The creak, creak from previous posts developed into a bit more of a clunk, clunk towards the end of the week so I knew something was up with the bicycle.
Was hard to work out where it was coming from though as it was only sometimes when I was being particularly forceful on the pedals that it occurred.
Anyway – to cut a long story short – the bottom bracket (I don’t know why it gets called that when its actually the bearing that the cranks/pedals/chainset attaches to) was decidedly notchey so the princely sum of £9.95 was shelled out to buy a new one from Edinburgh-Bicycle.
It gave me an excuse to clean the chain and cogs as they were particularly caked in grime.
All nice and clean and smooth now – next on the agenda is a new seatpost as I overtightened the seat clamp and bent/weakened the clamp. New parts are on their way though.
Obviously when I was at the bike shop I had to buy some other stuff – well just one other thing this time – a bicycle rack for the back of the car so we can take the bikes further afield and cycle from there. We will see how it goes.
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