carleton

I agree.

It's something that I regret not learning to do early on. I think I was pretty skilled at fully maintaining all sorts of geared, single speed, or track bikes...except for 2 things: Building wheels and gluing tubulars.

On a related note: I was in a conversation with a gentleman who runs a tennis center in the Atlanta area and were talking about how difficult (or not) stringing racquets is. (back story: His 2 sons went to D1 colleges on tennis scholarships.) He's like, "When my boys were poppin' strings every week, I was like, 'nooooo. I'm not doing it and I'm certainly not gonna pay someone to do it.', I taught them how to string their own racquets when they were 10 years old...they strung mine, too "