This is my bike, well one of them. It is a Liv Invite, sometimes known as Invi for short, but more often referred to as 'the pink one’
We’ve been on over 6000 miles together, including Ride London last year. She’s been brilliant, but is now showing her age.
She would usually be going to the bike shop right now, to get a service and some TLC, but due to a small thing that has changed the shape of day to day life, the bike shops are a little busy with fixing Key workers bikes and building new ones - but let’s not go into that one.
Having chatted to a few friends, I decided that changing the chain wasn’t going to be beyond me - so hit the online shop (my only option at the time) and ordered some bits.
New chain - Tick.
I then decided to tackle the really poor indexing. Was it the cassette? This was getting scary!
So after finding some excellent video tutorials, I ordered a new one and the tools to fit it too.
But it was still jumping.
After guidance from more video tutorials - I realised part of the problem was the mech hanger was bent.
So back to the online shop for more tools. (These arrived much quicker than the new hanger which I had also ordered just in case.)
That wasn’t as hard as I thought. So tried indexing again. It was still jumping, but better than before. I gave in and took a trip to the local bike shop (LBS)
The chap was great. Though he was really busy, he took the time to change the gear cable - which was not easy by any means.
He also fitted a new rear mech for me. I have to say I was a little gutted about that as I really fancied giving it a go myself - what is going on? I don’t usually want to mess with things - but this was becoming fun.
But... the mech is the wrong one. The LBS was great - they didn’t have the right one and couldn’t get hold of one, so gave me my money back and said to keep using the mech till I could source another. So I looked. I found and I ordered.
Stage 1 of TLC complete.
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