Perils of buying 2nd hand and goings on in my garage

[biggs682]

I’m surprised they weren’t giving it away with Gatorskins. You couldn’t pay me to ride on those.

I like Gators hence my interest

 

[Webbo2]

I like Gators hence my interest

Clearly you have never ridden up hill in the wet or gone round a corner at speeds in double figures. 😉

 

[Paulus]

I’m surprised they weren’t giving it away with Gatorskins. You couldn’t pay me to ride on those.

I've got several bikes shod with Gators, never noticed any problems.

 

[Drago]

People used to say the same about the olde CityJets but I got on very well with them.

 

[biggs682]

People used to say the same about the olde CityJets but I got on very well with them.

I used to use city jets on my commuter and then had 3 or 4 fairy visitors in close succession so swapped to marathons

 

[biggs682]

A busy morning what with a gentle 12 miles and a fair bit of tinkering with my new to me Carrera intercity 8 disc .

First job was to remove the humongous and soft saddle and replace with my seller SMP lite 209 in red of course 😁 and attach an under saddle pouch.

Then a set of clip in pedals and a drinks cage then it was off for a ride.

Drinks bottle rattling inside the cage , saddle needs to go higher and that's all within the first mile.

Press on with ride and once saddle lifted which feels better. Next thing is the bell doesn't ding it does nothing usable.

So once home swap metal cage for a plastic one and that helps with rattling but bottle moves around to much so swap for another one which seems to be better and also swapped the bell for one that does go ding when asked too .

 

[biggs682]

I needed a derailleur hanger type h so a quick hunt around and sure enough that's the same as our tandem spare one so swapped out the bent one and fitted the new spare one and get presto 8 gears are selecting , why can't they all be that easy.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I needed a derailleur hanger type h so a quick hunt around and sure enough that's the same as our tandem spare one so swapped out the bent one and fitted the new spare one and get presto 8 gears are selecting , why can't they all be that easy.

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2 years on, when you have a problem with your tandem, "but I know I had a spare - where has it gone?"

 

[biggs682]

2 years on, when you have a problem with your tandem, "but I know I had a spare - where has it gone?"

One has been ordered