making time for friends, two festivals coming up, and somewhere in this I want to be out riding. The very last thing I want to be doing is spending a few hours fiddling with my bike.

I want the end result and the thrill of riding it. Servicing it doesn't do it for me, but don't think that means I let the standard slide in any way, it just means I leave the things I haven't got around to to the guys in Cycle Fit.

And as I said in the first post, the bike is running perfectly. So I'm tweaking small things knowing that they have nothing big to do.

The small things are things I don't want to be bothered with doing. Like cutting down the steerer 1cm. And it makes sense to replace the spacers whilst it's being cut down, the stems already off. Bar tape is me being very lazy, but when the rest of the bike will look clean and sparkly, why not have that done too?

I just don't see what the big deal is I guess. To me it just makes total sense to get the shop to do this stuff.

i'm with david on this. i do all my own bike stuff and have invested in tools but i'm very busy at the moment and i have to prepare my mtb for a trip to the alps in a couple of weeks i'm changing cassette chain and chainring myself but bleeding the hydraulic brakes is a faff and i'm tempted to drop it down to my LBS and do something else with my time.

"Sno big deal, I only ask out of curiosity.

I wouldn't get my bike worked on by someone else, even if I could afford to. And I find it more hassle to take a bike to the shop and collect it than just do the work myself.

It's not like of got masses of time on my hands. I find it therapeutic to take a little time out and absorb my mind in maintenance tasks.

kowalski I find it therapeutic to take a little time out and absorb my mind in maintenance tasks.

That's what I find compiling web servers to be :)

David Casanova K [quote]kowalski I find it therapeutic to take a little time out and absorb my mind in maintenance tasks.

That's what I find compiling web servers to be :)[/quote]
Touche!

If I had a web server I'd take it to the shop...