I used some thin velcro strapping on mine… easy to cut to size, re-useable, easy to remove if needed.
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Yeah i was planning on tying that in tight. Like you say, a few secs makes no difference when you’re on the side of the road playing about with punctures anyway.
Similarly planned to play the risk on the nutrition. I’ve been testing different bottles and i have these Giro d;Italia ones that are quite fat and softer/stickier plastic. So they really grip into the cages. Worst case scenario there’s the on course stuff to supplement and i’ll chuck a spare in special needs bag as well.
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the rest of us now have a potential more worst case scenario if we are behind you when you are having your worst case scenario, as if the race wasn’t hard enough already
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I just use a strip of electrical tape. That’s always kept my spares bottle BTS in place if you run the tape over the cage itself. As with all the other options, it take a couple of seconds to remove if required. Thankfully I learned that lesson on the multi lap crystal palace course, so picked it up after. There was probably about £50 of stuff in it!
For my nutrition bottle I use a xlab gorilla cage, which did make a big difference in reduction of ejected bottles. They’re not cheap, but are noticeably better
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Here’s me ripping into poncy bike kit like Cafe du Cycliste and PeNiS and look what’s arrived in the post… gold Ti bolts for the summer roady 
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you’d’ve thought gold would be too soft to make a good bolt?
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Hi All, ok confession time - the most that I have ever done is change tubes/tyres, and mend a chain link, so now looking at becoming a @gingerbongo in looking for guru advice out there.
My two road bikes (10 and 11 speed) have decided to start finding it difficult adhering to the indexes. I sometime have to give my brake lever a push and then a further small tweak to get the gear over. Same with both bikes, one even jumps out of the gear sometimes… if I’m lucky it may choose to jump back in.
I have my suspicions that it could be cables, but always taken to local shop before, never got off my arse and pulled my finger out. All change! Now is the time! It would be rude not to, with a cabal of competent and clever cyclists (tris!).
So what would you all give as a top 5 areas I need to look at, maybe with the most obvious 1st?
You will make a bike mechanic out of me yet. Many thanks in advance.
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Well it’s probably just the cable has stretched slightly, so just a start from scratch adjustment, the cable may need replacing, or it may be fine.
Either way, just find a video on tube and follow the instructions - it can be a pain adjusting the indexing, but it’s not particularly difficult, just time on the stand.
It could also be your mech hanger being not straight - that’s common if the problem is just at one end of the block, another easy fix if you have the tool but only with the tool.
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Personally when it comes to instructions on how to do things I always refer to the Park Tools website. They are the best. Except when its chain length and for some reason I go to Sheldon Brown.
As Jim said start with the cable. A new adjust make work and if not a new cable is a cheap and easy fix. If you get nowhere with that then its time to start looking harder at other things.
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Thanks both - that’s really appreciated. I will report back after pulling out my finger.
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Rear gears can start to go out of whack if the cable is fraying, and cables almost always fray right up in the shifter where it goes through some tight bends. So that is worth checking.
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Just finished my mega bike maintenance for a test ride tomorrow. Swapped my cosmic wheels with new tyres and swapped brake pads. New casette, chain and big chain ring. Doesn’t seem that much when you write it down. It didn’t help that I balls up and put the chain on wrong around the frame 
(never done that before so blaming it on a long day), and as I used the shimano pin that came with the chain had to search for a kmc link which I knew I had somewhere and eventually found it. It all looks to be running fine so make the most of my first dry weekend ride for a very long time (the forecast better be right) 
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Nothing fell off or broke, so a successful job. In fact the bike is in better condition than its rider.
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wow I’ve got more likes that nothing fell off or broke than actually doing all the work. Are you lot trying to tell me something 
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Just wait until @gingerbongo manages a successful bit of bike maintenance, the internet will 
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There’s probably a higher chance of @fruit_thief becoming the next Steve Irwin.
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The chance of @fruit_thief becoming the next Steve Irwin is similar to the chance of moles respecting your garden fence 
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Which is slim. I’ve lost count of how many I’ve caught and rhey’re showing no signs of giving up just yet 
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