The rear tyre on my Basso had gone flat so that needed sorting. I took out the old tube and discovered that somebody in the past (not me) had repaired a puncture with a self-adhesive patch which had finally split. I peeled off the old patch and glued on a more permanent one but the tyre went down again overnight. When I checked again, I discovered that the new patch had not fully 'taken'. I put that tube to one side and replaced it with another pre-repaired one from my junk box. That stayed up overnight so I cleaned the cassette and the underside of my rear Crud Roadracer before putting the wheel back in.
I then cleaned the jockey wheels and Mickled the chain.
While I was at it, I adjusted the rear shifting because the rear mech had been slightly hesitant shifting to bigger sprockets.
Oh, and the front shifting to the big ring had been iffy for a few rides and it had been annoying me so I sorted that out while I was at it.
Everything seems to be working smoothly on the stand. The weather was foul today so I did not fancy a test ride. If there is a break in the showers tomorrow, I'll go out for a couple of hours and see how the bike performs now.
PS I decided to have a go at removing and replacing the tyre without using levers. I have had combinations of tyre and rim in the past that would have required me to have the finger strength of a large gorilla, but my current combination of Lithion tyres and Aksium rims turned out to be doable - hard, but not b***ard hard!
