Lately I've been having a harder and harder time biking. I was wondering if I was out of shape or something, but that didn't make sense. I didn't really know what it was until I was biking home on Friday and my rear wheel feel off. Well, I guess the wheel just came apart from the axle, but it sucks when you have to walk your bike home.
I guess that the difficulty biking should have indicated to me that the bearing was going. I don't seem to pick up on these types of things until I have gone through it once. :-/ It's probably time that I buy a new(er) bike that will use all the gears and be able to brake well. My plan right now is to strip down the other bike, repaint it and build it up with new parts. It's a super comfy frame for me, it's just the parts on it are not super. Now I have a winter project and I'll have a house this winter to do the work in. :-D
Wow, that must have been a pretty old bike, or you must have put it through a lot of abuse for the rear axle to break.
ReplyDeleteYa, the bikes prob 20+ years old. Nice frame on it though.
ReplyDeleteThe axle itself (steel rod) didn't break, the wheel is attached via a bearing (I believe). So that part separated from the axle. Good times, good times.