Mastodawn

1h ago

previous owner said FUCK IT WE ROLL i guess

wonder how long it took to wear through that metal?

2h ago

Anna's old 21-speed steel frame has about the same chain, but its front derailleur cage is _significantly wider_

and my ebike chains are narrower and seem to fit on the gears

so i guess my question at this point is whether they put on the wrong chain or they swapped out the front derailleur and it's not quite compatible

but i think they did one of the two and it does kind of explain a lot

i guess for the moment i put the front derailleur up way too high again and try to get more gear range out of it than they did, i kind of had that going in a limited way before i took the chain off to clean and reset everything

hopefully I can get there again but it is fiddly as fuck

but having a reason makes it better

2h ago

and by thick i mean wide

it's the same width as the 3-speed chain on that Schwinn I need to get back to fixing up, which naturally has no front derailleur

or i dunno

maybe the front derailleur is just bent but i can tell you this

the chain literally scrapes both sides at once if you put the front derailleur at the right height

Wild Monkey Bike Rides 2h ago

Shrine Time. #cycling #cyclingphotos #cyclinginjapan #tokyo #japan #shrine #fujibikes #fedibikes #biketooter

2h ago

well that took a while to figure out

but

i think the reason i absolutely cannot get this chain to behave in this front derailleur if i try to set it up the correct way is that

it's the wrong fucking chain

it's too wide, it literally _cannot_ work with this derailleur without chain scrape in third gear if you try to set it up the way you're supposed to

when i started poking at it, the front derailleur was mounted super high on the post and they'd given up on the third front gear and settled for the lower two, and looking at the shifter cable i thought it was because they'd broken it and patched around that but

i think this whole time they were working around this stupid thicker chain

#Cycling #BikeTooter #Fife

David O'Brien 3h ago

If you'd asked me 18 months ago if I could do a 15 mile (25km) bike ride, I'd have laughed and said I couldn't ride a bike for 15 metres.

Today I did a 15 mile bike ride round the East Neuk of Fife.

Stehpferd 3h ago

"Pfuä, ich seh überhaupt nix."

Hab mich, solange es so hart geblendet hatte, mit gesenktem Helm an der Asphaltkante orientiert. Hat funktioniert, bin auf der Straße geblieben :o)

#fahrrad #fedibikes #biketooter #workout #training #radsport #roadbike #gravelbike #rennrad #sunset #sonnenuntergang

cognitively accessible math 6h ago

#bikeTooter I went out for my "lunch lap" around campus.
There are signs to "Red Cross SHelter - Refugio."
I don't think anything else is going on: this is disaster preparedness for tomorrow's forecast. Trying to figure out where I have tucked my portable chargers, ANY OF THEM. (I do have a pretty big Jackery with outlets that will keep lamps and modems going for some days.)