Posts Tagged ‘ Sheldon Brown ’

New Balls Please!

New Balls Please!

My fixie’s not the newest of bikes. It’s a mid-1980s Raleigh Record Sprint that I bought second hand in 1989 to replace a stolen bike. There’s quite a thrilling tale of an attempted miscarriage of justice surrounding this purchase, but we’re not going to talk about that today. When I bought it, this bike had...
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Hub Gear Failure

Hub Gear Failure

Bah! The gears on my Pashley have been a little odd the last couple of times I’ve been out - not very good at shifting down from second to first while stationary, and vaguely notchy feeling in 4th and 5th. Something definitely in need of adjusting. But today on the way into work (breakfast networking...
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This New Chain Has My Name On It

This New Chain Has My Name On It

Cleaning bikes on Wednesday evening, I checked the chain on my fixie, Byron. Not such good news: Basically, if the peg on the left fits in between the chain links, it means that the chain’s "stretched", and needs replacing before it starts to wear away the rest of the transmission. Chains don’t really stretch of...
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