2 While I do remember that this bike is le Spiff for it has NO CHAIN...I need to know what sort of tool/s are commonly used to FIX chains when they, er, slip? Is that what they do? Non-bike-riding-person here, info needed for a storybit.
As a general rule, no tools are required to get a bike chain back on the gears, whether it's a multi-gear bike with a derailer, in which case it's super-easy because of the slack the derailer provides, or a single-sprocket bike - either way, there's enough side to side play in the chain that just holding it the way you want it to go with fingers works fine, as long as you're careful to do so in such wise that the fingers aren't caught, and you don't mind them getting a little oily. If the bike has backpedal brakes you either have to get the rear wheel off the ground somehow to spin freely or shuffle foreward with it as the bike moves, but caliper brakes and a disengsaged ratchet on backpedal (agian, a more common attribute of derailer bikes, though sport/tricking single sprocket bikes and many internal-gearing three speeds have calipers) it is, again, super-easy. In either case, it typically takes longer to get off the bike and back on than to actually fix the chain.
- ClassicDrogn, spender of several summers mountain biking up and down New Hampshire hills.
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Date: 2005-07-01 11:37 pm (UTC)2 While I do remember that this bike is le Spiff for it has NO CHAIN...I need to know what sort of tool/s are commonly used to FIX chains when they, er, slip? Is that what they do? Non-bike-riding-person here, info needed for a storybit.
Bike chains off the sprocket
Date: 2005-07-03 04:02 pm (UTC)- ClassicDrogn, spender of several summers mountain biking up and down New Hampshire hills.
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Date: 2005-07-02 12:16 pm (UTC)