Double Checking

Well this is annoying.

The lesson I learned this weekend is that you should always double check what’s wrong with the bike before shelling out for new parts.

So the worn-through brake pads turned out to be worn, yes, but not drastically, and the solution was to adjust the lever reach not change the pads. Admittedly the old brake has stopped adjusting itself properly but I now have pads I don’t need just yet and an £11 hole in my bank account. Clearly the brake needs a change at some point and I’ll need the pads inevitably eventually but it’s irritating not to have thought it through, or to have adjusted the brakes on the fly and blasted the last section of Cwm Carn properly.

Also the flat on the BMX seems mysterious. The jury’s out, but it seems to stay up after a bit of pumping. Once again I’ll need the new tube sometime but it could have waited until a less tight-for-money month.

The lesson for me, and everyone, is to think outside the obvious solution each time and potentially save yourself money.

I now have useful spares, on the positive side, to ride with in the future.

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