This post was originally written for my first SSG website, 2019-04-28. I'm posting it here so I can forget about it really. If you've seen this in your RSS feed, hi Dee and Steph! I'm gonna try remembering to post now
I have an odd obsession with general wear and tear. I love the idea of wearing out thing like tyres and keyboards. It's an…
I finally test rode the GT retro XC bike and it's amazing, but the rear brake was completely locked up. The springs are gone, and so I bought a new one.
Forgot to take pictures though, so all you get is the after of a new BMX U brake installed on the bike. It's not great power, especially compared to…
TLDR: Thank Sheldon Brown for keeping the bike mechanics industry working, fake chains are all over the place, buy from supplier, reputable online dealer (NOT EBAY OR SCAMAZON), or preferably a genuine local bike shop if you have one that has stock. Get yourself a chain checking tool, and oil your chain well. Your bike will love you for it, and …
So first of all, no I've not yet finished the GT and fully tested it... The starnut is still loose, the 5th gear still skips. I'll do it at some point, honest!
But I've got a new idea, see?! And it requires changing wheel sizes (like almost all my plans seem to)
We've had this old green bike in…
It is not dead, and it's an amazing thing and great fun!
On the last Friday of the month, at 18:00, I met up with a few riders in Orton Square Leicester for an unplanned and open to all bike ride!
There were only 5 people there (including me), but I'll take that with the weather being quite shit.
My journey over was…
This is a late night post, but I keep forgetting to write it! Not much will make sense, but when does it ever?
It was the clock changing day last week, also known as 6 months since I installed my wrap around mudguards on my CX/Road/Gravel bike. That's when I said I'd take them off. Also a great time for a full service.
So, it's been a while, I've done things I should have written about, but here goes something that's happened over the last few weeks. I upgraded my MTB to 9 speed! This was due to having a 9 speed shifter I was gonna use on the GT (post up at the same time as this one) but I wanted more gears on this bike, so I did it. There were issues, because…
Some of you may remember the Project Postie wheel donor bike... Well, it's been hanging from my garage roof for a year now and I just loved the look of the frame, and definitely had to do something with it, and FINALLY I did... Welcome to the family, the Neon Annih…
Quite a long listen this one, get a beverage of choice and enjoy it~
To the guy that owns this wheel, if you can't be arsed to read my ramblings my recommendations are clean your bike more, the grease was replaced with mud, and that if the wheel wobbles let me know I've probably not got the screws set quite right.
A friend of my Dads brought over his rear wheel a little while ago as it had seized up in the…