Shoutout to the retired mechanic who talked me through fixing a frozen derailleur at a rest stop in Kansas last summer

Finley Carr · 2026-04-29T18:30:03.291722+00:00

He pulled over in his beat-up pickup, handed me a can of WD-40, and said, 'Slow down, you're fighting the bike instead of listening to it,' and I still think about that every time I touch a cable housing.

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