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alnilam

blaise rascal posted:

Here's my bike question:

I took the bike out yesterday for the first time in years, and pedaling didn't do anything because the chain had slipped off the rear wheel. I kinda tried to thread it back on, but whatever I was doing didn't work.

What do

did you turn the wheel while you thread the chain back on

Like stand the bike upside down or have a friend hold the rear aloft and turn the pedals

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alnilam

biking to work owns actually

alnilam

The rim on my rear wheel blew out while i was fixing a flat in order to get home from work which is 6 miles from the train station, hooray for friendly coworkers driving by :toot:

alnilam

Adiabatic posted:

if theyre so friendly why didnt they stop

they did they drove me and my bike to the station that's what i meant

alnilam

Manifisto posted:

what on earth does one do on these things when coming up to an intersection where the light is against you and there's cross traffic?

I rode a tall-boy for like ten minutes once. it's tricky to mount, start, stop, etc, but you get the hang of it

alnilam

Bo-Pepper posted:

THAT'S WHAT SHE loving SAID GODDAMMIT

:wiggle:

Manifisto posted:

I believe it, but I guess I mean as a mechanical matter, what do you do? do you have to hop down onto the ground?

:wiggle::wiggle:

alnilam

really tho this is probably the easiest way to explain

https://youtu.be/By5E00tl4U0

the one i rode didn't have pegs but you find somewhere else to step

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alnilam

I begrudgingly rode a housemate's spare fixie for a few months once after my frame broke and i had to build a new bike transfer my working parts over to another, almost identical ubiquitous 70s schwinn frame

It was a neat experience i guess but it only reinforced my notion that riding a fixie in one of the hilliest cities in the country is dumb

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