Norrin Radd
Tour Winner
as part of my physio for my knee my doctor said a push bike would be a good idea . so a trip online to free-cycle to see if anybody was getting shot of one ,well my luck was out as somebody did ,so i have now got a 21 speed mountain bike. dont know if its any good as a make ,the frame says Claude Butler.
anyway the brakes were shot so i bought a new set of cables and stripped the old cables off ,sorted some new brake blocks and set to work to put the new cables on .looked dead easy job on youtube and being a bloke that can do this sort of thing standing on my head ,it was going to take ten minutes tops.
well....................
first and only problem i came across was the lack of a decent pair of wire cutters, no probs ,a quick trip to halfords for a pair ,£2.49p later im back home and away we didnt go.
they were bloody useless. i did in the end get the job done but what a struggle to cut a bit of wire . the inner cable was fine but the outer ,what a game that was,it just kept crushing up and would not let me cut it .
now what do you hardened cyclists do for new cables .how and what do you use to cut the outer cables ?
i have got another bike to do yet and dont want to go through my repertoire of swear words again as the neighbours must think i have tourets.
[its my sons bike that i have got to do ]
any help gratefully accepted.
anyway the brakes were shot so i bought a new set of cables and stripped the old cables off ,sorted some new brake blocks and set to work to put the new cables on .looked dead easy job on youtube and being a bloke that can do this sort of thing standing on my head ,it was going to take ten minutes tops.
well....................
first and only problem i came across was the lack of a decent pair of wire cutters, no probs ,a quick trip to halfords for a pair ,£2.49p later im back home and away we didnt go.
they were bloody useless. i did in the end get the job done but what a struggle to cut a bit of wire . the inner cable was fine but the outer ,what a game that was,it just kept crushing up and would not let me cut it .
now what do you hardened cyclists do for new cables .how and what do you use to cut the outer cables ?
i have got another bike to do yet and dont want to go through my repertoire of swear words again as the neighbours must think i have tourets.
[its my sons bike that i have got to do ]
any help gratefully accepted.