Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Had the same headwind on the way home last night, only to be hit with it again this morning. Four minutes slower today.

Had ghost shifting on the way home, adjusted out on the fly with the thumb shifter adjusters, but pulled the cable out and gave it a good clean, blasted the shifters and mech and re-indexed. All fine this morning.

Ordered a new gear cable (I have lots of outers) and a new barrel adjuster for the rear mech as it doesnt have alot of adjustment (really old XT mech from the 90's). If the gears play up I'll fit the spares.

 

[biking_fox]

ALso having bike woes, not the gears as they're rohloff, but the chain's jumped 3 mornings in succession at the same set of potholes! I should remember to take it a bit more gently, and also need to adjust the tension when I can get it on a stand.

Otherwise sunshine and cherry blossoms all around. Make the most of it though for tomorrow looks thoroughly grim.

 

[HLaB]

Opened up my shift last night and everything is moving fine. Except if shift up the cassette the lever to go down the cassette doesn't spring back. You can easily manually press back the lever that pushes it out and all shifts down fine until you shift up again. I could be wrong but I reckon the shoogly train somehow through out a spring. The Ultegra shifters were 2nd hand 10 years back. Hopefully the lbs will have a spring that they can bodge to do what I was doing manually. It'd be a shame to throw away a otherwise functioning shifter and unfortunately shimano only seem to sell shifters in pairs.
I suspect that the next commute to work will be on the Ti gravel bike. I don't really like leaving it in the bike cage all day though.

 

[Arjimlad]

Last night's pissweasel driver. Reported. I'd expect more than a warning letter for this one.

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