B.K. Hosken
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Do they come in 27", or just 26"?
Do they come in 27", or just 26"?
That's what I'm hoping for with the Toyota Prius, and all the other small economical cars being bought up today. People are buying them up, and when they realize they are not sports cars and are slow, they will decide they are not fun anymore and sell them. Mostly rich people are buying them anyway, since around here you can't even find a USED Prius for less than $25K...the new ones are $28K-$30K.
As far as tires go, I'm looking for a beach cruiser or mountain bike to put my motor on. I will break it in on the "ten speed", but that bike is less than comfortable so I will move the motor to something easier to ride, more upright and a bigger seat.
I got my staton up and running saturday, went 5 miles, I was looking at my chain when I should have been looking at the road, hit apretty bad pot hole and got a flat, No problem to change, but I didn't put the masterlink clip on securely. 5 miles down the road my chain flew off, luckily I had my chainbreaker and a few spare links.I got my first flat today coming in to work...and man did that suck! I was about half way to work when I thought I heard a short hiss, when I looked down to see my back tire was indeed flat. Bogus! So I pulled over and changed it out, which took me about a half hour (rack mount kit...first time changing a flat with this rig, and I found that although adjustable wrenches fit everything, they don't always fit well everyWHERE! So I'm going to toss a couple of axle nut wrenches in with my tools. Good news is I had a spare tube and pump, etc with me. Bad news is after changing it all out I somehow messed up my deraileur a bit....didn't have time to figure it out as I was already going to be late (but was only a couple minutes late). Ah well....it was bound to happen! Whatever I ran over was pretty substantial, as it put a cut almost 1/2" long through my kevlar reinforced tires. I cut a piece off of the old tube and put it between the new tube and the inside of the tire to give some additional protection to the new tube.
Warner