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Re: [ST] Abuse and neglect



Unless the place you were storing it was unusually damp the bike is probably 
fine.  Brakes and fuel are always the first to go.  Actually I have seen
3 your old gasoline work just fine but I wouldn't make a habit of it. The
brake cylinders can corode if not used and lead to leaks but roughly 9 to
10 months you ignored your bike really isn't that long.

When is the next gathering for lunch?  Seems like its been almost a year.

Wes

On Sun Sep 22 at 01:05:44 PM, 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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