Avg_Joe
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- USA
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- RDU, NC
...for being a complete idiot?
I am proudly a very average Joe and thought I had middling intelligence. Not the brightest bulb / sharpest tool / smartest person, yet I seem destined to continually remind myself of this.
I was cleaning up my Rad Rover this weekend - cleaned the chain well & oiled it as I had gotten into some mud. Took it around my cul-de-sac to make sure everything was ok when done. I had shifted throughout the 7 gears, left it in 1 as I stopped. I looked at the chain etc and something seemed off - the chain was on 2nd. Thought to myself, that's kind of odd. So I rode around again and shifted gears up and down, left it in 1. Chain was still on 2.
I put the chain on the 1st gear, lifted the rear end, turned the pedals, and it immediately went back to 2. Hrm. Rode around the cul-de-sac again, shifting gears, watching the chain. Same.
Then the epiphany came along: adjust the derailleur! WHOA! After dialing it in, I found that when I shifted to 1, the chain actually moved to that gear!
Big deal? I have ~400 miles on this bike and never realized I was never in 1st gear, only ever used 2-7. It's like a whole new bike to me now!![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
![Clinking beer mugs :beers: 🍻](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/1f37b.png)
I am proudly a very average Joe and thought I had middling intelligence. Not the brightest bulb / sharpest tool / smartest person, yet I seem destined to continually remind myself of this.
I was cleaning up my Rad Rover this weekend - cleaned the chain well & oiled it as I had gotten into some mud. Took it around my cul-de-sac to make sure everything was ok when done. I had shifted throughout the 7 gears, left it in 1 as I stopped. I looked at the chain etc and something seemed off - the chain was on 2nd. Thought to myself, that's kind of odd. So I rode around again and shifted gears up and down, left it in 1. Chain was still on 2.
I put the chain on the 1st gear, lifted the rear end, turned the pedals, and it immediately went back to 2. Hrm. Rode around the cul-de-sac again, shifting gears, watching the chain. Same.
Then the epiphany came along: adjust the derailleur! WHOA! After dialing it in, I found that when I shifted to 1, the chain actually moved to that gear!
Big deal? I have ~400 miles on this bike and never realized I was never in 1st gear, only ever used 2-7. It's like a whole new bike to me now!
![Clinking beer mugs :beers: 🍻](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/1f37b.png)