[ST] Abuse and neglect

[pattib@xxxxxxxxxx]

I've been a Very Bad bike mommy.

At the end of last year, my job switched from being a ten minute bike
commute to a ten minute public transit commute to a place where I'd
have to arrive by 8:30 a.m. to find bike parking.  Since morning are
just not an option for me, I stopped using the bike daily.

Well, it was winter.  And cold and rainy, and one thing led to another
and I let the bike sit for about two months.  Then I took it out and
rode it a couple of times, and back to the garage I went.

Then life got massively chaotic-- suddenly, I was buying a new house
and moving, plus working my butt off.  I didn't have a lot of time to
ride, so I didn't.  And then I moved and had to move the bike, so I
charged the battery, rode the bike to the new place, and put it in the
garage.

And then it sat some more.  I was still commuting on transit, and most
of the vehicle trips I was taking involved hauling stuff from Home
Depot, so the bike wasn't feasible.


So I finally decided that this was ridiculous, and I really missed
riding, and so I was going to make time.  I charged the battery again.
After about half a minute of cranking, the bike started up and seemed 
to run OK-- I did a couple of laps around the garage as a sanity
check, but didn't take it onto the streets.

Nothing feels wrong-- the brakes are grabby, but they were before too.
(Must fix that.  Grabby brakes are bad.)  It smelled like it was
burning dust off of something for the first minute or so, but that
went away quickly.

So my question is this:  is there anything in particular that I should
be cleaning, changing, replacing, doing, or watching for after letting 
the bike sit that long?  Tires, obviously, but they're fine.  Anything 
else?

- -Patti

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