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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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