Gear cable snapped while out riding,but not too bad an experience

[Heltor Chasca]

It’s great to hear you were out on the bike. I started to think you lived in a pub.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I reckon a fiver including tip.

Spot on,how did you know?

 

[Accy cyclist]

It’s great to hear you were out on the bike. I started to think you lived in a pub.

I do,and a cemetery as well!

 

[numbnuts]

Back on topic, I reckon a fiver including tip.

And the "tip" should be - do it yourself the next time

 

[Bazzer]

My change pot came to over £700 last time I cashed it in.

Back on topic, I reckon a fiver including tip.

Not quite in your league, but my "penny jar" (an old Bells former pub whisky bottle) came to a little over £175 earlier this year. It was only emptied because Mrs B complained she couldn't move it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

And the "tip" should be - do it yourself the next time

Easy when you know how!

 

[screenman]

Spot on,how did you know?

Pure genius.

 

[classic33]

Spot on,how did you know?

You paid 50p extra and gave a tip!!

 

[mjr]

£25

The tension in a gear cable in a particular gear is the same whether you are going uphill, flat, or downhill

Not true: on some systems, it's slightly lower in the inner ring at the front and small cog at the back. On most three speeds and some other hub gears, it's slackest in either high or low.

 

[mjr]

As an aside sram specify a different gear cable thickness to most others (1.1 mm for sram vs 1.2 mm for everyone else ... I think) I always use 1.1 mm for my Sram setup but I've read other people who say the extra 0.1mm makes no difference at all.

Are you sure you can't feel the width?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not true: on some systems, it's slightly lower in the inner ring at the front and small cog at the back. On most three speeds and some other hub gears, it's slackest in either high or low.

Read again, in the same gear the tension does not change because of the gradient of the slope. High and low gears are not the same gear. Pay attention at the back!

 

[mjr]

Read again, in the same gear the tension does not change because of the gradient of the slope. High and low gears are not the same gear. Pay attention at the back!

I see now how you could read what you wrote that way, but it wasn't how I read it. You should have written it the less ambiguous second way first IMO.

 

[Kajjal]

You were lucky I was an hour and half from home in the pouring rain earlier in the year when my rear gear cable snapped. I had to place a call to a very cross woman to come and pick me up

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I see now how you could read what you wrote that way, but it wasn't how I read it. You should have written it the less ambiguous second way first IMO.

Well I always thought particular gear meant a particular gear not a range of gears, but no matter, you understand now.

 

[Milkfloat]

You were lucky I was an hour and half from home in the pouring rain earlier in the year when my rear gear cable snapped. I had to place a call to a very cross woman to come and pick me up

Why did you not just ride home?