RoAdRaGeR
05-10-02, 12:22 PM
Whats the best way to learn how to maintain and fix your road bike? Would you recommend taking a class on maintenance? Or just by a video or book on the subject to learn it? Any suggestions please.:confused:
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mike
05-10-02, 12:55 PM
You can take classes, but you will still need books as a reference.
Get a junker. Take it COMPLETELY apart, and put it back together.
Then ride the re-assembled bike 100 miles with tools along for the ride.
Get a junker. Take it COMPLETELY apart, and put it back together.
Then ride the re-assembled bike 100 miles with tools along for the ride.
RoAdRaGeR
05-10-02, 01:17 PM
I will probably take the courses, and buy some maintenance books, but the 100 mile thing, I don't know about that. I don't think I could possibly ever trust my maintenance expertise to take a piece of crap on a 100 mile long ride. Well anyways, thanks for the advice.:thumbup:
mike
05-10-02, 03:34 PM
Originally posted by RoAdRaGeR
I will probably take the courses, and buy some maintenance books, but the 100 mile thing, I don't know about that. I don't think I could possibly ever trust my maintenance expertise to take a piece of crap on a 100 mile long ride. Well anyways, thanks for the advice.:thumbup:
Oh, heck no. Sorry, I didn't mean for you to fix your first bike and then do a century.
What I should have said was cover 100 miles on the bike after you fix it. That could be 10 miles at a crack ten times or maybe ride around your block 200 times.
I will probably take the courses, and buy some maintenance books, but the 100 mile thing, I don't know about that. I don't think I could possibly ever trust my maintenance expertise to take a piece of crap on a 100 mile long ride. Well anyways, thanks for the advice.:thumbup:
Oh, heck no. Sorry, I didn't mean for you to fix your first bike and then do a century.
What I should have said was cover 100 miles on the bike after you fix it. That could be 10 miles at a crack ten times or maybe ride around your block 200 times.
RoAdRaGeR
05-10-02, 04:54 PM
hehe, im such a newbie...thanks for the info:roflmao:
mike
05-10-02, 09:29 PM
Originally posted by RoAdRaGeR
hehe, im such a newbie...thanks for the info:roflmao:
Nah, it's not that you are a newbie. I just didn't communicate well.
hehe, im such a newbie...thanks for the info:roflmao:
Nah, it's not that you are a newbie. I just didn't communicate well.
pat5319
05-13-02, 11:46 PM
get some old fart to show you
some of us old farts like to help people
ride all tuned up
Pat
some of us old farts like to help people
ride all tuned up
Pat