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kept him on the road

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

The Boy was pushing his bike pretty hard and had the chain "fall" (he can't describe it better than that, I think it skipped). He took a pretty bad tumble but seems to be fine. The bike has some broken parts and the handlebars were turned 90°. I had to replace a small and usually innocuous part that got smashed; it's the threaded-in tensioner on the brake lever that helps you fine-tune the brakes.

This happened on his way to school, and by evening I had a new brake lever and a new brake line installed and had straightened and tightened up the handlebars. I fine-tuned the brakes and he says it's better than ever. I was happy to think of the spare brake lever that I had in the attic, a lucky spare from when I was showing him this kind of repairs back in Toronto with Jon's old mountain bike. The total spend on today's repairs was ¥600.