Confessions from the fuckwits

Mattyp said:
The last few rides on the little bike I've been getting a bit of what I thought was rear rotor rub... Fuck around a bit, tweak the rotor where it looks like it may touch the pads, do this a few times. The noise comes and goes, usually pretty obvious after a descent, me assuming the rotor is a bit hot and warping, then magically the noise would go away after a while. They are afterall the el cheapo rotors that came on the bike...whatevs. Today a mate goes 'ey what happened to your calliper, did something get stuck in your wheel"
Huh?
I look down and immediately see a broken spoke dangling on a weird angle. Well this broken spoke has been dangling for quite a while and gone around and around probably a million times and managed to custom machine the side of my calliper...
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Cascade components will be calling you soon!
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pink poodle said:
Damn!!! @Mattyp ! That is good work.
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I blame summer, noisy freehubs and not needing to wash the bike for the last 3 months. Although Back tyre isn't old, probably would have noticed it when changing that, so it's happened in the last 4-5 rides.. that's still potentially 100+KMs of spoke hitting the calliper...whatevs.
Anyone want to guess the paintcode?
 
Noticed the rim tape was well munted when I changed the tyres the other day. Fuckit, sendit was the thought.

Inevitable slow leak over the next couple of days. No worries, no surprise, new tape it is.

Pop the bead and the rubber is bone dry. Not. A. Drop. of sealant. Dickhead.

Fixed the tape while it was apart. Whaddayaknow. Still tight.

Can recommend Vittoria Mezcals for their sealing.
 
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Went to ride my bike to work on Monday. Pushed it outside while I got my shit together, walked out and closed the garage door, hopped on my bike and started to pedal off and I couldn't clip in.
It's 5:50am and dark but I realised I had left my flat pedals on from when I lent it out to a friend on the weekend and had forgotten to swap them back.
No time to change them so decided to press on and had an annoying 55km of riding to and from work constantly slipping all over the pedals.
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Not so much me but I sold 2 brake rotors today on MP. Guy turns up on time, I'm selling them both for $40, he examines them, all good and gives me an envelope full of fucking loose change... Including 10 and 20 cent coins. 'yeah sorry about that but it's all there. Cya!'. Agh you fucknut I loathe shrapnel. Didn't even bother to count it, just gave it all to my kid to lose..
 
Coopz said:
Not so much me but I sold 2 brake rotors today on MP. Guy turns up on time, I'm selling them both for $40, he examines them, all good and gives me an envelope full of fucking loose change... Including 10 and 20 cent coins. 'yeah sorry about that but it's all there. Cya!'. Agh you fucknut I loathe shrapnel. Didn't even bother to count it, just gave it all to my kid to lose..
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Zero chance I'd have accepted that. Unless it was a kid that had saved up their pocket money, a sturdy yet crisp "fuck off" would have been my response.
 
Coopz said:
Not so much me but I sold 2 brake rotors today on MP. Guy turns up on time, I'm selling them both for $40, he examines them, all good and gives me an envelope full of fucking loose change... Including 10 and 20 cent coins. 'yeah sorry about that but it's all there. Cya!'. Agh you fucknut I loathe shrapnel. Didn't even bother to count it, just gave it all to my kid to lose..
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What a douche bag. That's a great prank to pull on your mates, but...not how you conduct such transactions. Was this person 100 years old? I've noticed unsupervised fossils love to pay for their coffee with every bit of shrapnel they dug out of the lounge.
 
cokeonspecialtwodollars said:
Most banks will let you exchange shrapnel for notes, they just dump it through the fancy counter-matic machine, surely old mate could've had the decency to make a token effort.
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Only if they have such a device...last time I took my oile of junk in the branch I attended required me to bag it all up in specific amounts per denomination then they used a scale to weight it etc. Took me ages.
 
Not me but I went into 99 Bikes last week with my daughter to get some new brake pads for her bike. At the counter next to me old mate was talking to the young sales girl..

Old mate 'Can I book my Pedal road bike in for its complimentary first service?'
Sale girl 'certainly, did you buy the bike from us?'
Old mate 'yes'
Sales girl (typing his details in) 'it says you bought the pedal cavalier in March 2019?'
Old mate 'yes'
Sales girl 'I'm sorry sir but the service only applied for the first 6 weeks and you've had it for 6 years'
Old mate 'well the gearing changing is shit and it needs a service'
SG 'that's fine we can book it in for you'
Old mate 'Good but I'm not going to pay for it'
SG' sir its not complimentary it will cost $89'
Old mate (raising his voice and his posture) 'I was never told it was a 6 week time frame, you guys need to fix the bike and I ain't paying for it!'
SG (been remarkably calm) 'sorry sir it's on the warranty book you got from us at purchase and its on our website, its been our policy for many years'
Old mate 'you've sold me a fucked bike, you need to fucking fix it!'

I had enough at this point as my teenage daughter who starts her first job in retail next week is witnessing why retail can be such a shit place to work.
Me 'time to leave mate, you're been a complete dickhead'

He looks at me for a few seconds (also me been 6'5 and 120kg and him been 5 foot nothing) and I half expected a violent altercation (yay) but he just stormed out the shop muttering stuff.
Manager emerges from the back room, chats with sales girl (who still seems very chilled) and says thanks for that and gives me the brake pads 'on the house' he says.
 
Dear Fellow Fuckwits. It's been about 5 months since my last proper confessional. This one is a doozy...

So, those who have been following the Ali thread might remember my Gravel-Packer-Dropbar creation, from many shed bits, AliEx bits and parts all over. One of those Ali parts was the rigid bikepacking fork.

I discovered last night that the fork steerer is completely open to the legs, and that the legs are (of course) hollow all the way through. Now, you might ask, how did I discover this?

Tool storage has been on my mind, and I purchased a AliEx Granite Designs Stash RCX, one with with the compression plug for enlcosed & carbon forks, as obviously a star nut based tool, or one that requires a top/bottom clamp, just wasn't going to work. It arrived, and looked the goods. Following the instructions all seemed golden, until the compression unit didn't want to fit into the fork all that well (again, AliEx Fork, maybe not the straightest of steerers internally, there's a post on this in the AliEx thread). All good I think, I'll just loosen it up it it'll slide right in. So I do this, get it assembled again, and slip the unit into the steerer.

As I go to tighten the plug up through the bottom of the tool sleeve, as the allen key goes through, I suddenly feel a total lack of resistance, followed by the "clink-clank-FUCK!" of the compression plug artfully falling off the bottom of the tool sleeve...

Into the fork. And down into the right leg. Finally getting caught, it would seem, on the upper gear mount on the leg. Fuck.

So a bit of shaking & inverting the fork & bike now has the plug visible, but not actually in the steerer properly, and bottom up... I'm hoping to all hell that I can get a bit of M6 threaded rod, and somehow snag the plug and thread it in, just enough to allow me to pull it out. As otherwise it's not coming out, and I've got a fork that rattles to hell and a tool that I can't install!

I'm still laughing a bit, still crying a bit, and hoping that I am not going to have to spend on a new fork!
 
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