<starts to remove bicycle pedal crank following Shimano manual>

Hey it's not quite coming off.

<a few minutes of tugging pass>

It's like something is stopping it

<a few minutes pass>

<checks manual>

"blah blah blah ... stopper plate."

I wonder if hat's stopping it.

<lifts stopper plate>

Hey, the stopper plate was stopping it.

🤦‍♂️

#cycling #BikeToot #Velophant

https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116056429632364135

Always check carefully that you're not about to sit on a whippet.

#cycling #BikeToot #velophant

Hypothetically, were I employed, could I book my time getting a bike fit to "medical time off - physio?" 😃

(this is not a #BikeNitePQ 😃)

#cycling #BikeToot #velophant

Dealing with the last day of the holidays by shopping for audaxes, because there's a reminder in my phone to enter Barry's Bristol Butt Buster 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 after seeing @wav3ydave 's write up last year.

#cycling #BikeToot #velophant #audax #audaxuk

Successes today:

1. found the chain gauge

2. discovered that the chain needs replacing

3. discovered just in time that I was halfway through attempting to fit the new 12 speed chain to the 11 speed drivetrain

4. replaced the old 11 speed chain

5. ordered a new 11 speed chain

#cycling #BikeToot #velophant