Sunday, April 18, 2010

Spring detail problems

Although the overall bike is working great, small details items have shown signs of wear. Over the winter time, I noted the front locking assembly lever had become slightly bend out of place. I removed it from it's assembly and tried to fix it. It had become slightly bent out of place but I did manage to put back into the pin again. The rear section of the lever has been somehow damaged so I just held the edges of the lever on the pin while tightening up screw on to the frame lock assembly. The lever needs replacing for it to allow the lever to lock and unlock the quick release properly. For now, I have it working so it holds the quick release assembly section together.
The original light I put on the bike has worn out and broke a few weeks ago. The rough ride on the bike makes any part that can not withstand bumps will break at some point. Since this was just a very cheap way of getting my first bike light into place, it did not have a long life span on it. The original light design was just a book light. It was not ever really designed for bike use. The remaining broken section has been removed from the bike.
Overall the bike is working out becoming more of a work bike that I just treat as any other bike I ride without too much though as to how different it is from the regular bikes I own.how different is is from the others.

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