{"id":16135,"date":"2018-04-24T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16135"},"modified":"2018-04-24T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:17:53","slug":"its-official-im-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16135","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official&#8230;I&#8217;m an idiot&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have been having some problems with the new bike that started yesterday&#8230;the chain was skipping in the top 3 gears and I spent a couple of hours yesterday changing out the rear gears and lubing everything up but nothing worked&#8230;and it irritated me so much I just went on and on about it when we were out shooting pool yesterday&#8230;and was going to send a nastygram to the company and bitch to them about it since the bike only has 600 miles on it&#8230;.but, when I got up this morning, I knew exactly what was wrong with it&#8230;.as a little background, with a new bike you normally have to make some fine adjustments to the shifters so they are zeroed in&#8230;and yesterday, I had made a quarter turn towards the downshift side just to see if it could be any better and completely forgot that I had done it&#8230;and the chain didn&#8217;t start to skip until a few miles down the trail so I didn&#8217;t connect the two&#8230;so, this morning I took the adjustment out and no skips at all in 15 miles&#8230;.the bike was trying to shift down a gear when it was skipping&#8230;.and I am an idiot for not remembering that I made that adjustment&#8230;I guess the bright side is that the chain and gears needed to be lubed up and that is done now&#8230;.geez&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;have been having some problems with the new bike that started yesterday&#8230;the chain was skipping in the top 3 gears and I spent a couple of hours yesterday changing out the rear gears and lubing everything up but nothing worked&#8230;and it irritated me so much I just went on and on about it when we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s official&#8230;I&#8217;m an idiot&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-16135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16136,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions\/16136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}