Noted. Thank goodness spokes, 1/4" ball bearings and crank extractors do grow on trees. At least Mother Nature provides for us some of what we need.
Bill "we're not fighting, we're just stinking up the board unnecessarily" Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:27:24 PM UTC-8, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 12/18/2013 03:16 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > My friend Bobby said earlier (and I quote): "if I were embarking on a > > multi-day tour away from civilization, I'd have a lightweight, compact > > kit with me that would get me through any potential jam with my brakes" > > > > Would you like him to describe the contents of this kit? I'll wager > > that DOT brake fluid is one of the items. Correspondingly, I bet you > > and Jan would carry a brake cable in your kit, since brake cables also > > do not grow on trees (so to speak). > > Tell you what else, shift cables do not grow on trees either. And when > you have front and rear panniers on your bike and you're riding in rural > West Virginia when your shift cable breaks, you will quickly discover, > as I did, that in a town without a bike shop there isn't anything you > can find in a hardware store that will work as a substitute. And > believe you me, picture hanging wire just won't do: I know. I tried. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
