Besides Haydn and myself, is anyone else on the verge of not completing the Col Season Starter Challenge?
Haha yeah the weather ruined it for me as the only outside riding I did was my <1 hour per day commuting. Did a total of 4h 24min in the challenge, if I'd have hit a saturday social ride that would've been another 4-5 but the weather decided otherwise!
With the Zwift time I actually did nearly 14 hours over the period, one of those which was a shorter weekend than normal (only 1 hour) and missed 2 days commuting due to a training course...
Maybe next time!
Thanks guys, probably just go to local shop to order the bolts.
My mates managed to find my screwdriver now!
My LBS gave me one and some tips on how to remove my stuck bolt but hadn't really got them for sale apart from buying some pads... So I sourced my own!
The Shimano pads I got seem to come with them, the uberbike pads I was swapping out back then didn't. Going back to Shimano shortly anyway as my rear is rubbish again after 1500 miles. Really don't rate those uberbike ones, less mileage than a rim pad!
So the sausages at halfords didn't set up my derailleurs correctly on a new bike. The front one rubbed on the large ring which the guy put the bike back in the stand but I rode it to work and back today and it's definitely still there. Chain skips on the highest gears as well. Fun times. £400 bike etc I'd still expect gears to be set up and indexed correctly if I'm told that that is something they've done in the handover check list.
They also have the audacity to say their warranty depends on proper servicing, by them
. Going to stay off it for now and get the tools out over the weekend
Halfrauds always pretty poor at that. Their trained monkeys are trained to setup a new bike on a stand, sometimes to really tight tolerances, so as soon as it's got some weight on the saddle and some pressure on the wheel things rub.
My Carrera I bought from them in 2009 went back 4 times to 3 different Halfords mechanics due to chain rub (for free). Being an utter noob and getting sick of taking it back I learnt how to do it myself through trial and error in probably less then a total of 2 hours of fiddling spread over a week of commuting after each fiddle. :cool
Valuable skill and certainly worth learning yourself. Once you do you're already more advanced than the majority of Halfords mechanics (who only seem to build bikes from instructions, not ride them, in my experience).
As it turns out, about 5 mins after reading the posts on here, a pair of BR-RS785 calipers for £20 came up on bikeRadar forum.....which I got.
Bargain! Congrats