{"id":303,"date":"2017-01-01T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T23:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=303"},"modified":"2017-01-01T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T23:56:35","slug":"it-only-took-2-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2017\/01\/01\/it-only-took-2-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"It Only Took 2.5 Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July of 2014, while cleaning my Cervelo R5 on a beautiful summer day,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1031-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1031-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1031-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1031-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1031.jpg 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cracked lock ring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I noticed that my crank was wobbly. Upon closer inspection by <a href=\"http:\/\/billysprobike.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Billy&#8217;s Pro Bike<\/a>, the lock ring that fasten the crank to the spider of the crank was cracked. Long story short, I contacted Rotors in the US and their customer support was superb. I got a replacement spider and crank assembly. However I never took the opportunity to put it back on my bike. At the time I was riding with a used crank from Billy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of 2017, I took some time in\u00a0the new year to tune my bike.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replaced my worn out Dura-Ace 11-25 cassette with a brand new Ultegra 11-28 cassette, that I got at a Boxing Dale Sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/labicicletta.com\" target=\"_blank\">La Bicicletta<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Replaced a bent drop out that was bent out of shape in a multi-bike piled up during the spring of 2016;<\/li>\n<li>Tune both my rear and front\u00a0derailleurs;<\/li>\n<li>Took my chain off and gave it a thorough cleaning and re-greasing;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>AND FINALLY<\/strong><\/em> replaced by front crank assembly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are\u00a0the results:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-307\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1166-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1166-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1166-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1166-1024x658.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brand new crank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1165-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1165-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1165-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1165-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1165-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New cassette Ultegra 11-28<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It took me more than 4 hours. I guess I am not cut out to be a bike mechanic, and I better keep my day job!<\/p>\n<p>I am so tired, I&#8217;ll test out the bike tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July of 2014, while cleaning my Cervelo R5 on a beautiful summer day, I noticed that my crank was wobbly. Upon closer inspection by Billy&#8217;s Pro Bike, the lock ring that fasten the crank to the spider of the crank was cracked. Long story short, I contacted Rotors in the US and their customer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2017\/01\/01\/it-only-took-2-5-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Only Took 2.5 Years!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/IMG_1029-e1483314046752.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-4T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}