I got home to discover that both my cheap diamond coated hobbyist files AND the bash guard my mate had volunteered to post to me had arrived.
Time to get to work on that spider. Being lazy I decided this would be perfectly ok to do without removing the cranks.
Surprisingly, this a) worked and b) didn't take too long.
Even more surprisingly the donated bash guard fitted perfectly. Nice.
A quick bump round the park, and bar the fact that I think the cassette will need replacing fairly soon, it is, in fact, a BIKE.


