keno
06-09-2004, 06:45 AM
Does anyone know where I can get one of these? When I look on the various online bike sites, they refer to measurements and codes which have no meaning to me related to the solution of my problem. I need help.
How it happened. Yesterday I set out on a 40-mile loop. I was on the shoulder doing about 20 mph in 53/12 or something like it with a car on my left on a 40mph road. The car began to slow suddenly and I then saw why. A long train of goslings was winding across the road and I was about stuff one or two and mama and papa were watching. I braked and down shifted, and somehow slack was created in the chain at obviously the wrong place and the link popped out. I went searching and found part of it, but not enough of it to be useful. I left the chain on the curb, unfortunately about 20 miles from home.
I walked and coasted about 6 miles with my left thumb out trying to hitch a ride. After what appeared to be about 200 panel trucks, pickup trucks, station wagons, suvs, and old Pontiacs with enormous trunks, finally a good guy in a pickup truck with a rubber bed liner picked me up and brought me within about half a mile from home. (BTW, the one person who frosted me was the biker down in his aerobars on the downside of the steepest climb with me on the other side of the road walking my bike up it and who didn't even acknowledge me let alone ask if everything was OK, notwithstanding the fact that it was not to the most casual observer).
I was headed into New York City for a dinner late in the afternoon and decided to drive to where I had left the chain after having said a brief, monosyllabic then eternal farewell to it and to Mr. Wipperman. Apparently nobody wanted it any more than I did earlier in the day, so I have the remains and thought I might bring them back to life, such as it might be. I am aware of the great chain debate on this forum and may find it and read it now that I have a rooting interest.
keno
How it happened. Yesterday I set out on a 40-mile loop. I was on the shoulder doing about 20 mph in 53/12 or something like it with a car on my left on a 40mph road. The car began to slow suddenly and I then saw why. A long train of goslings was winding across the road and I was about stuff one or two and mama and papa were watching. I braked and down shifted, and somehow slack was created in the chain at obviously the wrong place and the link popped out. I went searching and found part of it, but not enough of it to be useful. I left the chain on the curb, unfortunately about 20 miles from home.
I walked and coasted about 6 miles with my left thumb out trying to hitch a ride. After what appeared to be about 200 panel trucks, pickup trucks, station wagons, suvs, and old Pontiacs with enormous trunks, finally a good guy in a pickup truck with a rubber bed liner picked me up and brought me within about half a mile from home. (BTW, the one person who frosted me was the biker down in his aerobars on the downside of the steepest climb with me on the other side of the road walking my bike up it and who didn't even acknowledge me let alone ask if everything was OK, notwithstanding the fact that it was not to the most casual observer).
I was headed into New York City for a dinner late in the afternoon and decided to drive to where I had left the chain after having said a brief, monosyllabic then eternal farewell to it and to Mr. Wipperman. Apparently nobody wanted it any more than I did earlier in the day, so I have the remains and thought I might bring them back to life, such as it might be. I am aware of the great chain debate on this forum and may find it and read it now that I have a rooting interest.
keno