With the tune uo

@Gaius Mucius Scaevola What kind of bike? If you bought it from Walmart, it is not worth fixing. You’ll probably need chain rings, cassette, chain, tires, tubes, brake pads, wheel truing, shifter cable and housing replacement. That’s all before you even start “tuning”. The wheel hubs might need a rebuild from loss of grease and gain of rust.

It could literally cost you two bicycles and weeks worth of effort to get it running like new.

I can take a picture when I get home

I know I got it off of Craigslist and it's at least a halfway decent bike

Truing wheels alone is a complicated art form.

Easiest would be to buy a whole new group set from eBay, then let the bike shop handle the wheel truing and any bearing replacements. You will need to buy tools and accessories too.

How long has it been since you last rode it?

Months, if not more than a year

I was recently added, am also a Bike Mechanic.

@ me for slow response.

Also @Tanner - SC and @Gaius Mucius Scaevola ParkTool has a YouTube channel with a video archive for almost every repair.

@Gaius Mucius Scaevola Are you still looking for some bike help?

@Freiheit - CA yeah definitely

once the weather gets a bit warmer I want to fix up my bike

not just to have a bike to ride, but to learn how to fix a bike in the process

Let me know when ready. Can give pointers.

Posting a PSA in here, please let me know if its too graphic / breaks any rules and I’ll remove. Any of you guys that are in an industrial field no doubt get your PPE policies drilled into you over and over. But it’s all too easy to neglect that when you’re working at home. Almost lost my thumb this weekend, taking apart an automatic louver/damper motor, and I neglected to relive the tension from the spring inside. Had I been wearing gloves it probably wouldn’t have been as bad.

Friday night trip to the ER for a severed tendon and artery, severed the nerve also, Dr says I probably won’t get the feeling back, at least not fully. Stupid mistake.

I'm sorry to see it, bro. Great point, though. Just because it's at your house, doesn't mean it's a toy

Yeah, just an oversight. Could have been way worse. Could have flown up and hit me in the eye or something permanent. Or another 1/4in I would have been picking my thumb off of the garage floor

Good PSA. Call me overkill, but I wear this every time I’m working with a knife or dremel:
Stainless Steel Mesh Hand Glove - Cut Resistant <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NNT2F8/>

Best wishes brother. I have a buddy who was shot in the hand in Afghanistan and later sliced a tendon in his kitchen while cooking chicken. He said the pain from the bullet didn’t approach the pain from the sliced tendon @Px4stormtrooper#3883

Funny enough, the initial cut wasn’t very painful at all. I believe because of the severed nerve. It was more of a dull pain, and I still have very little sensation at all on the whole side of the thumb. It has mainly been a huge annoyance not being able to grip with that hand. It’s damn near impossible to do anything without a thumb, even simple things, like having to reach across with my left hand to start my truck. Luckily I’ll be healed up in a week or two and it’ll be a lesson learned. Just take care of yourselves gents, be safe out there

Any pointers beyond RTFM when it comes to not breaking powertools/stripping bolts/don't do X to Y because Z

Been having a time of it lately.

Also is there any kind of 'how not to be a greenie round the shop' manual beyond binging AvE vids?

Downward pressure, sharp tools.

@Freiheit - CA Why is Snap-On still in business? Does the quality of their tools really demand such a high price? All my wrenches are Craftsman, and although I don't use them but about once a week, they've stayed sharp for the 5 years I've had them. Plus, the warranty

What do you guys think of Klein?

I have them, they're electrician's tools more than anything

@Deleted User If you're just a hobbyist, do Craftsman. Klein is like $40 for a pair of pliers

@John O - Snap on has killer warranty and support but these days it's a lot of marketing.

Replacements are no questions asked, that's what you pay so much for

I'm sure the fact that they offer in house financing helps, too

There are other small task-specific companies.

No questions asked returns pisses me off. I have to pay more because some retard can't take care of his shit?

A decade later you'll appreciate it when Craftcuck no longer makes it

Buy old tools @John O - there are deals to be had.