The bike shop called to tell me they managed to un-pretzel my frame. I actually had help breaking it for a change. I was walking past Lee behind him in the parking lot and he started walking backwards and tripped over my bike. He bent up my wheel badly. Enough so that I had to bang it against the curb to straighten it enough to ride ( Read more... )

God I hate Mavic rims. Another fucking spoke pull through. A hand built 36 spoke wheel with less than 3000 miles on it. GGGgrgragggaghhhh!

On a more bicycle related note, I replaced my derailleur, derailleur cable, chain and fixed my spokes on my rear wheel. The index shifting is precisely on now, doesn't squeak, and is marvelous. Of course, now I realize that one of my freehub pawls is sticking, so I need to get the thing opened up and flushed out. Which I'll have to have a shop ( Read more... )

So in a previous entry, I whinged about Shimano chains. Mainly that they stink (literally), and didn't have a convienent link like SRAM's chains do ( Read more... )