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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
idontunderstand:
Back from Lisbon. It was awesome and recommended but I really, really suck at writing reviews. So I'll skip that and just say the weather was nice, the people were too and it's a very beautiful city. It's probably the first "Mediterranean" city I've been in that I'd actually could consider living in (if Sweden wasn't so darned comfy, of course!).
Though I have to say, I really wish I'd read this:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 24 Oct 2012, 16:51 ---If you get a chance, Porto is a fantastic hillside city, and I found the food is much better there than in Lisbon. And oh god, the food! We ate custard pastries every morning for breakfast while we were there, and amazingly nothing upset my stomach, which is an accomplishment in and of itself; my stomach is extremely finicky.
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...before I left. The places where we found something to eat was seldom more but steak and fries, except for when it was "genuine Portuguese food", where they put a fried egg on top of the steak. Whatever, I really shouldn't have let the girlfriend pick the restaurants...
They had the most AWESOME coffee houses I've ever experienced though. Each one had its own specialty and I had stuff like lemon mousse with ginger flavor with an espresso, and pastries I've never seen before in my cake-loving life.
I always end up talking about food when I talk about my travels. Guess I should go to Paris or something.. for now, Lissabon rules though!
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 31 Oct 2012, 18:26 ---Older or well-used bike chains can actually stretch, and sometimes require taking a link out of the chain and putting it back together, or getting a new chain.
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For reasons like these I carry a chain rivet extractor (aka a chain link tool, I think) and about a foot of some leftover replacement chain for fresh links in a tool pouch under the saddle.
Putting a fallen chain back on is usually easy. Force the link on at the top of a chainring (this is easier than wrapping it all the way around the chainring). Then turn the crank, voila!
LTK:
I put the chain back on today, and was able to ride the 300 meters back to my apartment without it falling off again. The chain doesn't really have a lot of slack - maybe there's about 1-2 centimeters of room to pull it up at the bottom - so maybe I just need to be more careful. I can still grease it when I leave tomorrow. Or would that do more harm than good?
Carl-E:
If it's falling off without slack, it's probably from a crooked sprocket or a bent tooth or two on a sprocket. You'll need to sit down with it and find it.
Or it could be that the chain's too stiff from rust? Maybe some oil's in order after all!
pwhodges:
Even if it's not stiff, it'll slip more snugly between the sprocket teeth if oiled.
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