Haibike crank drive Yamaha and £100 second hand rear hub Oxygen
This should have been five days of going 14 miles to work cross country on my Yamaha Haibike, and then back 10 miles home on the road.
However before my third trip to work I noticed my front tyre needed some air and pumped it up. After finishing my shift I found a flat front tyre, and as it was the small hours of the next day and I was very tired I took the chance that it was the valve in the tube playing up after I had pumped the tyre up, and just pumped it up and rode home.
The next day it was clear that the tyre had lost air and although it could still be the valve playing up the odds were now on a slow puncture. I ride with a puncture resistant tyre with a tube on the front, and a tubeless set up on the rear, and such is the effectiveness of modern puncture resistant tyres that I am completely taken aback when I get a puncture.
I decided to leave that repair until I was off work and whistled on to the field of play my super sub David (named after David Fairclough the Liverpool super sub), my £100 second hand Oxygen Emate City of 2011 vintage.
The £100 ebike had not been used since the 22nd of June for my work commute, due to a run of late shifts and a summer holiday, so would 10 and a half weeks of inactivity have blunted her abilities.
I rode her to work on Saturday and Sunday. Once again I was struck by how relaxing and deceptively quickly she covers the ground. On the first ride to work on Saturday there was a lot of annoying squeaking and metallic creaking, but it did not affect how she rode.
On Sunday morning I quickly diagnosed that the noises were emanating from the ancient original suspension pogo style seat post and simple removed it and squirted some WD40 inside the mechanism and the ride to work on Sunday was blissfully quiet.
I return to work on Thursday for three early turn jobs, so the £100 ebike will be back on duty!
So by the end of my five days of commuting to work my Haibike’s mileage had crept up to 14,126, from when I bought her in March 2015, and the £100 second hand Oxygen to 2,755, from the 500 she had covered when I bought her around September 2018.
It is just over four weeks to go now to when my ebike commuting to work and back days will be no more. I am going to miss my ebike commuting more than the job.
This should have been five days of going 14 miles to work cross country on my Yamaha Haibike, and then back 10 miles home on the road.
However before my third trip to work I noticed my front tyre needed some air and pumped it up. After finishing my shift I found a flat front tyre, and as it was the small hours of the next day and I was very tired I took the chance that it was the valve in the tube playing up after I had pumped the tyre up, and just pumped it up and rode home.
The next day it was clear that the tyre had lost air and although it could still be the valve playing up the odds were now on a slow puncture. I ride with a puncture resistant tyre with a tube on the front, and a tubeless set up on the rear, and such is the effectiveness of modern puncture resistant tyres that I am completely taken aback when I get a puncture.
I decided to leave that repair until I was off work and whistled on to the field of play my super sub David (named after David Fairclough the Liverpool super sub), my £100 second hand Oxygen Emate City of 2011 vintage.
The £100 ebike had not been used since the 22nd of June for my work commute, due to a run of late shifts and a summer holiday, so would 10 and a half weeks of inactivity have blunted her abilities.
I rode her to work on Saturday and Sunday. Once again I was struck by how relaxing and deceptively quickly she covers the ground. On the first ride to work on Saturday there was a lot of annoying squeaking and metallic creaking, but it did not affect how she rode.
On Sunday morning I quickly diagnosed that the noises were emanating from the ancient original suspension pogo style seat post and simple removed it and squirted some WD40 inside the mechanism and the ride to work on Sunday was blissfully quiet.
I return to work on Thursday for three early turn jobs, so the £100 ebike will be back on duty!
So by the end of my five days of commuting to work my Haibike’s mileage had crept up to 14,126, from when I bought her in March 2015, and the £100 second hand Oxygen to 2,755, from the 500 she had covered when I bought her around September 2018.
It is just over four weeks to go now to when my ebike commuting to work and back days will be no more. I am going to miss my ebike commuting more than the job.
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