Originally Posted by
1983
Uh, ok. Wait, 40 years of experience and you've never come across fitting a 9/10/11 cassette in 126mm dropouts?
Who ever said that I lacked that knowledge? Surely not me.
Originally Posted by
1983
What was supposed to be impressive? You troll to be impressed? Huh?
He is the one who claimed 40 years of experience, I am obviously calling 40 consecutive years into question. Is there one of those silly animated emoticons for flying an airplane over one's head?
You might want to check your arrogance at the gate - and also work on your reading comprehension - it could use some improvement. I never said that I had no experience fitting a 9/10/11 cassette into 126mm dropouts. You seem to have mistaken me for the OP of this thread. I was simply responding to it, by saying that washers which could be used as spacers for the OP's desired purpose could be gotten at any Home Depot for well under a dollar.
And I never said that I WORKED as a bike mechanic for 40 years. I worked as a mechanic part time for about 2 years, from 1977-1978. Subsequent to that, I did work on my own bikes, and on friends bikes, and never had anything whatsoever to do with bikes or bicycling from about 1990 up to the middle of last year, when I picked it back up as part of the process of regaining my physical condition from having become obese in 25 years of working behind a desk.
What I said was I've been a bicycle mechanic for about the past 40 years, with a 25 year hiatus from 1990 until last year.