Oil slick, an environmental disaster that somehow made it's way onto our bikes way faster than we could see it.
Bike ownership is all about slowing down decay. At current shop rates and time availability, unless you worked on your own bike, there is no way you can keep it running as well as it did the first day off the shop floor.
And noone budgets for $500-$1000 a year maintenance cost for these complicated machines.
April 29, 2021, 7:52 a.m. - Deniz Merdano
Oil slick, an environmental disaster that somehow made it's way onto our bikes way faster than we could see it. Bike ownership is all about slowing down decay. At current shop rates and time availability, unless you worked on your own bike, there is no way you can keep it running as well as it did the first day off the shop floor. And noone budgets for $500-$1000 a year maintenance cost for these complicated machines.