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A delayed what did you do from last week
Did some essential maintenance on Mr 10's bike, as the complaining from him was louder than the creaking from his chain.
A quick dropper service (undo collar apply some slickoleum and a little bit of fork oil on the wiper) it now goes up and down without sticking halfway, winning.
Start to lube the chain and notice a cracked link, search for another quick link and a bit of chain but Mr 10 says Dad there's more, gave up counting after about four. Serves me right for re using an old chain off my roadie but he also has a bad habit of taking off in the highest gear and trying to shift at the same time. Found a whole good secondhand chain and popped that on.
Put the fourtimer rack together finally after waiting ages for them to get a replacement part with the shitty welding. They had offered to take it back and get a holdup plus extra 2 but there was no stock so couldn't bo bothered waiting longer.
Took my son and his mate for a ride, we started at the Altone Park dirt jumps but they are way above my skill level on an old school XC bike that I had stupidly decided to fit an old school stem to the other day. I would rather not break my neck plus there was a guy riding round on a dirt bike so we packed up and went to the Dianella BMX facility.
The pump track was full of little kids and scooters so we mainly rode the skills trail, which doesn't get anywhere near the same amount of usage which is sad considering the amount of money that went into building it. I must remember to find a shorter stem before I take the old girl out again.
Did some essential maintenance on Mr 10's bike, as the complaining from him was louder than the creaking from his chain.
A quick dropper service (undo collar apply some slickoleum and a little bit of fork oil on the wiper) it now goes up and down without sticking halfway, winning.
Start to lube the chain and notice a cracked link, search for another quick link and a bit of chain but Mr 10 says Dad there's more, gave up counting after about four. Serves me right for re using an old chain off my roadie but he also has a bad habit of taking off in the highest gear and trying to shift at the same time. Found a whole good secondhand chain and popped that on.
Put the fourtimer rack together finally after waiting ages for them to get a replacement part with the shitty welding. They had offered to take it back and get a holdup plus extra 2 but there was no stock so couldn't bo bothered waiting longer.
Took my son and his mate for a ride, we started at the Altone Park dirt jumps but they are way above my skill level on an old school XC bike that I had stupidly decided to fit an old school stem to the other day. I would rather not break my neck plus there was a guy riding round on a dirt bike so we packed up and went to the Dianella BMX facility.
The pump track was full of little kids and scooters so we mainly rode the skills trail, which doesn't get anywhere near the same amount of usage which is sad considering the amount of money that went into building it. I must remember to find a shorter stem before I take the old girl out again.
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