A good solid mid pack start in B grade, then a dodgy gear change on the first lap crunched a link in the chain. The furore that is crit racing in the early stages, I had no idea & labored through some pretty 2nd hand gear changes & dismissed the incessant chain jumping & crunching as dirt in the cassette that’ll eventually clear out. Start of the 2nd lap I couldn’t hold the large chainwheel & the amount of ghost shifting happening out on the cassette had me free spinning more than drive. After the penny dropped as well as the rest of the field, I coasted to a stop to suss it out.
Yep, one of the plates on a chain link has totally given out , holding on by the remnants of the distorted link. I coasted back to the start/finish & waiting for the race to finish before I fished around for a chain breaker off someone to drop the stuffed link & run a SRAM tool-less link.
Jumped onto the ‘Bus’ for the ride home, there were about 15 of us headed towards the city from Westgate. At the Waterfront @ Docklands an area was fenced off for a launch event for the new Mini Clubman, but as we rolled along the water’s edge along the ‘boards’ we pretty much rode straight through it all in a pack, which was kinda funny & irresponsible ,but hey, it’s a public space…..
Saturday 8th March, wife & I rode out to Healesville on the Hornet for breaky with the family. Noticed a tappety noise on a stone cold engine & also a little bit under load below 3500rpm, might need to do the clearances. After doing the clearances on the Ducati Desmo system, everything else seems almost pedestrian. Might Goggle it & see how straight forward it is. Only difference between me & a shop mechanic doing it is that the mechanic has the tools & the ‘feel’ which comes from experience. Well, it’s never too late to pick up something new, we’ll see how I go
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