[insert smug look]

[buggi]

fixed my own gears and i'm a

feeling smug with myself

 

[joolsybools]

Well done! I too am of the female variety, still struggling a bit with indexing though, grrr!

 

[Adasta]

Congrats! I get frustrated with the fiddly stuff so am quite content to give stuff to the mechanic at the bike shop to fix! Plus, he porably won't bugger it up - whereas I would...

 

[longers]

I get frustrated with the fiddly stuff so am quite content to give stuff to the mechanic at the bike shop to fix!

I get frustrated too but love the satisfaction when I work it out. Bit like Buggi has. I'm not a girl though.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Weren't you worried about your nails?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm one of those genetically-defined bloke-like entities but I often go through a ''can I do it, can't I do it?'' chain of thought - mechanical competence being more to do with confidence than genes or gender. But it's great when you say ''Yes, I'll have a go!'' and so much better when you manage to do it, isn't it?

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Weren't you worried about your nails?

Incoming ... duck!!!

 

[buggi]

well normally, if it's more than changing an inner tube, it goes to the bike shop. But recently i've roped in a couple of mates to do minor jobs, such as changing the casette to a new rim, and doing some new brakes and pedals etc and after watching them i thought "this bike sh*t ain't as hard as it looks" so next time i need something doing i'll try it myself.

So the other day my chain wouldn't go on the big ring so i thought, sod it, i'll try it myself. so while it was in the small ring i got my dad's pliers, held the wire, unscrewed the bolt, pulled the wire through as hard as i could with the pliers, and screwed it back up.

and hey presto... it worked. now my chain goes on the big ring again. AND... guess what else i did?....

 

[buggi]

Weren't you worried about your nails?

nail polish still intact! made sure i held the pliers and the alun key correctly!

 

[Gerry Attrick]

nail polish still intact! made sure i held the pliers and the alun key correctly!

Phew ... relax all.

Very restrained, Buggi.

 

[buggi]

i also put some new bar tape on (honest, i'm not kidding! i did it all by myself) LOL

 

[HLaB]

So the other day my chain wouldn't go on the big ring so i thought, sod it, i'll try it myself. so while it was in the small ring i got my dad's pliers, held the wire, unscrewed the bolt, pulled the wire through as hard as i could with the pliers, and screwed it back up.

and hey presto... it worked. now my chain goes on the big ring again.

Well done, but its a lot easier than that. First to try would have been a twist of the barrel adjuster. If that didnt work a shift to the small ring then a tightening of the cable similar to what you done but you don't have to pull hard and then you'd finely adjust with the barrel.

 

[potsy]

Well done, but its a lot easier than that. First to try would have been a twist of the barrel adjuster. If that didnt work a shift to the small ring then a tightening of the cable similar to what you done but you don't have to pull hard and then you'd finely adjust with the barrel.

Girls eh?

Only joking Buggi

 

[buggi]

Well done, but its a lot easier than that. First to try would have been a twist of the barrel adjuster. If that didnt work a shift to the small ring then a tightening of the cable similar to what you done but you don't have to pull hard and then you'd finely adjust with the barrel.

but that would only work if you had a barrel adjuster on it? Right?


so still feeling smug

 

[HLaB]

but that would only work if you had a barrel adjuster on it? Right?


so still feeling smug

You don't need a barrel adjuster for the second method, its only for fine tuning.

If its any consolation when I was a about 15, I tried the same as you