Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 5/6/2024
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 5/6/2024
Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
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Something interesting that happened to you
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Something frustrating that happened to you
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I've been trying to ride my bike into work instead of driving lately, but today it decided it's had enough of hauling my fat arse around and the derailleur hanger snapped in half.
Probably should use it as an excuse to upgrade, but I hate shopping for expensive things.
Wouldn't that repair be reasonably straightforward? Maybe not for me 😆, but maybe for you or at least for a bike shop. Easier than trying to find a new bike.
Alternatively, get one off trademe without thinking too hard and just put up with it.
Or if you like having expensive things (even if you don't like shopping for them), if you have a mortgage you can get a cheap loan for an ebike.
Replacing the hanger is probably a five minute job. Finding the correct one is much harder. Replacement spoke is cheap, but making a wheel run true is a bit fiddly and I'm not particularly good at it.
I've already put aside plenty of money for an upgrade, it's the choosing one that I hate.
Also: NZ has a Workride scheme where you can get a bike with no GST paid off over a year from your pre-tax wages/salary. It works out somewhere around 50% off the actual sale price for a typical worker (though some of that is from your own Kiwisaver contribution and/or student loan repayments, which you're technically just putting off and not actually saving in the very long term).
I didn't know about the workride scheme! Personally I'm not sure I can justify the cost if an ebike even at 50%ish off, and I'm not going to be riding it to work on account of working from home most of the time. But I'll definitely be telling others!