What have you bought today?

Mottie said:
Today I bought 100 Nespresso coffee capsules and a new chain for my bike.
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Why the new chain, Mottie?
The reason I ask, if it was for reasons of wear , it is good practice to also change the chainrings and sprockets too (as the whole drive train tends to wear to match itself).
Therefore, your new chain won't match your worn cogs.
However, you'll know far more about mechanical stuff than I, and will be able to judge this for yourself.
And you'll have an excuse to do some more fiddling (y)
 
Brigadier said:
Why the new chain, Mottie?
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Well, although I’ve had the bike about 5 or 6 years and being generally lazy, it’s practically still new and has hardly been used. The onboard computer tells me I haven’t quite reached 5 hours total riding time and I’d agree with that! I took it out for a rare fair-weather ride the other day and was just getting to the top of of a short, steep hill in too high a gear. I was determined not to stop so I got out of the saddle, stood up and really pushed on the pedals .........and the chain snapped!

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Mottie said:
Well, although I’ve had the bike about 5 or 6 years and being generally lazy, it’s practically still new and has hardly been used. The onboard computer tells me I haven’t quite reached 5 hours total riding time and I’d agree with that! I took it out for a rare fair-weather ride the other day and was just getting to the top of of a short, steep hill in too high a gear. I was determined not to stop so I got out of the saddle, stood up and really pushed on the pedals .........and the chain snapped!

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The number of times that has happened to teenage lads it's a wonder some of them were able to become fathers! :whistle:
 
Resolva Pro from Amazon
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PVC window handle from eBay
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A new spoke key (push bike) - I'm going to have a go at building a wheel, whether I will ever have the confidence to go above 5mph on it will be another thing - LOL

Brigadier said:
Why the new chain, Mottie?
The reason I ask, if it was for reasons of wear , it is good practice to also change the chainrings and sprockets too (as the whole drive train tends to wear to match itself).
Therefore, your new chain won't match your worn cogs.
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Indeed, if you let your chain get more than 1% wear then a new chain will probably slip. But change the chain at 0.75% and you can use many chains on the same cassette.

Another trick you can do if you have fitted a new chain and it is only slipping in one or two cogs. Take the cassette apart and reverse the slipping cogs*, and they may no longer slip. (I have two cogs
reversed at the mo and they have both stopped slipping)

*you need to file one of the small lugs on the cog to get it to fit on back to front!
 
A lovely large slab of sycamore and a few blocks of various wood including beech, ash, oak and cherry, to keep me amused in my shed seeing as I am being furloughed for a further 4 weeks. :-)
 
New sky contract, super fast broadband and Unlimited phone-line £25.00 per month for 18 months.Don’t you just love Sky.
 
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