At the beginning of second year, I bought a cheap new bike off ebay. As well as being brand new and dirt cheap, it was also rubbish.

For a term it got be to uni and back, and I even bought a trailer for it. It soon began to let me down after I snapped a spoke cycling down a set of steps on campus and I had to replace the spoke and retune my rear wheel.

Coming back after Christmas, I was cycling to uni and the freewheel went. John had to push me the rest of the way. I later walked back home with my bike, and took the freewheel apart. The small metal parts which engages the teeth had disintegrated, and so were pretty useless.

I attempted to put it back together, and it lasted a few more cycling minutes before failing again, and again. The only real solution was to get a new freewheel, but the bike wasn’t worth it.

Time to go shopping.

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