Re: How many of you own bicycles and make use of them? [message #445300 is a reply to message #445283] |
Fri, 25 March 2011 18:52 |
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R315r4z0r
Messages: 3836 Registered: March 2005 Location: New York
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Glock wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 15:24 | I voted I don't have a bicycle because there was no option for owning one but never riding it. I have a vehicle now, I would never ride bike anywhere. Besides, I like to walk for exercise.
R315r4z0r wrote on Tue, 22 March 2011 13:36 | I haven't rode my own bike in a long time. I used to ride it to and from school every day. But one of the tires is flat and won't hold any air. The nearest bike shop isn't too far away, but definitely not in walking distance. I don't have a car that is big enough for my bike, so it's kind of been sitting in my garage waiting to get repaired.
I do sometimes ride my little brother's or my mom's bike, but not often.
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You could just grab some tires/rims and put them on yourself :S
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I've tried that already once before. But it's a mountain bike and it has a lot of different gears. I'm not very proficient in the mechanical workings of a bike. I mean, if it was a regular single-speed bike... then yeah, no problem, I could have fixed it myself. But it has over 20 gears and the chain is wrapped around them in a specific way.
Once I tried to fix the tire myself and I ended up screwing up the gears that are attached. It ended up costing me more money to get the bike fixed than it would have if I just let them do the tires for me.
And what's really stupid is that when I brought it to the store to get it fixed, they fixed the chain and the gears and filled the tires with air... but they didn't stop the tire leak. So it went flat again and it's been sitting in my garage ever since.
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