Since I'm now determined to turn that crappy mountain bike into something interesting that I might ride around on, I've been spending a few hours a day working on (aka destroying) it. The only thing I've really managed to do to it is destroy the bottom bracket, which needed to be replaced anyway and loosening up the stem, which had formally been seized up. I hadn't even realized that I could get it to raise up until now. I'd just kinda been dealing with it.
The experience so far has made me grateful that I'm working out all the kinks of doing this kind of work on a crappy mountain bike and not destroying my beloved Blue Thunder. Now I just need to either A: get replacement cranks, bottom bracket and single chain ring or B: find a really cheap cruiser style bike on craigslist and gut it for parts. I'm hoping for the cruiser.
Go mash some pedals.
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