Well…after suiting up ad heading out in the cold this morning, I remembered that the bike has been acting screwy when I was shifting both the front and back shifters…the back one wouldn’t shift down and I had run out of adjustment for it and it reminded me of a cable starting to fail like has happened before…so, after crippling though the two rides, I carried the bike downstairs to let it warm up enough so I could work on it…didn’t want to do it outdoors since it was cold and raining…so, after I had my coffee, I went down to get started with first taking out the old rear cable and yep, it had started to fray inside the sheaths that it runs in and I could barely get it out and that’s probably why it was hard to downshift…so I put a new cable in and flipped it over to attach the cable to the shifter and adjust it…then I worked on adjusting the front shifter since it was not working right either…so now I think I have them right but couldn’t go out to test it with the rain off ad on all day…and I just didn’t want to get cold again…while I had the bike upside down, I adjusted both the front and back wheel bearings and put the new tire on the back so now they match again…and then lubed everything with light oil to keep it from rusting and sticking..and all of that took about an hour and a half and I noticed that the the whole driveline is about worn out and I hope it lasts until I put the bike downstairs for the winter…I’ll have to order the parts soon so I can replace the front crankset, the rear cassette, the rear shifter, and the chain and that will be almost 100 bucks but it needs to be done…and I probably should do that to the black bike, too but maybe not…it’s nice to have a parts bike…time to read…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well…after suiting up ad heading out in the cold this morning, I remembered that the bike has been acting screwy when I was shifting both the front and back shifters…the back one wouldn’t shift down and I had run out of adjustment for it and it reminded me of a cable starting to fail like … Continue reading Bike trouble…<\/span>