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05-23-2004, 01:48 PM

On 22 May 2004 21:59:14 GMT, dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:

> Was cycling up a short but steep hill today. Went to click down a
> gear. All of a sudden no forward momentum of bike, but a blur of
> whizzing pedals. Chain had come off. Cue frantic, wimpy girlie wails
> as I realise my predicament as the bike stalls and I try to unclip
> foot from pedal doing what feels like 180rpm...

Here's something someone taught me when my wife and I started to ride
the tandem. Just shift back in the other direction and the chain
should go back on. On a hill this may not be a good thing to do as you
stall but it is useful in a paceline where stopping is bad. Also it
doesn't work if the chain gets jammed.

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05-23-2004, 01:48 PM	#12 (permalink)
Neil Cherry Posts: n/a	Re: Oops... On 22 May 2004 21:59:14 GMT, dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote: > Was cycling up a short but steep hill today. Went to click down a > gear. All of a sudden no forward momentum of bike, but a blur of > whizzing pedals. Chain had come off. Cue frantic, wimpy girlie wails > as I realise my predicament as the bike stalls and I try to unclip > foot from pedal doing what feels like 180rpm... Here's something someone taught me when my wife and I started to ride the tandem. Just shift back in the other direction and the chain should go back on. On a hill this may not be a good thing to do as you stall but it is useful in a paceline where stopping is bad. Also it doesn't work if the chain gets jammed. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ (Text only) http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge) http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II)