My hack bike gave up the ghost this morning
I realised when I was trying to back pedal to get the right pedal up for the off at top of Ardmillan something was not quite right
When I got to the bottom of Ardmillan and passed a van to find pedalling was doing nothing I frantically tried changing a few gears
So in my limited bikey knowledge - the thingy that makes the cogs makde the wheel go round has gone snap...
So I had to walk this morning as I couldn't manage to untwist the light mountings off to put on the trusty hybrid and did not fancy riding sans lightage
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Winter fail
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Posted 13 years ago #
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"the thingy that makes the cogs makde the wheel go round has gone snap"
Do you know if it's a block or a cassette (I'm aware you might not know the difference!) If it's a cheapish bike with six or seven gears on the back it may be that the internals have got gunged up - in which case lie the bike on its side and pour/spray some oil where the cogs join the bit that is screwed onto the hub.
Leave for a short while and spin wheel - pawls may start engaging again.
If it's a cassette/freehub you'll have to take cogs off first (you'll need tools...)
Posted 13 years ago # -
the thingy that makes the cogs makde the wheel go round has gone snap..
Chain? Just kidding. and pleased that I am not the only one with no sense of what bits are called !
Posted 13 years ago # -
Warming it up might even do the trick but I'd agree with chdot, try some WD-40, it's the universal fixer*.
* not for brake surfaces
Posted 13 years ago # -
OK will try taking indoors and warming up then blasting with WD40 when I get home. It was pretty cold at the bottom of the stair.
@SRD - did you ever store your bike out of the snow?Posted 13 years ago # -
This is about what to do with a freehub.
http://forums.bicycletutor.com/thread-1868.html
(Ignore 'advice' about Loctite!)
Posted 13 years ago # -
This is about what to do with a freehub. Unless I'm reading it wrong it takes a whole page to get to the point where he's got the cassette off. Then he pours gunk into the freehub to loosen the pawls and decides it's fixed. Hmmm. I wouldn't ride it myself.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"takes a whole page to get to the point where he's got the cassette off"
Yeah that sounds a bit like me. Quite a lot of swearing and stabbing myself with the teeth happens in between.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"Hmmm. I wouldn't ride it myself."
Generally true that squirt technique revives screw-on freewheels more reliably than cassette bodies.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I hate swearing and stabbing. Off to Freewheelin it is...
In fact I am not sure I want to bother spending when the daily hybrid needs a new back wheel as I have almost scraped through the rim...
I think when it snows I will simply resort to walking in.Posted 13 years ago # -
Well it is fun with the spikes!
"I hate swearing and stabbing."
Lol, glad to hear it!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Yeah if you are swearing it means you have probably already been stabbed.
Best stabbing in silence ;)Posted 13 years ago # -
If its a freehub, the more modern type, then its probably goosed as i discovered last year.
Posted 13 years ago # -
@SRD - did you ever store your bike out of the snow?
NO. and I stupidly left it locked against a downpipe which means that mid-way through last week it was solidly encased in ice...wish I had got a picture for you guys. it was like a bike sculpture about half a foot thick in places.
Posted 13 years ago # -
@SRD
:O
both that you left it on a downpipe and that you didn't take photos
Now do you want it stored before the weatherrapesstrikes the bike again?Posted 13 years ago # -
My lovely blue commuting mtb, she of the matt brown chain and weighs-a-ton Panaracer Fire knobblies, is now in an even worse state. This winter has absolutely knackered things.
I rode my Brompton today, which was just as well because while examining the blue bike once I was home, the cable clamp on the rear derailleur snapped off, leaving half a sheared bolt in the parallelogram. I'll be really annoyed if that simple a failure has consigned an otherwise perfectly good M739 XT mech to the bucket. Naturally, I shall do my utmost to extract the bolt first.
I also roadtested a Smart Polaris 7 front light today. It's eyeball searing dead-on, but very narrow-beamed, and disappointingly blue-hued (ah, the phosphorus deposition process control of cheap LEDs...). I'm a little underwhelmed, to be honest, but it was cheap, it's bright, and keeps me satisfactorily visible.
Posted 13 years ago # -
finnally took the time to do a full clean + service today and was pretty dismayed with the results, rear cassette is actually rusted, chain is running ok now but took a lot of cleaning, even the egg beaters were stiff and gritty. Still not sure if i should have gotten a bso for the winter, lets see how bad the damage is when it goes for service in the spring.
Posted 13 years ago # -
In Spitfire's case I think it will be
the pawls
I only know this because it happened to one of my LB bikes. Take it to a shop (eg Bike Works) to get a second opinion I'd say.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I thought my increasingly reticent shifting this morning was the mech getting gummed up. Turned out it was the wire fraying inside the shifter. Not strictly directly attributable to the gunk on the roads but it can't have helped.
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