(01-24-2020, 07:33 PM)Papa Dom Wrote: [quote='CharleyFarley' pid='37216' dateline='1578921561']
...During the night I woke up and realized I hadn't removed the wheel magnet nor the sensor unit from the fork. ... so I contacted him and in minutes he responded and said he'll bring the parts over. Life is good to dummies like me!
Quote:oh, Charley. this one is funny because the same exact thing happened to me, light years ago. luckily the buyer (or happy free wheel receiver) was a friend of mine and I got the wheel magnet back within two week. would have been much faster, but I did not go biking for few days and he even did not notice that there is something small and black on his wheel spoke.
It's easily done, Papa Dom, as we both now know. A new magnet was around $6 but the sender unit on the fork was around $41. I'm happy as a pig in spite of the weather!
Quote:good job on saving Walmart's mountain bike. someone will make a use of it! and twist shifters for kids is a no-no for me, too much space for problems. there are many posts about this subject such as this one https://forums.bikeride.com/thread-801.html
Yes, I had seen the other post. That's what make me wonder if the Walmart bike had the badly designed one. Apparently, it did. It works as it ought to work, now, but I agree with you, it's not good on a kid's bike.
I took delivery of a new Electra cruiser, last Saturday, from my LBS. It's a great cruiser but the bars were 28" wide, way too wide for me. And the 7-speed shifter was the twist job. I knew that would have to go. So I bought narrower bars - 24" - and a lever shifter. I just now came in from putting them on. I don't know why bike makers put twist shifters on because they cost about the same as the lever type, in Shimano, that is.
It's all fun and games until you get on to try it out and find the shifter doesn't work. I knew, beforehand, that a cruiser gear cable is longer than a standard one. It meant taking the cable out of the twist shifter and putting it in the lever shifter. I've done them, before, but somehow, I missed a tiny hole inside the new shifter. The cable went in but it didn't hook onto the right part inside. So back into the porch to do the job right, and hoping the mosquitoes didn't find me. It's a mild, humid night, 70º just right for skeeters wanting blood. Anyway, it's all good, now. Tomorrow I'll give the bike a coat of wax polish. Probably polish the fatty, too.
And I shortened the front brake cable while I had it torn down. The guy from the bike shop, when he delivered it, pointed out that the brake cable was sticking way out into space. I would have thought the maker might have had ready made shorter outer cables, but perhaps not, so they just stuck on what they had.
All I need, now, is a means of attaching the tire pump to the frame. I ordered a pair of mounting blocks that fasten to the frame with Velcro. I called the dealer to see if it would affect the integrity of the frame by drilling and inserting the threaded doo-dads for mounting a water bottle or pump. He said it shouldn't be done. I don't ride very far with the cruiser but I still don't want to have to walk the bike home with a flat tire even for one mile.