Confessions from the fuckwits

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Berm VonCrashen

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Well, I am going to have to add my recent fwittery. Already spotted in the what did('nt) you do (right) today thread.. Alcohol can impair your ability to perform certain tasks, except to drink more...

Due to recent weather which is great to go riding, the weather also provides a much dryer and dustier environment. After months of abuse with said dust the poor ol steed was starting to show signs of something that would be considered unhealthy in the medical world for humans. So a morning to ponder and a beer (or two) decide to remedy the situation. Few hours later I am into it and do the pull apart (more beers included). So i fastidiously clean everything and think wow, what I have done to the poor girl.

Part Duex! Beer, look at bike, beer, attack with gusto. So in the process of putting the steed back together greasing, lubing and fitting. I get to the hubs on the final stretch. Whilst lubing the hubs, my beer addled brain decided to play a fun game of goldfish memory and kept my inner thoughts at bay. Subconsciously there was a "why is the grease tube grey" but Zen said carry on. Not until later I though once everything was together and packing up i thought "Doh Anti seize is grey!" Beer addled grey matter fwittery... :frusty:

Still a good excuse to pull apart and play with it again. At least there is no creaks or crunching..
 
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camzh

camzh

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I recently bought a new frame and wheel set.
The New rear wheel is a single speed driver job with only 9t.
Seeing as I was transferring a lot of parts of my old bike this meant getting a new chain ring.


Tried to bolt up the new chain ring to the cranks (single bolt bmx style) and the cut out in the chain ring is too short by about 1.5mm.
The bolt just won't pass through.
So I figured this new chain ring must have some fancy new off set or use the micro drive bolt.
Possible solutions:
Drill and tap new hole in cranks. Nope, cranks are hollow.
Grind out chain ring: would prefer not to cut a small piece of alloy down to a smaller piece.
Get new cranks: can't find info on the bolt off set measurements and this is expensive.
Fabricate a stud that locates the changing on the crank arm: win.

So I spent a bit off time working out the best way to do this. In the end I got a 16X10 Allen head bolt and drilled the centre out. Tapped it for M6. Ground down the out side so it resembled a grub screw with an un threaded section.
Grind a flat onto this section so it fits inside the chain ring.
Initial test fitment: why is they there a 1.5mm gap to the out side of the chain ring?

Fuuuuuuuuu one of the cut outs is slightly longer!
Install regular bolt and ride off...
 
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RIDEGIANT

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Hmmm, let me mention my biggest and best fuck up (had a few)

Was rebuilding my Anthem X29 0 pivot at work, 600 hour + service

Nek minnit testing it in the carpark, all the bolts fell out and the shock blew up (monarch RT3)

Don't you hate it when you put the bolts in but don't tighten them??

The amount of laughter that could be heard was phenomenal :)
 
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TM2

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Realised I had run my chain incorrectly around my rear derailleur on my new bike. I had successfully ridden for a good few weeks, until the chain started slipping, and then realised it had been rubbing on a little bit of metal inbetween the derailleur cogs. Somehow when I re-routed the chain and turned it inside out the chain has stopped slipping so I consider my self a bit lucky this time.
 
moorey

moorey

call me Mia
Confession on behalf of a burner who won't admit to this:
3 day weekend with the boys at Buller, right up on the village, got there Friday late arvo, so only had time for a few copperhead runs. Next morning, big day planned...full day of Delatite and Klingsporn.
About 5km into the first run of the day, heading down a fast link up section of fire road to Delatite, mate notices his bike speedo isn't reading, mustn't be close enough to the spokes. Doing 40 clicks down a rocky road, mate decided the best solution was to use his foot to push the computer in a bit closer.
No prizes for guessing what happened when you put your full foot in your front wheel at high speed.:loco:
:jaw:
 
moorey

moorey

call me Mia
gregb said:
Still want to see the video though.
Click to expand...
Would have been a winner. I was ahead and missed it, but witnesses say, that after landing, laying there in a crumpled heap, all he could say was: "I'm an idiot... I'm a fucking idiot"
 
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Benny.B

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Other highlights from the weekend include Moorey sampling the Buller creek temperature - went over the hangers during a river crossing :rofl:
 
foxpuppet

foxpuppet

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Confessions from the fuck wits

Rode my bike in the wet the other day and got it pretty muddy.... Don't get in a twist it was a firetrail.... But gave it a quick hose down the next day. Anyway my wife was down the road and couldn't get the baby capsule in so I jumped on the bike a rode around to her. While riding I hear this horrible knock/creak sound coming from somewhere near the BB every time the drive side crank was at the bottom of the stroke. Start thinking of how I'm gonna go home and get on here searching for a remedy. Get to my wife, fix her problem then head home. As I'm riding I start trying to look and see if I can pinpoint the noise. Seems really loud and constant every revolution. And only on the bottom of the drive side downstroke. Thinking to myself never get her muddy again..... Look on the non drive side while the cranks at the bottom on the drive side.... It's my shoelace hitting the frame!

 
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C.Forsyth

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I've only ever tried the speedo adjustment once. Last time I came off I would say it was an actual accident. Similar to you off track excursion on copperhead !
 
C0na

C0na

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Thinking Im being all savvy and buying a second hand phone to save some dosh....Phone doesnt come with warranty.... I break the phone......I buy a replacement part off eaby, to save some dosh.....3 weeks later..... The part doesnt work......Money well spent :violin:
 
pink poodle

pink poodle

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Not bike related, but...i have a cousin on each side of the family with the same name. One side i generally avoid (at al costs) due to them being a bunch of oxygen thieves. Yesterday in an attempt to give Super-Gran (yes official title earnt by being super) a nice christmas suprise involving a cousin from the nice side i invited the wrong cousin over for christmas! An open invitation for the whole day. Txting is a shit way to communicate.

So when i phoned her to weasel out i told her a friend of mine she has 'known' was coming and it might be akward for her & the new BF...then we chat and she tells me how there is a bit of a family rift and she doesnt talk with her family at the moment...

D'oh.
 
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RIDEGIANT

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Bike related :)

So at work today and some strange ass 'No Fear' dually comes in. Take the blokes details, put it up on the stand, and go about changing the tubes, as they were both flat with multiple holes,

Anyway, change the rear and pump it up no probs, but then get to the front and have to replace the rim tape. 'Righto, all good, I'll do it FOC.'

Nek minnit, put the tube in and the tire and pump it up a bit to seat it, around 20 PSI. Check the tire, all good, seated properly, so keep pumping. Needle on the pump touches 40psi, and rim starts vibrating.

Go to disconnect pump and the loudest fucking explosion I have ever heard destroys the peaceful ambience of the workshop and there is bits of tire and a mangled rim on the other side of the w-s.

Utter fuckwittery :)
 
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