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This afternoon, to get out and enjoy the perfect (at last!) weather, I went for a ride on my motorized bicycle.  I went down a few blocks, was going reasonably fast, and suddenly felt my back tire seize up.  I skidded for a long time.  Long enough that I expected to hear a tire popping sound.  The tensioner that takes up the slack in the chain had moved enough to cause the chain to come off the back sprocket.  I am going to have to re-engineer that mechanism.  Meanwhile, my wheel has been taken way out of true.  I need to get a spoke wrench tomorrow.

Filed under: Transportation on February 7th, 2009