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Behind every beautiful field of forgotten squash is an underappreciated squash-gawker!
2 years agoOh, that's a good one!
2 years agoNice work getting to the right spot for a good shot!
2 years agoThanks Scott, this is all rather borne out of necessity rather than any natural mechanical aptitude on my part! In my student days I had a sequence of ... not top-of-the-range bikes, and a combination of random failures and trying to save money meant I ended up learning how to fix (or "bodge") quite a few things. It's definitely been a learning process and I've managed to break things almost as much as I've fixed them - but nothing catastrophic yet!
2 years agoHi Kelly - I've been running a pretty basic Shimano "megarange" 8-speed (11-34 tooth). I like the range of this one, and - up until now! -they've been cheap (£10 or even less) and readily available. I have a creeping feeling they've stopped manufacturing them now too - certainly the "megarange" brand has been retired. So I was cursing myself for not buying a couple of spares when they were on offer a few years ago - in the pandemic I've had trouble even finding used ones on ebay!
2 years agoBeautiful pictures, Scott, but dang, it looks COLD! Glad we're still in AZ, although it was 41 degrees this morning.
2 years agoI’m envious. If we relied on my being able to pull off something like this we’d be doing a whole lot of walking. I’m pretty good on flats and can stumble my way into improving the brakes, but that’s about it. Which is fine. I’m happy to be doing my bit to keep the LBS’s of the world in business.
2 years agoHalf right at least.
2 years agoSorry, but my 97 year old mother gets priority here. The old look will be back in good time though. I’m not likely to get whacked again anytime soon.
2 years agoI personally like the shaggy, windblown, mad scientist look:P
2 years agoJon,
What cassette do you run? I have four spares. Overkill. No trouble finding 9 speed cassettes. What I cannot find is a SRAM X-9, 9 speed grips shifter. There have been a few used ones on Ebay, but they were too used for my liking. I've found just a couple on line, but they were for in store customers only.
The cluster market is really crazy at the moment - oddly enough I was just writing about this, due to parts being completely unobtainable I had to resort to rebuilding my cassette. Glad the bikes are running well again!
2 years agoOh, memories!!
2 years agoYou handsome devil.
2 years ago
Some squash-gawking worthy of great appreciation!
2 years ago