Originally posted by Steele-Bike
I work on my bike up to the point where I break something. Then I usually continue to work on it until something else breaks. Then after all that I ask a friend what he thinks could be the problem, and then after I break one more thing, I bring my bike into the shop. That is unless I think I can fix it.
That sounds familiar, when i started repairing my bike, i didn`t know much about the technical aspects.
I`ve made mistake after mistake, suchs as cleaning your cassete with thinner while it`s on the wheel, all the dirt right in to the bearings!, trying to fasten your stem and overtight it, a new chain on the old cassete and go on.
But i learned a lot from my mistakes and i`m not ashamed.