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Как обычно, с приходом летней жары в мае киевские трамвайщики начали отопительный сезон. По крайней мере на линии скоростного трамвая вполне можно открывать передвижной банный бизнес.

Having removed the luggage rack (which appeares to affect the shifting cable routing a little bit) after a 208 km mountain bike tour I noticed that rear shifting isn’t especially precise…

Turned out, the shifting cable jacket was out of the seating!

(I simply forgot to put it back in place after lubricating before the trip)

Remarkably how much reliable 8-speed is!
I doubt 9-speed would let me go for a week in mountains with no re-adjustment with such an oversight.

BTW the correct cable position is this:

Here’s how we started our autonomous biking tour in April 2007:
(All photos in this set © Kostya)