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Re: [ST] Abuse and neglect
- Subject: Re: [ST] Abuse and neglect
- From: Bryce <bster13@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:13:53 -0700 (PDT)
throw a bottle of chevron carburator cleaner in there.
THat should help clean out any gunk in the carbs that
might be in there short of a removal and manual carb
cleaning.
- --- pattib@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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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