abo
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- Stockton on Tees
As you know I bought my bike just shy of two weeks ago. The gear shifting has never been right, it has been back a couple of times. The plaggy bash ring was smashed off due to it trying to shift past the big ring but I'd already resolved to get a better one so I wasn't fussed.
Well I've had a play with the front derailleur today and I just can't get it right. Can manage to get either top and middle or middle and bottom but never all three. But this isn't the reason it's going back; when I've been faffing around I've noticed a couple of teeth have broken off two of the rings in the rear cassette. Looking at it one of them seems to have been done before the bike has even been assembled (the sheared bit is the same colour as the rest of the sprocket, the ones which have broken since are bare metal coloured.
Ok I know you get what you pay for but this bike really is all I can afford at the moment. But I do expect it not to destroy itself after less than 25 miles. So I'm going to give the manager a call in the morning and tell him he has got until the end of the day to either replace the rear cassette, bash ring, front gear cable (it has become frayed with all the messing) and set the flipping thing up properly this time, or provide a new bike. A little something to make up for the inconvenience wouldn't go amiss either. If stuff keeps going wrong then I'll just keep making a proper nuicence of myself...
At least they managed to put the forks in the right way round!
Well I've had a play with the front derailleur today and I just can't get it right. Can manage to get either top and middle or middle and bottom but never all three. But this isn't the reason it's going back; when I've been faffing around I've noticed a couple of teeth have broken off two of the rings in the rear cassette. Looking at it one of them seems to have been done before the bike has even been assembled (the sheared bit is the same colour as the rest of the sprocket, the ones which have broken since are bare metal coloured.
Ok I know you get what you pay for but this bike really is all I can afford at the moment. But I do expect it not to destroy itself after less than 25 miles. So I'm going to give the manager a call in the morning and tell him he has got until the end of the day to either replace the rear cassette, bash ring, front gear cable (it has become frayed with all the messing) and set the flipping thing up properly this time, or provide a new bike. A little something to make up for the inconvenience wouldn't go amiss either. If stuff keeps going wrong then I'll just keep making a proper nuicence of myself...
At least they managed to put the forks in the right way round!
