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Apr. 1st, 2019 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm back from a relaxing trip to Canada! I was not on the internet much at all while away, so I'll catch up on things here later. In the meantime, I'm settling in to real life again.
My hope of my bike being ready for pickup upon my return was not to come to pass. Uptown Bikes called me in Canada to say something along the lines of "So, how did this wheel end up being on your bike?"
As I wrote some time ago, I'd had a custom rear wheel built with an extra strong rim and spokes. The options for hubs these days are pretty slim when it comes to freewheels, the older style of drive train that my bike has. I also didn't know what I was doing well enough to think about the hub width. It has turned out to be too narrow, which explains why I getting it mounted was such a pain in the ass. As-it, it was unsafe.
My options were to either buy a new wheel, have a wheel built from my existing rim, or buy a new bike. I'm not buying a regular wheel; I paid for the good rim and I want it! Between two wheel builds, new drivetrain parts, and the Spring maintenance, costs have added up to enough to buy a decent newer bike, and I wonder whether I might have made that choice if I'd known all of that at the beginning. Of course, if I'd known all of that at the beginning, I'd have had the wheel built on a correct hub.
So it'll be a couple of weeks yet while they order parts and build my wheel and I'm a little down about both the extra time and the extra money.
My hope of my bike being ready for pickup upon my return was not to come to pass. Uptown Bikes called me in Canada to say something along the lines of "So, how did this wheel end up being on your bike?"
As I wrote some time ago, I'd had a custom rear wheel built with an extra strong rim and spokes. The options for hubs these days are pretty slim when it comes to freewheels, the older style of drive train that my bike has. I also didn't know what I was doing well enough to think about the hub width. It has turned out to be too narrow, which explains why I getting it mounted was such a pain in the ass. As-it, it was unsafe.
My options were to either buy a new wheel, have a wheel built from my existing rim, or buy a new bike. I'm not buying a regular wheel; I paid for the good rim and I want it! Between two wheel builds, new drivetrain parts, and the Spring maintenance, costs have added up to enough to buy a decent newer bike, and I wonder whether I might have made that choice if I'd known all of that at the beginning. Of course, if I'd known all of that at the beginning, I'd have had the wheel built on a correct hub.
So it'll be a couple of weeks yet while they order parts and build my wheel and I'm a little down about both the extra time and the extra money.
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Date: 2019-04-02 11:26 am (UTC)We've been away to and there are pics!
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Date: 2019-04-02 06:30 pm (UTC)