DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Got this essentially free the other day.
I attended a bike maintenance course at Bikespace hub, Plymouth, and this included, after 8 weeks, building up and keeping your own brand new bike, in this instance a Raleigh Circa 2 hybrid. On the final day, we were supposed to go for a ride, but with gales and flooding, that was a nono. Decided instead to fettle a couple of donated road bikes. One was beyond my abilities to even loosen the seat tube. The other was the Scott. It suffered from some basic faults - some bits missing from the poorly adjusted brakes, QRs done up by King Kong, that sort of thing. A more serious fault was a totally shot bottom bracket. So I replaced my first bottom bracket, sorted the brakes, fettled the transmission, etc voila, nice bike. And they allowed me to swap with the new hybrid.
It will need, in the medium term :
New chain and cassette.
New cables all round.
New wheels - brake wear.
New tyres - Schwalbe Marathons or better, because I hate fixing punctures with a passion, and don't care if there's a weight penalty.
New pedals.
Out for a few laps of Burrator Reservoir to get used to it this afternoon!
It will need, in the medium term :
New chain and cassette.
New cables all round.
New wheels - brake wear.
New tyres - Schwalbe Marathons or better, because I hate fixing punctures with a passion, and don't care if there's a weight penalty.
New pedals.
Out for a few laps of Burrator Reservoir to get used to it this afternoon!
