Comments on: Fool Me Once http://ride.forgecycle.com/2012/06/25/fool-me-once/ Just Keep Pedaling Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Adam http://ride.forgecycle.com/2012/06/25/fool-me-once/#comment-516 Adam Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:49:08 +0000 http://ride.forgecycle.com/?p=690#comment-516 I feel your pain! Literally, as well as figuratively, your knee, my shoulder. After my (not so) spectacular fall and slide to a screeching halt on Friday mornings commute. My realization that I had bent my shiny new rear derailleur exactly one gear to the left when I managed to shift over top of my lowest gear preparing for a climb on the commute home was a surprise. A liberal application of a large flat blade screwdriver repaired the damage and I thought all was well until Mondays commute.

Click, Click Click… The whole way in, Click Click Click, and it was worse on the ride home, I had planned to do some extra pathway distance, but click, click, click was driving me insane! What did I break? What happened? It’s only a week old! Did I damage my new baby? I stopped and inspected everything that i could, nothing lose, nothing obviously wrong. I figured out that it only happened on the down stroke of my right foot. I unclipped each foot in turn and verified that only right side power would cause the click, I had a damaged rigth pedal to go along with my formerly damaged derailleur . Click, click, click… I made it home at the absolute end of my whits, removed the pedal from my mountain bike, mounted it to the new bike and went for a quick ride, blissful silence!

I could try to claim the clicking as warantee, but it wasn’t happening before the crash (i don’t think but it may have already started), so I can’t blame Shimano in good conscience. I will pick up a new set of pedals, unless someone has a slightly used right Shimano SPD pedal lying around :)

]]> By: Chris http://ride.forgecycle.com/2012/06/25/fool-me-once/#comment-514 Chris Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:33:41 +0000 http://ride.forgecycle.com/?p=690#comment-514 I laughed out loud all the way through this, reading in your voice, “listening” to your story as only you could tell it. Glad you’re not more permanently injured. Thanks for the pre-bed giggle.

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