Bike minutiae:

[jack]

Bike minutiae:

* The back light sometimes goes off when cycling. I infer the batteries jar momentarily loose when going over a bump, and the "on" state is lost. They feel a bit loose. Is there an obvious fix? I tried taping the batteries in place and it made no difference.

(I sort of want some electrically conducting putty to go between the battery and the contact :))

* Last month, the front gear cable snapped off from the handlebars. The bike man from university cycles fixed everything (thank you!). This week, the rear gear cable snapped. I'll take it back and get it fixed too, but any suggestions as to why?

Is anything likely to cause both to fail? Did something snag the chain? I might have changed gear up from the highest gear on one of them, but I don't think I did on both of them. Did someone sabotage my bike, but sabotage the gears instead of the breaks? Do the cables just last a very specific number of months??

Comments

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

stuff paper in the batteries?

my gear cable last year broke a year to the day that I'd replaced it (though it had been going for a couple of years before the previous one broke). it then took me most of a year to get the gears working again, due to being excessively lazy.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hm, maybe it's a seasonal issue...? :)