• TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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    9 months ago

    I work in a bike shop and my colleagues like to poke fun at my 13" kids mountain bike that I use to commute. But you know what, over 3 years, even after riding over glass bottles and thorny branches and who knows what, no puncture so far. All I’ve had to do is change my brake cable, just did a chain and freewheel replacement last week (probably cos I don’t wash it as often as I should) and a brake pad replacement cos the ones it came with on the v brake was the cheap sort that screamed.

    They keep telling me to upgrade to a aluminium frame hybrid, I’m like, why?

    • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      I’ve just had to change brake pads and tires so far, just because of how much I ride it, but I have it in the shop every year, and so far no major problems.

      Before that, I had a cast-off bike from Walmart that my ex-boss gave me when he left, and I rode that into the ground. I still have it and could fix it, but I decided to put the money into something newer instead back in 2020.