Out Of Commission (Comments: 7)
Author: Ethan
Date: 10 November, 2008
Category: Albany, Commuting, Ethan Georgi
So I’m riding home from work today and I stop at the light to wait to make a left onto Hackett. I was in the middle of shifting up a gear when I stopped. I tried to get it to jump while stopped, by lifting my bike off the ground and spinning the pedals, but it wasn’t having it. I thought it’d just go when I went, so I let it be.
I made the left and traffic started to thin out and my rear derailleur was making all kinds of awful noises. I tried to get it to shift into another gear, and eventually it became apparent to me that my chain was not even on the gears anymore. I pulled off the road and got my flashlight out and went to work. I didn’t expect it to be a big deal.
Long story short, part of the derailleur was coming apart and the chain was not being fed through it. I got it back “together” and I thought that if I didn’t change gears I could just ride it home. Twenty feet later it sounded even worse. So I just walked it home.
Tonight I found out that not only am I missing a nut, I am also missing one of the gears that the chain winds around in the rear derailleur. Downtube was closed and EMS does not sell these kinds of things. Tomorrow I’m going to give Downtube a call.
Until them, I am bikeless.
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