Oh Snap IV
03-10-09, 05:32 PM
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Oh Snap IV
It all breaks weenies. This AM it was the 3.5 year old D.A. front derailleur cage on my Six13.
I'm telling you, it's like keeping the GE Corporate Aircraft Fleet in the sky here at Pcad Velo.
I'm telling you, it's like keeping the GE Corporate Aircraft Fleet in the sky here at Pcad Velo.
03-10-09, 05:36 PM
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I had the chain on the big ring for most of the ride after this (it was a 45 mile interval workout). Then I got the chain onto the small ring for the ride back (after the last interval). On the small ring the bike was far more useable, the chain kept falling off without the outer cage on the big ring. Plus forget about big-ringing it up the 18% slopes of Mt. Doom.
Which hero of yours fell today? Arod? T. Geithner? Rush Limbaugh?
Which hero of yours fell today? Arod? T. Geithner? Rush Limbaugh?
03-10-09, 05:36 PM
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Man, that's why I'll never ride carbon fiber.
Oh wait.
Nevermind.
Oh wait.
Nevermind.
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03-10-09, 05:37 PM
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It's all that abuse it gets over winter on the nasty, salted, iced up roads. This stuff doesn't happen when you spend 4 months of the year in a climate controlled basement.
03-10-09, 05:41 PM
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I had the chain on the big ring for most of the ride after this (it was a 45 mile interval workout). Then I got the chain onto the small ring for the ride back (after the last interval). On the small ring the bike was far more useable, the chain kept falling off without the outer cage on the big ring. Plus forget about big-ringing it up the 18% slopes of Mt. Doom.
Which hero of yours fell today? Arod? T. Geithner? Rush Limbaugh?
Which hero of yours fell today? Arod? T. Geithner? Rush Limbaugh?
03-10-09, 05:43 PM
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It's not 45 miles of intervals you commie. It's more like 25-30 miles of intervals and a total ride of 45 miles. Today was ad hoc, what with the broken gears and all.
03-10-09, 05:43 PM
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10 minute fix.
Get down to Chester Velo Botique and pick up that $40 FD for $120 and your back out there.
Why are the filthy bike tires on the wood floor?
Get down to Chester Velo Botique and pick up that $40 FD for $120 and your back out there.
Why are the filthy bike tires on the wood floor?
03-10-09, 05:45 PM
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03-10-09, 05:53 PM
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How do you maintain a front derailleur? I spray lube on it once every week or so. That's about it.
You don't break anything because you don't ride your bikes 1/10 as much as I do you pathetic poser hoser.
I did a 25 mile recovery ride Monday in the hammering rain. I enjoyed it.
You don't break anything because you don't ride your bikes 1/10 as much as I do you pathetic poser hoser.
I did a 25 mile recovery ride Monday in the hammering rain. I enjoyed it.
Grandpa
03-10-09, 05:56 PM
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03-10-09, 05:57 PM
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That's a braze on front derailleur by the way. The clamp is Cannondale's.
03-10-09, 06:03 PM
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There are so many little grinder climbs around here that I spend a LOT of time in the small ring and in the 21-25 gears in the back. The other day I'm taking a slightly different route home and I was reminded why I never go that way, I spend thirty minutes humping up and down 5-18% grades varying in length from 100-1000 meters for the last 8-9 miles of the ride. It really is a little ridiculous around here, you have to really plan your routes to avoid that. Very hilly most places. Yet it's hard to find climbs over a mile long, those are the major routes over the big ridges just south of here.
03-10-09, 06:04 PM
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03-10-09, 06:06 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
Pcad - No-one will accuse you of being a shill for Shimano and I do admire your taste.. you do break the best parts.
03-10-09, 06:07 PM
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Making a kilometer blurry
Same thing happened to mine, but it was 6 years old. Aluminum fatigue.
03-10-09, 06:08 PM
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03-10-09, 06:15 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
03-10-09, 06:19 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
There's that Italian company that makes parts too...