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October 14th, 2020, 09:30 AM
#4921
Jedi
Oh, so that was FAKE NEWS!
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October 14th, 2020, 03:52 PM
#4922
Senior Member
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October 26th, 2020, 08:16 AM
#4923
Jedi
There's homeless-looking dude I used to see riding around my old neighbourhood. He would often ride on the wrong side of the road, would talk to himself constantly and wore large earphones. This morning, I nearly had a head-on collision with him as I rounded a blind corner on my bike. He was on the wrong side of the road, talking to himself, headphones on. I yelled right in his face, "Wrong side of the road, dude!" He muttered something unintelligible and kept on going. The way he rides, I am surprised he is still alive.
Last edited by Cam; October 26th, 2020 at 08:19 AM.
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October 26th, 2020, 02:11 PM
#4924
Went to go ride on the trainer today. Realized after the past couple of rides that my posterior has lost its ability to handle a lot time on the saddle so I figured I'd go for bike shorts, so I get changed. Take the wife's bike off the trainer, remove the skewer, remove the cassette, put the 11 speed cassette on. Run out of room and realize that, once again, I forgot to remove the spacer that the 10 speed cassette uses. Take the 11 speed cassette back off, remove spacer, put the cassette back on. Go to remove the rear wheel on my bike and the rear derailleur comes clean off the bike.
Put bike back down, take 11 speed cassette off the trainer, put the 10 speed one back on, mount Michele's bike back on it, go get changed back. Half an hour later and it's pretty clear the universe does not want me to ride today.
It's weird though. The hanger is held on by two screws. As far as I can tell, the hanger is fine, and the frame looks fine. The screws even seem fine, they just sorta came out and ended up on the ground. I'll try to repair it tomorrow, but we'll see.
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October 26th, 2020, 02:23 PM
#4925
Jedi
Don't use trainer?
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October 26th, 2020, 05:28 PM
#4926
I'm started to get a little too tired of having drivers nearly kill me, so the trainer seems much more pleasant.
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October 27th, 2020, 03:17 PM
#4927
Okay, good news is it looks like the frame is fine. As far as I can tell, the frame has two screw holes in it that are not threaded at all, they're just there to have the screws go through and then thread into the derailleur hanger to hold it in place. Bad news is it seems like one of the derailleur hanger screw holes is at least partially stripped. I can get the screw to tighten up some, but it never really fully bites. I tried adding some loctite to see if that helps it hold for a bit, and when a wheel is mounted I think it should hold in place just by virtue of having the wheel there, but that's temporary until my new hanger shows up in a week or so.
I gotta say though, my next bike won't be a Trek or probably any of the big name ones. It's really annoying finding out that they have little proprietary bits here and there, making it that much harder to find replacement parts without paying out the nose at a dealer.
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October 27th, 2020, 06:19 PM
#4928
Ask me about my bottom br
Did you get the hanger thru a brand dealer or a LBS? I would tend to think that except for top-range stuff most frame hardware was generic. Aren't 95% of all mid-range bikes made in like a dozen or so factories in Taiwan?
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October 27th, 2020, 06:47 PM
#4929
High Plains Luddite
Not to interrupt the current conversation, but since you guys have patiently listened to tales of my minor adventures with the 1996-ish Specialized Allez a friend gave me before leaving town several years ago, I thought it appropriate to provide "the rest of the story", as Paul Harvey used to do.
After having it in the back seat of my car for more than a week now, and despite stumbling upon (but not looking for) comments such as "7-speed integrated shifters are going for $100 all day long on eBay" elsewhere online, I dropped off the Allez at the bicycle co-op after work today. After doing the pandemic hand signals with the lady behind the counter inside while I was still outside, I leaned it against an exterior wall outside the front door on fairly deflated tires in about three inches of unmelted snow and walked away. I felt like Jack Reacher heading for the highway to hitch a ride after emptying his pockets at the end of a novel.
Someone will buy it and enjoy it. Or, it will be stripped of parts, and the parts are good. I sure had fun with it but no longer have a use for a skinny-tired, road-only speed machine when there are so many gravel trails to ride from my neighborhood and nearby mountain bike trails, too.
A picture from a couple years ago:
Last edited by George; October 27th, 2020 at 06:53 PM.
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October 28th, 2020, 07:37 AM
#4930
I saw a bunch of recommendations for hangers from wheelsmfg.com, they make a bunch of them and have a somewhat usable way to check and see if it's compatible with your frame (it does seem to work, but the sorting is completely chaotic - just try to find all the different Madone listings under Trek). Got it for about $20 off Amazon.
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