I take refuge in the 'maybe' part of that rule. I'm not a mechanic, I'm a hobbyist. My bike tinkering used to be largely due to having non-standard ideas for bike setup, and then it was due to being fairly poor, and now I just like it.
You do need to surrender ego when you step off the edge into the unknown. And again when you're doing stuff "you know how to do." I'm always prepared to go down to the shop afterward and say, "Hey. Funny story. See this?" Philip Santa Rosa, CA On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 3:23:48 PM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > A good rule to bear in mind is, if you don't know what you're doing maybe > you should just let the LBS take care of it. > On 5/13/20 2:54 PM, Joe Bernard wrote: > > The learning curve for cranks and bottom brackets can be quite steep and > expensive. Especially back in my day when Google was a book or magazine page > you tracked down and hoped you understood the grainy pics. Good times! > > > -- > Steve Palincsar > Alexandria, Virginia > USA > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/03855103-c06f-4b3c-be53-6a711148637d%40googlegroups.com.
