Wesley36

I, for one, mostly just stick around to steal workout ideas from Shovel (although, in all seriousness, Shovel has given me some very helpful training advice)

revchuck 

Great news!

shovelhd

That's very kind of you, thank you.

Now the whole world knows why you suck.

revchuck 

Wesley36

Aspiring to mediocrity! One day I'll get there...

Wylde06

So you are a triathlete?

Wylde06

twss

jsutkeepspining

How do you think I'm paying for Georgetown?

bmcphx

I gave my bike its first bath today and have a couple observations.

1. Bikes with smaller diameter tubes are way easier to clean. My madone had very little clearance behind the crank and around the bottom bracket so it was always dirty.
2. Bass boat black is my new favorite color.

echappist

Selling the silver spoon you were born with?

misterwaterfall

I was going to say selling something, but usually a little spoon action costs extra

Ygduf

bitter, much?

aaronmcd

Bike in the shop, needs over $500 (including some inflated bike shop prices).
New chain, cassette, rim, spokes and bottom bracket.

revchuck 

Bummer about the cost, but you have been riding the hell out of it.

A couple of recommendations: First, get a chain wear gauge, a chain breaker, a cassette removal tool and a chain whip. These will let you check the wear on your chain and change it out when it's time, and remove and replace cassettes. Chains and cassettes are much cheaper on line - I got two Ultegra ten speed chains for $20 each, and the last 105 ten speed cassette I bought was ~$35. Learning how to do these is about 2-3 beers' worth of time with a buddy.

Second - get a second bike. A 6-7 year old CAAD9 would be a great choice, as would an Allez with the E5 frame. It'll cost less than you're paying for the repair bill. Take the measurements off the Cervélo and apply them to the second bike and you're in business. Ride it when the weather's going to be nasty, or for a commute, or if you're going to hit some gravel, or when the Cervélo dies again.

Also, hopefully the shop is rebuilding your wheel with stronger components. IIRC, you've had that bike less than a year. A rear wheel (I'm guessing that's the one that died) should last at least 10k miles.

bmcphx

10k conservatively, the Reynolds I was running before were my every day wheels and I'd racked up over 20k and still were as true as day one.

topflightpro

I was just about to email you asking to hook me up with a free SRM... until I read past the ellipses.

gsteinb

oh. :/

spectastic

need a new hub?

I never go to the bike shop, unless I need simple things like cables that are too cheap to order online. Last time I was there, I needed a chain for the weekend, and I was charged $54 for a chain, only to find later that I can get an ultegra chain for $28 on ebay.

never worked with BB's before, but it's just pressing in the bearings right? that shouldn't be difficult. building a wheel might be more tricky, since you have to keep track the turns on all the nipples.

but at least it's in trusted hands. and you live in the bay area. it's just a drop in the bucket for you

echappist

nope, pressfit bb requires special tools; i thought otherwise but know better now...

TheKillerPenguin

BB isn't like, hard to work on, you just need to be careful since (assuming you've got press in bearings) it's easy to press bearings in at an angle if you don't have the proper tools.

Not that any of this helps at this point though, considering your bike is already in the shop. I think we should rub it in more so you feel as bad as possible about spending all that money.

If you worked on your own bike you could spend the spare money on a flight to Colorado and work on your bike there in between ski runs. Or you could buy like 500 lottery tickets, which basically means you just threw away being a millionaire, because odds.

spectastic

I guess you'll still need press fittings, but those are cheap. you can probably rig something up for the press from the garage or something.

echappist

Yeah, so bitter that i bpught jsut fancy beer, though i wasnt that bitter as it's not IPA

hack

I've got a couple of bikes now, one with a press fit BB and one with a threaded. In terms of tinkering, I much prefer the threaded BB. Just need one cheap (~$15) tool and all is well. I can bounce between GXP and Shimano in a couple of minutes and I have never had the creaking problem I get with the pressfit BB.

I am sure if you are pressfit savvy, all the above is applicable as well, but I just find the threaded BB to be a simpler system.

misterwaterfall

Threaded is way nicer, I agree. I like that i can swap them out myself, which means I will do so on a regular basis. On my main/race bike it's a press fit BB86 and it hasn't been to the shop in over a year(probably 750 hours or so). It needs it, but I don't need the bill right now so it'll wait.

spectastic

you can make a press with a socket wrench and about $10 worth of hardware from lowes

I did it to the bushing on this mother,