Damn Inferior Earthling Technology
The saga of the Red Trek took another left hand turn today when my front-derailleur cable snapped when I was accelerating up Skinker. I probably have needed to replace the housing for some time, but being me I have just ignored the stiff shifting and gone on luck... The cable snapped right at the shifter and the little stop that catches in the shifter went flying. I have pulled the cable out, and the end of the cable is frayed and a little rusty. Bummer. The question now is, do I have a spare shifter cable at the house? The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, as it applies to bike parts, states that you can know that you need a part, but cannot know if you posess it, or conversely, you can know you posess a part but not know if you need it. Crap. I guess I am walking to the bike shop. At least I can stop by Meshuggah for the happy afternoon coffee on my way home.
posted by dr lothar at 12:29 PM
2 Comments:
Denunzio's laws of bike matenience:
1) copious coffee + perseverance + love for the bike = happy person.
2) no number of mechanicals should get a peddler down
3) a convenient lifestyle is well equipped to deal with tardy arrivals due to greasy fingers.
4) the 3 W's: while repairing old tubes, calculations to make sense as to the frequency one flats should be conducted with the help of Whiskey, Weed, and stack of Wilco albums.
5) when all frustrations due to heavy mechanical failures multiply, think overheated radiator stuck in I-880 rushhour traffic, smile, read rule number 1, and bomb down to the Meshuggah.
2:50 PM
Or you can just start running again.
8:29 AM
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