My lesson was: if you sell a C&V bike, don't forget to put the shifting back on index for newbies.

Story:

I had bought an 89 Schwinn Traveler six months ago. I cleaned & tuned it up. I had been riding it some, but decided to move it on out. I had taken off the dork disk and had the shifting set to friction. I sell it to a college kid who takes it on a 5 mile ride and shifts it all the way up to 1st and instead of adjusting the trim, he just leaves it there. The rear derailer eventually decides to kick the chain into the spokes.

The limit stops were set up fine for index and I had never thought about check them for friction, but 1 broken spoke and 8 damaged ones later . . .

Anyway, I felt bad for not checking that and fixed the wheel for the kid, but in the future, I will leave the shifting on bikes that I sell to index and keep that dork disk on.