Confessions from the fuckwits

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
Well… fuck. I don’t know. Should have checked angles. It looked the same. Seemed to go back together ok?
Damn you sensible question asker!

Edit: @kten had me questioning myself, so I dropped the fork down again. I’m running a 40x52x7 45°x45° lower headset bearing and the Hope HS137s crown race which (from what I can tell) has a 45° angle. Crisis averted.
Are you going to use grease instead of lapping paste this time?
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
You can’t tell me what to do!

(Also - yes, the grey grease that I had to clean out of my headset looked surprisingly like lapping paste)
I think the correct response is you're / your / yaw / yore (strike out depending on lack of edification) not the boss of me.
 

fjohn860

Alice in diaperland
stashed my spare rotors, pads, casette etc somewhere "safe" so wouldn't get lost/damaged........ ffs....
Get yourself one of these (or a couple of them depending on your spares stock). Label accordingly. Then file it away in the shed so you won't be able to find any of your spares.


EDIT: This actually might be what you have already done. If so kudos.
 

oldcorollas

Levin the moment
Get yourself one of these (or a couple of them depending on your spares stock). Label accordingly. Then file it away in the shed so you won't be able to find any of your spares.


EDIT: This actually might be what you have already done. If so kudos.
Box 2 of 3...
Am assuming box 3 has evaporated due to climate change :(
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dancaseyimages

Mountain bike pornographer
Get yourself one of these (or a couple of them depending on your spares stock). Label accordingly. Then file it away in the shed so you won't be able to find any of your spares.


EDIT: This actually might be what you have already done. If so kudos.
I have a couple of these per bike discipline (road/mtb/bmx), seem to last a bit better than the usual stackable garage containers, fit in the car/ute fine if travelling, not as small as a toolbox but harder to loose.
 

pink poodle

気が狂っている男
Well I really kicked myself in the dick tonight!

We had a fairly big launch party. Love DJs (not too bad) many Newtons louder than they needed to be. Hundreds of corporate suck holes. 2 event planners that couldn't plan a root in a brothel. And many hours of it just going on and on and on...when it finally comes to the end and everyone has gone home and I am locking down the building I see the kitchen guys have left all their lights etc on. Every fucking time...so tonight I decide they can have a small amount of inconvenience tomorrow morning and I will lock all their storage. It wont be huge, but only a couple of them have the necessary key, and that inconvenience is enough for me.


Hmmmm this fucking lock is sticky and jammed full of shit. I wrangle my key in, lock the door, can't get my key out. It is 1:15am. I jiggle I wriggle I pull and I push. I get nowhere. I fin some vegetable oil and trickle a tiny bit on the key and wriggle and jiggle then the key pops out. But the latch is locked. So now my key is lubed up, I slip it back in the lock and fuck me it is stuck again and I can't unlock the door. This time it is proper stuck and not going anywhere. I decide fuck it I'm going home and I'll come back in the morning...no I won't. I need that key to get my backpack, house keys, and bike. Ahhhh yes my multi tool would be useful right now, but it locked away in my backpack.

So now I am MacGyver because fucked if I want to walk home and break in here. I've got a fork, butter knife, some other bits and pieces...then I see the cordless drill with the correct bit on the end. I have to pull the entire door handle - lock assembly out of the door. Get my key out and fuck me the lock barrel won't go back into the frame. More fucking around ...but I win. Whole door back together. It's only 140, not too bad.
 

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
We are on holiday in France, today my son and I hired ebikes. Did 70km and 1100m of climbing. I enjoyed it and I don't think the trails would have been possible without an ebike. I never thought I'd go to the dark side...
Now we're talking ;)

Keep that same justification chat for when you get back on Aussie dirt.
 

dirtdad

Wants to be special but is too shy
Not 100% sure I’m a f-wit… (yet). But pretty sure my newly (diy) rebuilt shock now has air in the damper. Will have to strip it again and see. Don’t know if I stuffed something up, or just one of those things. But I expect the former.

Went for a ride yesterday and it felt good until about half way home when I started noticing an intermittently harsh feeling rear end and a consistent *squish *squish sound.
 

Rorschach

Didnt pay $250 for this custom title
Not 100% sure I’m a f-wit… (yet). But pretty sure my newly (diy) rebuilt shock now has air in the damper. Will have to strip it again and see. Don’t know if I stuffed something up, or just one of those things. But I expect the former.

Went for a ride yesterday and it felt good until about half way home when I started noticing an intermittently harsh feeling rear end and a consistent *squish *squish sound.
Not an X2 is it?
 

Mattyp

Cows go boing
Not 100% sure I’m a f-wit… (yet). But pretty sure my newly (diy) rebuilt shock now has air in the damper. Will have to strip it again and see. Don’t know if I stuffed something up, or just one of those things. But I expect the former.

Went for a ride yesterday and it felt good until about half way home when I started noticing an intermittently harsh feeling rear end and a consistent *squish *squish sound.
It's why they vacuum the shocks when doing it to make sure to get every tiny bit of air out, otherwise it's pretty easy for air to get trapped in the little nooks and crannies inside it.
just give it another bleed. Moving the shock to different orientations while you do it to try get all the air out.
 
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