Thanks everyone, appreciate the well-wishes because this is truly a pain in the ass.
And Leah, to answer your questions: 1) I have no idea what kind of mileage I've clocked, but for a time I was commuting anywhere from 5-9 mi/day five days/wk for months on end, so even at a conservative estimate of 2,000 miles/year I've probably done about 26k. That doesn't include longer rides, going to and fro from different events and errands, etc. Could be more! I never bothered to get a computer. 2) The paint job is a custom color I chose when I ordered the frame (I wasn't wild about the sky blue, to be honest), although I did inquire about a raw steel/clear coat combo initially. One of these days I'm going to have the whole frame stripped, shipped, and repainted, but for now I just gotta get it out of the shop! And PIAW - agree, unless you're regularly making adjustments to the cockpit these things fall by the wayside. I didn't mess with the stem until recently, when I tried to raise it in order to adjust my reach while I deal with this shoulder issue. Tug at the sweater and the whole thing unravels, as they say. On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 10:49:44 AM UTC-4 pi...@gmail.com wrote: > A seized quill stem is one of the problems the aheadset style stem was > designed to solve. In time, water, sweat, etc., goes down between the neck > of the stem and the headset entryway and causes galvanic corrosion. The > preventive measure is to remove the stem once a year, regrease it, and put > it back in, but of course if the bike's working and you don't need to mess > with stem height it's very easy to forget (I haven't done it in years and I > have to put a calendar entry for myself to remember to do it now that I do > have a bike with a quill stem). You're supposed to do it with the seat post > too. > > -- 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/e27cd4b1-6249-46fb-8948-eea2ea9e3db6n%40googlegroups.com.
