Originally Posted by Hitchy
.......I don't know...leave you blokes alone for 3 days & what do I come back to?.......a thread that has disintegrated into Taswegian's rabbitting on to Seppo's in NSW no less.......bugger me (let's not take things TOOO literally around here either!).....so I 've just managed to read 3 days worth of posts & I've gotta say I'm proud of you blokes........not a molecule of stuff that could be even vaguely accused of being interesting!.....Go you good things!........
now, onto the bad news....$350 later I've got the 486 fixed.....bent derailuer hanger & spoke, turned into bent derailuer, hanger,spoke & 4 bent chain links......cos Shimano won't sell ya 4 links will they!...bah...anyway, she's all better, 'cept for the scratch (sob)......does anyone round here speak japanese?....I wanna post the bent derailuer on Japanese EBay as "3 months old" etc, etc....get some of me money back off the bastards that caused the bingle in the first place!
Hitchy
Well, at least I tried Hitchy... threw a bit of ***** Tiger's way and he bit. Expat threw a bit of ***** my way... did I bite, Expat? Can't remember... Oh and rocky and I had a bit of fun somewhere else, coz nothing' was happening here.
Seems if you can't talk Italian bike frames, Beach Rd and other stuff... well, you're the lynchpin here.
By the way, heard today about how a bunch of your mainlander roadie mates came down here to do our Ash Dash "just to top off training for the start of the season". Apparently there's a video of the guys with their double chains rings and 20T big cogs doing big zig-zags to struggle to the top of Kaoota, then puking their guts up at the top. Sounds like a hoot.
Anyway, glad your baby is reasonably OK. Like the ebay auction plan for the der.