So I did the 30 odd miles on Wednesday and the bike seems fine, doesn’t turn off, the gears aren’t making horrible noises. Pretty bloody fine.
Took the dog out yesterday on it, once again bike works fine – I’m a little tired still from the day before, I’m not in my twenties and long rides tend to stick with me a little longer now. In the evening I decided to take a look at a trail I’d seen people doing online that heads down Clapdale past the front of Ingleborough Cave, I’ve walk part of it several times, but I didn’t realise that you could get along on the bike, so I wanted to explore a bit and see how viable it was (the guy whose video it was, said several times he felt sorry for the guys on hardtails), so I wanted to see if doing it on a hardtail was realistic, if it was I could add another route.
Long Lane which runs from where Thwaite Lane meets the track coming up through the Tunnels from Clapham, the route I want to test requires me to either come down off the tops of Crummack or go up Long Lane. Long Lane is pretty rough, and it didn’t take long for my bike to start with the old turning off every few yards that I experienced while coming down off Cam High Road before it’s most recent repair.
The mechanic is saying it might be a battery issue which Tredz are also saying, and saying that I can try and adjust it so it doesn’t slop around. It’s pretty tight in there so I’m not altogether sure how to make it fit any tighter. Anyway Tredz are sending a box up and I’m shipping the bike back to them, I’m pretty sick of the whole thing at this point I’m beginning to think that I just want to refund it and buy a brand new bike.
Issue being that this bike was bought on finance, refunding it would pay off the loan (interest free) and I’d get ~£800 back (what I have already paid), but I need finance to buy whatever I get to replace it. So I don’t know what I can do. Ideally Tredz will work out exactly what is wrong and I’ll get this bike back and it’ll be fine and work perfectly, but you’ll forgive me if I don’t actually believe that.