Traffic here is significantly better than around Fermilab: There are lots of public busses and most streets have bike lanes, which are sometimes even as broad as the car lanes. Yesterday I took on the challenge to cycle steep uphill to campus with one gear. A bit of physical exercise would have been okay, but the problem was that the chain kept falling off every few meters. It reminded me of the Fermilab bike. Besides I made by mistke a detour so that I arrived on the wrong side of the hill, at the literature and language department.
I visited the bike co-op again. Another nice volunteer checked the bike and was so sorry that I got it in such a bad shape. He wanted to give me parts of my money back, but I told him that I had paid nearly nothing. Unfortunately, he did not have a replacement for the sprocket, but built in a different back wheel. He was very friendly and helpful, however, the chains falls off even more frequently now...
Tomorrow I will try out the bike shuttle bus to campus and ride the bike only downhill - carefully after my flatmate Tia had a bike accident yesterday and broke her right ellbow.
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