Bike Euthanasia

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So I started cycleing to work after moving house last year which is great 'cos I;m fitter but my bike is a 10 year old peugot mountain bike that got loads of use for a few years and then less for a few more and sicne using it again I've spent a good 100 notes on repairs (new chain and cogs, axle etc). now the brakes aren't working and I'm thinking of buying a new one but am torn by the fact that I've just spent all this cash and maybe it'll be fine if I replace the brakes - or maybe I'll just have to replace other bits as well.....

So should I chuck it and buy a new one or grimly press on?

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Buy a new one. My watch finally committed hari kari last night.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

What's hari kari?

*runs*

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

But buying a new one is wasteful so I'll go to hell - or maybe need the €450 for a life saving operation. Try harder to convince me that I'm talking crap there.

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Buy a new old bike?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know, to be honest. it's one of those words/phrases I've heard lots and kind of understand and have so appropriated. I think it's some kidn of honourable Japanese suicide thing, like falling on your sword. Anyway, it fell apart. Literally. Bits are dropping off.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be happy to give up on it if it went and fell apart totally as then I'd get a new one but this bit by bit thing means it is much less obvious what the wise course of action is.

And a new old bike would surely have the same potential for worn out parts - I'm not gonna do that.

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

My left nipple must have punctured your brain - that's harakiri i.e a Japanese term for ritual suicide by self-disembowlment on a sword.

Quite a watch you had there Nick!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer the sound of hari kari. Sounds like food.

The watch is dying in the most bizarre manner imaginable - after I'd been swimming I retrieved the watch from the locker to find the 12 mark and the name tag had fallen off the face, and were battering around the watch-face under the glass. Now the little gold rim round the day and date has fallen off as well, and they keep getting caught in the hands and stopping it turning. Fucking thing. I went six months at uni with a stopped watch, Marwood-style, professing to people that I "cared not for time," pompous little existential prat I was at 19.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Harry Curry? It would have to involve HP sauce, wouldn't it?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

dictionary.com:

harakiri

n : (Japan) ritual suicide by self-disembowlment on a sword
[syn: harikari]

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

harakiri

Hara-kiri \Ha"ra-ki`ri\, n. [Jap., stomach cutting.] Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. --W. E. Griffis.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Yukio Mishima to thread.

― Jack Battery-pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

What this means then is that I'm right, que?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(lara, i saw that immediately after posting the other definition 8) i like the way it seems to literally translate as stomach cutting)

er, anyway. i'd plump for just new brakes. but then i am both a) keen on recycling and b) cheap.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

If you've spent 100 quid on it, there *shouldn't* be too much wrong w/it. Brakes are fairly straightforward, esp if they're cantilevers (they probably will be) I see a set of 4 (IE 2 pairs) of decent (IE not the cheap ass sh!t you'll find on cheapie bikes) unbranded cantilever calipers for 11.95, inner cables are a quid each, outer casing 35p a foot, I'd probably charge 20 quid all in, incl fitting, assuming yer levers are OK. That's assuming you actuallky need yer brakes replaced, which you possibly don't. Don't let anyone talk you into fitting v-brakes at a higher cost, coz cantis work just as well for street riding. The upside of an older bike is that it won't have shimano 9-speed gears, which are a real money pit when they go wrong. Older shimano gear has a lot of slop, and will continue working even if slightly out of adjustment. Email me if u have any questions (BTW I do this for a living!!)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"I see" = "I sell", obv.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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