Working on bikes and components that are not very precious and/or delicate makes you more relaxed and probably is the best way to start hands-on learning. If you have no desire whatsoever to have one more bike and just want to work on your Rivendell, you will progress and learn slower by a factor of ten or more probably...
Any old scrap MTB is 98% the same as a custom Rivendell. (Much like the differences in the genome between chimpanzees and humans, that small difference have a huge impact on the appearance... :) ) All the nuts and bolts are the same, so I suggest buying a cheap 80's-90's MTB in bad condition and start fixing it, Riv' it up with a higher handlebar and so. Johan Larsson, Sweden On Friday, December 5, 2014 6:25:42 AM UTC+1, lungimsam wrote: > > I can do some stuff on my bikes. Setting up cockpits and saddle/seatpost, > brake lever/caliper/housing/cable installation and adjustment, pedals, > shifter lever installation and adjustment, fender/rack installations, > cassette/chain swapping, etc. The more basic stuff. > > But I haven't dared to do anything with bb's, cranksets, wheel > building/truing, headset adjustment, derailer installation. Just don't > wanna mess anything up. > But I want to learn to do this stuff so I don't have to depend on the LBS > for things. > > What's a good way to go about doing these more difficult things without > damaging anything? Books and websites are helpful, but I still don't have > the confidence to mess with the aforementioned stuff. > > Buy a beater and wrench away on it? But a lot of old road bike beaters > don't match the type of components and frame of the RBW bikes and wheels, > so I don't know how helpful that would be to break down and rebuild a > Peugeot (for instance) to help me learn how to do maintenance on my > Rivbikes. > > Any ideas? How'd you learn? > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
