Originally Posted by
veganbikes
Iride01 No rage or clouded ability or trying to score points. Simple realism and information not present at wally-mart. It would take a lot to get me to rage here and even getting mad is highly infrequent and getting mad at someone for not knowing something that they haven't had a chance to learn is just silly. It is quite true I don't suggest people pour money (which includes time as time is money) into a bike that simply isn't worth it and will end up with more problems and then someone says well I already have put this into it and then their "I don't want to spend money" bike turns into a lot of money spent and we could have stopped it early. In the medical field you want to try and stop the bleeding early so this is the bike equivalent of that.
You'll have to to put up with my flowery and overstated speak. It's a normal part of general conversation here where I live. I grew up with it. Don't take any offense.
Originally Posted by
maddog34
Note the thick, rounded PAINT in the pic? that is a likely source of the slippage, as is the low grade steel clamp plate that may be totally bottoming out before it clamps onto the cable enough.....
how do you propose those things be remedied?
my points are real.. i have worked on enough Kents to know that they are not a good choice for ANYONE, EVER.
Did I say anything against your points? I thought the same too about the thick looking paint. And I wondered whether the metal for the components and screws were made of softer cheaper metal or not. I didn't think that needed to be brought up again.
Remember I included myself in that group that only will buy better quality bikes. Though if I had young kids, I'd probably still buy them the <$100.00 bikes from the big box discount stores and just fix them as needed. The kids will outgrow or tear up any bike no matter how well built. So a new bike every year or two will be easy to do.
I still think that the OP's bike can be made to function properly. However it might be a continual thing to keep it working. The OP will have to decide at what point they wish to get better.
Till then, I think it's reasonable to tell the OP how to attempt to work with and fix what he has.