Bike Mechanic - My Actifit Report Card: February 8 2026
Today was a weird day! I started playing Splinterlands and when I was able to make some noise while not waking the entire house up I started with my first chore for today, my MTB's chain needed to be replaced, nothing special but it was something I had never done before and with de greasing, cleaning and relubing the chain it was quite a lot of work, something I didn't expect but to be fair I just didn't think it through very well.
My daughter wanted to go with me on my mountainbike rides so yesterday we made a bid on a secondhand MTB a couple villages away, this morning the bid was accepted so I mounted the bike carrier on the back of the car and off we went!
It was a really friendly lady and because she was only road biking lately, she was selling the mtb which on sight looked in very good shape so after a test ride we bought it and my daughter got the ladies helmet, glasses clipless shimano shoes and mud guard for free with the bike to help her get started, so sweet! ❤️
Once home, I checked the bike - lubed the chain, put some air in the tires when I noticed the front suspension was stuck but with oil and force I was able to get it moving again, the bike has probably been sitting still for quite a while.
The shoes were too small unfortunately so the SPD pedals had to be switched with my old flat pedals, but apparently when mounting the pedals they didn't use any kind of grease on the threads and BOY they got stuck, using penetrating oil didn't help, my impact driver got one side loose but the other one didn't budge at all, so YouTube is your friend and after some searching I found a good tip that helped so now I could finally mount the flat pedals.
The next problem wasn't far away because the chain got off the front cog when changing gears, again YouTube learned me how to adjust the shimano front derailleur which wasn't that hard, it's just something you have to know.
All done with the bike so we went out for a short cycling ride, 17km to start and let my daughter get used to riding. I remember the first weeks everything hurts 😅.
When we got home it was time to cook dinner, eat and then wash the dinner and now... I'm completely toast 😅.
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