Tales from today's commute....

[Hacienda71]

Fecking chain snapped Fixed with a spare link from the saddle bag. Divert to bike shop for new chain. Cassette looks ok fit chain set off chain slipping. Off to lbs for new cassette. Test ride, jockey wheel playing up ffs

 

[I like Skol]

Fixed with a spare link from the saddle bag. Divert to bike shop for new chain.

I don't get it? You fixed it, then went to the bike shop to fix it again? If a quick link is good enough to joint the chain once then why not twice?

 

[Hacienda71]

I don't get it? You fixed it, then went to the bike shop to fix it again? If a quick link is good enough to joint the chain once then why not twice?

Erring on the side of caution. If one link has failed then another could at any moment. Had that happen on a ride with a South Manchester Cc'er when his chain failed twice within 20 miles at two different links.

 

[Hacienda71]

Oh and I only tend to carry one quick link.

 

[fossyant]

Which road Foss?

Car again today, one more and then it's back to normal for a while before a new route starts.

Its a back street in Cheadle Village, just as you pass the primary school, you turn to pass the Cheadle Medical Centre. There is an official diversion to the car park, so the route has been opened up.

 

[fossyant]

Fecking chain snapped Fixed with a spare link from the saddle bag. Divert to bike shop for new chain. Cassette looks ok fit chain set off chain slipping. Off to lbs for new cassette. Test ride, jockey wheel playing up ffs View attachment 41780

Chain's slack. (And filthy).

PS @Edwards80 snapped his last night !!

 

[Origamist]

Breezy and sunny ride home...

Snapped chain = too much power, Chris...

 

[Hacienda71]

Breezy and sunny ride home...

Snapped chain = too much power, Chris...

I suspect it had more to do with it being an old knackered chain than my wattage output.

 

[400bhp]

Don't you get stupid mileage out of a chain?

I never get more than 2000 miles.

 

[Hacienda71]

About 3000 out of that one and about 4500 out of the cassette. The cassette and chain before did more like 6000 iirc and I only replaced them because I thought it was time rather than a component failure.

 

[fossyant]

4000 out of a fixed chain and sprocket, but I think the cost is about the same though. £10 for a fixed chain, and £15-£20 for a quality Sprocket.

I can prove riding fixed isn't much cheaper.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

That was a bizarre trip to work...

Haven't driven for 3 months. Had a bike warranty job at work - a work that thinks it can have a bike department without mechanic or workshop. So had to bring wheel with the innards of an exploded freewheel stuck on it home in one of the company cars, to sort it in my home workshop.

Nearly turned off through the bus gate out of habit, luckily remembered I was holding a wheel, not bars.

 

[Ollie W]

Wet on the way in, dark and cold-ish on the way home. Got a few funny looks when I rocked up to work in my bib shorts for the first time instead of my usual undershorts and baggies, but by God was my seat area better for it. I've lost three kilos this week (132 to 129 kg) and the XXL bibs I just bought from Decathlon for the Sport Relief ride last month are getting a bit baggy already...

 

[martint235]

[QUOTE 3018322, member: 30090"]How about changing the sprocket/chainring size?[/QUOTE]
Thought of that but at the moment it's the right size to allow me to overtake roadies going uphill, troublle is I spin out at around 25 on the flat or downhill.

 

[martint235]

Wonderful day for riding a bike to work.

Puzzled by people though. I readily accept that my bike handling skills aren't up there with the best but they seem to be the best on the riverside path. And yet I'm the only one that slows down for the narrow passing places. Nobbers.