Comments on: Unsuccessful bike ride http://davidernst.net/blog/2006/05/07/unsuccessful-bike-ride/ Things I'll talk about with anyone Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kevin http://davidernst.net/blog/2006/05/07/unsuccessful-bike-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-4766 Kevin Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:24:07 +0000 http://davidernst.net/blog/?p=64#comment-4766 <p>Hi David:</p> <p>Bummer! There's a cool trick you can usually use... take whichever end of the cable is long enough (depending on the break location you may have to remove it from the shifter, and run that end of the cable backwards through the derailleur (if you can't cut off the cable stop)), get your derailer to a gear you can live with, and tie off or knot the cable to maintain that tension. (Supposedly you can use the high/low limiter screws on the derailer to do this too, but I've not found that I can get to a very low gear that way.)</p> <p>Huge number of fun tips here: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/ The author is an interesting character. and http://www.trails-edge.com/e_bikerepair.htm and http://www.bikerag.com/bike_fix.htm</p> Hi David:

Bummer! There’s a cool trick you can usually use… take whichever end of the cable is long enough (depending on the break location you may have to remove it from the shifter, and run that end of the cable backwards through the derailleur (if you can’t cut off the cable stop)), get your derailer to a gear you can live with, and tie off or knot the cable to maintain that tension. (Supposedly you can use the high/low limiter screws on the derailer to do this too, but I’ve not found that I can get to a very low gear that way.)

Huge number of fun tips here: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/ The author is an interesting character.
and
http://www.trails-edge.com/e_bikerepair.htm
and
http://www.bikerag.com/bike_fix.htm

]]> By: David Ernst chats with the World » This time, work interrupts the bike ride http://davidernst.net/blog/2006/05/07/unsuccessful-bike-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-1147 David Ernst chats with the World » This time, work interrupts the bike ride Fri, 26 May 2006 05:16:35 +0000 http://davidernst.net/blog/?p=64#comment-1147 [...] Even after Saturday’s trip to King’s Island with Priscilla, I woke up on Sunday feeling well rested and motivated to go for a bike ride. It seems like something one shouldn’t fight when it happens, so I started looking at my maps. I didn’t want to go back to the route that I’d failed on last time, I wanted something new. I’d been wondering recently if I’m just used to all of the reasonable ways to exit Bloomington on a bike. Then I remembered that the collection of trips that I bought from the Bloomington Bicycle Club includes a sheet called “The ins and outs of Bloomington”. So, I studied that. The answer is yes, I am pretty used to all of them, but it’s nice to have a list before you so that you can remember ones you haven’t done in a while and think about where they might go that’s different than places you’ve been before. And so it was that I decided to head north on the West side of Highway 37 (which is sort of the great divide of biking around Bloomington). It looked like I might be able to make it to the White River if I was feeling good, and that sounded like a fun adventure. [...] [...] Even after Saturday’s trip to King’s Island with Priscilla, I woke up on Sunday feeling well rested and motivated to go for a bike ride. It seems like something one shouldn’t fight when it happens, so I started looking at my maps. I didn’t want to go back to the route that I’d failed on last time, I wanted something new. I’d been wondering recently if I’m just used to all of the reasonable ways to exit Bloomington on a bike. Then I remembered that the collection of trips that I bought from the Bloomington Bicycle Club includes a sheet called “The ins and outs of Bloomington”. So, I studied that. The answer is yes, I am pretty used to all of them, but it’s nice to have a list before you so that you can remember ones you haven’t done in a while and think about where they might go that’s different than places you’ve been before. And so it was that I decided to head north on the West side of Highway 37 (which is sort of the great divide of biking around Bloomington). It looked like I might be able to make it to the White River if I was feeling good, and that sounded like a fun adventure. [...]

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