As we were cycling today, the day after the whole tube drama, one of the spokes on the wheel we replaced in Bangkok snapped. We have extra spokes, but the one that broke is on the cassette side and we don’t have the tools needed to remove the cassette. So once again, we were on the search for a bike shop. Again, shop owners would shake their heads and point us further down the road. Eventually we got to this little shop. Unlike the previous shops, the lady in the photo grabbed the wheel and went to work.
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After removing the tube and preparing the wheel, she went to the back and started screaming at her son (son-in-law?) to come out. They argued for awhile but he eventually came out and went to work. He didn’t have the right tool either but he managed to re-true the wheel so that it can at least be ridden.
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For now, we’re just rolling with it until we can find a bike shop with the right tool but it’s only a matter a time before more spokes snap. We’ll see how far we get.
(As you can tell from the photos btw, I’m being hugely useful. Documenting the events is of the upmost importance of course).
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