Today I had a wee epiphany (if epiphanies can be small). As my lovely Condor Italia RC (in beautiful
Pearl E White) continued to give me a little grief in changing from (what I
technically call) ‘little cog to big cog where the pedal thingies are at the
front’ , I took her back to the shop to see if they could help. The issue from my perspective was the
movement I had to make with my left hand to shift the beautifully Italian
crafted Campagnolo Veloce gear leaver to move from one cog to the other. .. in short,
my little fingers did not seem to want to stretch the virtual 90 degree angle I
needed to sweep the lever across to get to that big cog (and hence have the
ability to speed off at those all-important traffic lights etc.).
So, off went ‘Pearl E’ to the mechanic and, very soon
afterwards, Julian (my new best friend at Condor!) came back with an update for
me. As it transpires, the left hand
lever did not have to be pushed the whole 90 degrees in one fell swoop, I could
move to the big cog by clicking the lever not once, not twice, but three times
in much smaller movements! This was great
news .. so I rode home this afternoon, with ‘un deux trois’ going through my
head, the gears shifting easily, my little hands being happy that they are not
being stretched to breaking point. And
hopefully the cat will not sink … that’s all folks (well, for today anyway!)…
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