Bike Fixes and other updates
Fixing my bike. For a while now the main bike I have been riding the Ozark Trail G1 had some issues. I have put close to 4,000 miles on it since I have owned it and none of those issues were bad enough to not ride it. That changed a few weeks ago. Shifting started to be very sloppy in the rear and I already knew the issue was the jockey wheel on the derailleur. I was ignoring the issues it had for a long time because the shifting was fine and there were not other issues with it. When I first got this bike I wanted to see how long I could run it on stock parts with out replacing things other so I was also seeing how long I could let this issue go. Yesterday I took off the jockey wheel and put on a replacement. The damage was worse than I thought and I really should have replaced it sooner. You can see in the poor quality picture that it looks okay enough from a glance but once I took the screw out to replace you can see how bad it really is. This is what happened when I...