Rusty Nails
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- Living in the slow lane
My daughter's partner is a daily commuter into the centre of London. His cassette has just started intermittently spinning without engaging when pedalling so he took it to his small LBS. They said it was a common problem with Campag freehubs and his was kaput and needed replacing at a cost of around £90.
I told him to hang on as I was visiting them the next week and I would try to fix it for him. I suspected it was the pawl retaining spring so I bought five for £5.99 from Evans in Cardiff just in case. As I suspected the old spring had snapped and it was an easy job to fix it in less than an hour.
Now I know Halfords gets a bad name but I suspect this LBS could see they were talking to a non-mechanically minded cyclist with a bit of money so took advantage. If they knew this was a common problem surely they knew it was an easy fix.
Grrrrr.
I told him to hang on as I was visiting them the next week and I would try to fix it for him. I suspected it was the pawl retaining spring so I bought five for £5.99 from Evans in Cardiff just in case. As I suspected the old spring had snapped and it was an easy job to fix it in less than an hour.
Now I know Halfords gets a bad name but I suspect this LBS could see they were talking to a non-mechanically minded cyclist with a bit of money so took advantage. If they knew this was a common problem surely they knew it was an easy fix.
Grrrrr.