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Glad the patient was resurrected. Must have been that candle Dodie lit.
4 months agoWhat a day! So glad for the happy end!
4 months agoAs a new owner of an IGH, I've found your story to be quite the cliff hanger! A new wheel is much cheaper than a whole new bike. Whew.
4 months agoBest bike shop story ever, and with great illustrations. I just bought a new single Bike Friday, first for one without an internal rear hub, but they aren't making the good, old hubs.
I'm sure you'll be pleased to reach Paris but we will miss the daily postings.
Quick buy a lottery ticket! You and Dodie must be living right. I just took a wheel in for truing to our LBS and it is a one week turn around.
As part of the hub conversation - this rear wheel has a three level Sram Dual Drive internal hub which replaces the front derailleur with roughly a triple chain ring range. It is coupled with a 9 speed cassette on the back with a regular derailleur. We had the internal hub serviced before our last trip and although an older model of internal hub - I find them to be very reliable.
The miracle of Orléans. Have you made a voodoo doll of the lady on the Nantes bike shop yet
4 months agoSteve looks at the weather apps for the forecast. Dodie, being low tech, looks out the window.
4 months agoGreat story, Keith. Love the Frenglish.
4 months agoPicky girl, she is. She says she won't buy it if it has to remain pink. Sigh!
4 months agoEither way these buildings have such a terrific look to them.
4 months agoPunny story!
4 months agoBerries rule of thumb, darker is usually better, and smaller is usually better... "usually"
Kinda like weather forecasting?
Oh goodness. That sounds highly distressing. The only internally geared hub I would trust is a Rohloff, but those cost and arm, a leg, and your first born child. For everything else there is the trusty derailleur. But these e-bikes now seem to want to do all sorts of fancy things like internal gears and belt drives. That just seems like more and more stuff that’s hard to find parts for on the road and harder for a handy bike user to fix. I hope the patient finds life again!
4 months agoHi,
Thanks for the tour of Orleans, a great city. I have one bike with a Nexus hub, my city bike. For getting bread and croissants at the boulangerie it works fine. For anything that involves climbing , I will only use one of my derailleur equipped bikes.
All the talk of Joan of Arc reminds me of a story.
Many years ago, when I had just taken up my first post at Hamlin University in St. Paul, I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Bill Downing. Bill had been a liaison officer in the US navy assigned to the Free French cruiser Georges Leygues and like me he was a francophone /francophile. During his service he was at the Normandy landings, and was the officer in charge of giving the order to open fire which the French did ten minutes before the Americans, British, and Canadians. Anyway, one day when I was at work, I came upon a sign attached to the men’s restroom that read « Jeanne d’Arc », Bill’s way of letting us know the lights had gone in the w.c. (For those of you who do not speak French, Jeanne d’Arc is pronounced like John dark in English).
Cheers,
Keith
He’s on the balcony because he’s smoking!Even he knows this stinky habit is not for the indoors of his dwelling! Do you really want to live somewhere with a next door neighbor who puffs away and you can smell this too? Nope.
4 months ago