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Cake day: January 13th, 2024

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  • Get a toplight on your helmet (combined front and back light) leave it on there, except when it needs charging so that you ALWAYS have a light available. It’s surprisingly easy to forget your other lights in the morning.

    I set the toplight to flash, so wherever you look, there is a flashing light. The amount of times I ‘surprise’ a driver who is about to pull out, just by looking at them has probably saved me a lot of grief over the years.











  • For the most part, replace it if/when the chain starts slipping. It normally starts on the small rings on the back.

    Get a chain wear tool (just a piece of metal with 2 lengths), replace the chain if its beyond the second wear mark, this will mean the chainrings get worn down a lot less. having a worn chain will trash your chainrings relatively fast.

    Its not something that will break suddenly, it just gets more and more annoying. My bike is at almost 13,000Km and is on its second set of chainrings.