Okay, Im trying to absorb all this. The first thing, the bike has not hardly seen any rain at all. Its very very clean, you could almost say it looks new. The second, I did not replace the pin that was taken all the way out!! I thought I might be able to get around this? Im new to the maintence thing, however my 20 dollar bike book did mention this needed to be replaced if the pin came all the way out. So my question is, what affects will this have on my bike - can I ride it home tonight? Could this be part of the problem? thanks