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Post by Humph on Nov 9, 2016 14:29:06 GMT
Does Cambridge have an equivalent to the "Boris bike" scheme? Just thinking, well, you know, pay as you go sort of thing? Nothing to fix, just ride the thing. Might be less, erm, complicated...?
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Post by crankcase on Nov 9, 2016 14:37:04 GMT
No. We had a much vaunted "community bike" scheme a few years ago. The council supplied a zillion bikes, and the idea was you just picked one up, rode to wherever and left it for the next person to take as they will. I think it lasted as much as a week before every last bike was loaded onto iffy transits by fly-by-nights to somewhere profitable. Oh look, I found a link. A week? I was over-generous. The relevant sentence is: "And in one brave attempt at free community bicycles in Cambridge in 1993, all 300 bicycles were stolen on the first day" www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/jan/06/freestuff.guardianspecial435 |
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Post by Humph on Nov 9, 2016 14:39:32 GMT
If the inner cable appears to be too short, well, it might be, but I rather suspect that the sleeve it runs through is not seated properly at the brake lever end. They can pop out when tension is released. The effect that has is to falsely increase the apparent tension, or cause the cable to appear too short, ( causing the brake to lock on ) could be that all you need to do is fiddle it back in at that end.
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Post by crankcase on Nov 9, 2016 14:45:20 GMT
I really will try, I'm not giving up that easily. I'm just afraid the phrase "I have the bit between my teeth" may end up being literally true.
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Post by Humph on Nov 9, 2016 14:53:27 GMT
Google "servicing rim brakes", there are almost certainly YouTube thingies.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2016 15:47:22 GMT
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Post by crankcase on Nov 9, 2016 16:23:34 GMT
Thanks for that. I'm reminded of the bit in one of Beverly Nichols' books where he buys a pump for the garden. The box shows gallons of sparkling water flowing effortlessly as a small six year old angelic child laughingly touches the handle with one dainty finger. The reality is that it takes an army of red-faced workmen six days at a shilling a minute to produce one watering can's worth of rusty fluid.
Do you see where I'm coming from? I do appreciate the thought though.
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