Jeff Starr said:email hidden said:
Quoted message said:[email hidden] wrote:
> These springs are replaceable and your bicycle shop will have them.
Going into the bike shop for any reasons -other- than to flirt with the
manager or to practice my Chinese on the mechanic is dangerous.
They sold me a new headset.
Ermmm ... a new thingywhatsis. I think it is called a headset. The
bit that connects the handlebars to the front fork.
-M
I think you mean the stem. Although the headset is in that area.
It appears that you are correct.
Quoted message said:Was this part for your new bike, or an older one?
For the new bike.
Despite the fact that this bike is made in Taiwan by Giant for the
Asian market the stem that comes with it doesn't fit any of the people
I know who are buying the bike. I know perhaps six or seven people
riding this bike or one of its cousins and even the ones who aren't
heavily into upgrading everything have, at the very least, swapped this
piece out for a much _much_ shorter one.
It wasn't even the mechanic that convinced me to swap (always dangerous
when your friend who makes a comission tries to get you to buy
something expensive) but one of the other people in the club.
It's amazing. All the sudden I can _see_ things, and that funny little
spot in my back that always feels so gooood when the masseur works on
me doesn't hurt.
I'm currently a one bike girl, though I am quite pleased to say that
the 9 year old son of the man who bought my last road bike is putting a
surprising amount of use into it (despite the suboptimal fit) and even
got his dad to buy him a pair of gloves (because I wear gloves). And
the dad came with the club on one of the 100 kilometer rides last
month.
I was really afraid that the bike would get stowed in the garage or
left outside to rust, but apparently having a cool foreign girl who
rides her bike all the way to other cities living in the same house has
helped to make bike riding interesting as opposed to just something the
cook or maid do.
-M
