Bought a new axle (Cycle Doctor in Porth, very pleasant bloke)
Took me ten minutes to fit.
Took me, oh, I dunno, 90 minutes to adjust correctly. I think I put the
wheel on the bike 6 times all told. First couple of times, the axle
wasn't in the right place. Next couple of times, I wasn't compressing
the stays and the QR skewer enough to enable me to screw the QS on. The
penultimate time, I managed to end up with a wobbly hub again! The last
time, I couldn't engage the smallest cog properly. I assumed I'd got the
axle alignment wrong. That's probably the case, but the actual reason
that it wouldn't go on to the small cog was that the screw that holds on
my rack was fouling the chain. I'm guessing it was a millimeter away
before, and the cog is a millimetre closer to it now. There's no way,
however, that I'm adjusting that damned axle again, so I stuck another
washer on the rack screw 🙂
Still, feeling moderately chuffed with myself for having done something
mechanical for the first time in my life. I'm also quite pleased with
myself for having bought disposable latex gloves before I
started. Damned good things.
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Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo