moorey
call me Mia
Wait... To use the sealant again? :brushteeth:
Confessions from the fuckwits
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No, thank christ! Cleaning the shit off the bead so the tyre will seat again. Tried everything, and all that worked was picking it off by hand...
Rabble bukes
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Riding along yesterday and felt something on the back of my leg. Looked like white liquid. Thought that was weird. Then saw it all down the back of the bike. Weird i thought, what the hell is that? All i was thinking, was is it my shock, brakes, reverb post (even though i've serviced all of these and know for sure there's no white liquid in them) or had i rode through some weird puddle? What is this white liquid?
Took me a bit to realise it was tire sealant that had been squirting out. Have never run sealant before, so this was my first experience of getting a small puncture and it squirting out. Felt like a right royal idiot.
Took me a bit to realise it was tire sealant that had been squirting out. Have never run sealant before, so this was my first experience of getting a small puncture and it squirting out. Felt like a right royal idiot.
Well, got a new gopro for Christmas and decided to try it out today.
Made sure it was charged well the night before, then deciding how I was going to transport it to the trails, I though I'd put it in my sunglasses hardshell case so it's well protected (early start so did all this last night so everything was ready at the door for my pick up). Get to the track, get the bikes out, set up the camera on the mount, and turn it on as we ride out of the car park. 20 seconds later it beeps at me and shuts off. I stop and turn it back on, but it turns off straight away, though this time I notice the empty battery icon. Thinking damn, mustn't have charged it right (as my brother has one and had that issue the first time he used his), stopped worrying about it and finished the ride.
Get home, and there's heaps of video on the card, which should have been empty. Look at the file, and see black with the sound of a zipper being closed (ie the sound of the sunglasses case being closed the night before, which was a little tight on the fit). The file goes for 2 hours of black with the odd faint sounds of muffled conversation every now and then in the background........ Fwit!:doh:
Made sure it was charged well the night before, then deciding how I was going to transport it to the trails, I though I'd put it in my sunglasses hardshell case so it's well protected (early start so did all this last night so everything was ready at the door for my pick up). Get to the track, get the bikes out, set up the camera on the mount, and turn it on as we ride out of the car park. 20 seconds later it beeps at me and shuts off. I stop and turn it back on, but it turns off straight away, though this time I notice the empty battery icon. Thinking damn, mustn't have charged it right (as my brother has one and had that issue the first time he used his), stopped worrying about it and finished the ride.
Get home, and there's heaps of video on the card, which should have been empty. Look at the file, and see black with the sound of a zipper being closed (ie the sound of the sunglasses case being closed the night before, which was a little tight on the fit). The file goes for 2 hours of black with the odd faint sounds of muffled conversation every now and then in the background........ Fwit!:doh:
forest_ninja
Banned
Sounds like my ex girlfriends final moments
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
Forrest Ninja - I did a hearty chuckle.
UncleFeet
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Here's one for ya...
I broke a spoke the other day and decided to cut the bulk off and go out and ride anyway...shuffled around on the bench through all the shit looking for a cutter, found it and then cut the spoke off about 5mm from the nipple....a perfectly good spoke...farkwit indeed
I broke a spoke the other day and decided to cut the bulk off and go out and ride anyway...shuffled around on the bench through all the shit looking for a cutter, found it and then cut the spoke off about 5mm from the nipple....a perfectly good spoke...farkwit indeed
moorey
call me Mia
I felt the same way riding one. Damn dangerous, those 29ers :rant:
Putting some directional road tyres on my commuter. Forgot they were directional until the first wheel goes back on. Take it off, remove the tyre and spend fucking ten minutes trying to figure out which way to put the tyre on. Then put it on the same way as before, which turned out to be the right way after all.
Marathon plus tyres too, which are a prick to get on or off. Nice one.
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Marathon plus tyres too, which are a prick to get on or off. Nice one.
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On that note a pro-tip - never do maintenance on small bolts/washers/nuts/screws on a timber deck... have lost a couple of things down there, thankfully nothing major, have to remember to put a tarp down next time
Knuckles
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Or a lawn.......On that note a pro-tip - never do maintenance on small bolts/washers/nuts/screws on a timber deck... have lost a couple of things down there, thankfully nothing major, have to remember to put a tarp down next time
My confession: Left for a "summer" holiday in Tassie, having packed only shorts and t-shirts. Fuckwit!
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charlieking97
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Listed iPad case on eBay. Finally sold after a fortnight. Recieved cash and enveloped ready to post. Have flashback to seeing the word 'Mini' in the title which was modeled off another listing - confirmed. Case is for full sized ipads. Refunds sent after i lost a few dollars in ebay/paypal fees before relisting with one less word in the title. Might just quit this selling shit thing altogether
Jim Junkie
Used to sell drugs, now he just takes them
^This, took me a while (far longer than it should have) to notice, and the derailleur now bears 2 grooves on the outside of the flange.
Cheapskate fuck-wittery: re-laced my roadie / commuter wheels and forgot to get rim tape. Rather than do the right thing and go get some, I think 'hey, sticky tape will cover those holes'. Run some electrical tape around the rim a few times, thinking I'll change it soon when I get some proper rim tape. That, of course, doesn't happen. I get a flat a few months later on the way to work, so spend my lunch running around getting a few more inners to get me home. Put the first one in, pump it up and get to around 80psi and -boom-, there it goes. To continue my complete lack of thinking, I just think I must have had it pinched & try again with a new tube, same result. By this point I am out of tubes and finally notice the hole in my makeshift rim-tape where the tube has pushed it through a spoke hole. Idiot.
Riding to tennis with the tennis racket off the handlebar by the bag strap. It swings nicely into the front wheel and jams it up, sending me endo onto the pavement.
Converting to tubeless but (once again) being a cheapskate and not purchasing proper tubeless ready tires, instead opting to re-use some Nevegal's I had lying around. Second trail I take a leap, land & tear a gaping hole in the tire and ripping it off the rim, sending me straight into a tree at high speed. Result: Badly dislocated finger & 3 months occupational therapy to get it moving again.
Not checking my bike before a ride, only at the start of the next ride checking why the rear end felt sloppy and noticing a bolt missing out of the suspension assembly. Thankfully after disassembling and rebuilding the rear end the bolt holes lined up again and it all went back together.
I could go on, but I think I'll leave it there for now.
I've done this a few times. Used to pull 36 hour shifts every few days. Damned if I was going to drop riding out of my life.
One time, another 36 hour shift - smashed out every track in Daisy Hill with a buddy, probably around 40 odd kms. Got back to the car and realised I'd dropped my phone along the way. Found it 8km from the car. Was pretty knackered and pissed off by this point.
I have a terrible memory.
Went down to the shed to put new brake pads in the moto. Take caliper off. Realise the shop gave me the wrong size pads. Put caliper back on.
2 hours later...
"Did I bed in those new pads yet?" Ride bike out of the garage, and hit 5th in our small suburban street before realizing I wasnt slowing down as quick as I should be. Hit a bush. Retard.
Went down to the shed to put new brake pads in the moto. Take caliper off. Realise the shop gave me the wrong size pads. Put caliper back on.
2 hours later...
"Did I bed in those new pads yet?" Ride bike out of the garage, and hit 5th in our small suburban street before realizing I wasnt slowing down as quick as I should be. Hit a bush. Retard.
Took my old bars and stem off, decided it would be a good idea to firstly clamp the bars into the new stem then slide it onto the steerer after.
Spent a long time wandering why my 1/8th stem wasn't going onto the 1/8th steerer - how could I fuck up buying such a simple part?
Realised after finishing my beer that I'd put the bars on the wrong way and was trying to force the stem on upside down (was reading hussfelt upsdie down and it was making sense?)
Put on the right way up and then spent ages flipping the bars around and lining them up straight and avoiding scratches.
Went to slide on brakes and shifters, fuck the cables were too reach the end of the new bar. Had to undo face clamp and slide bars over to get shifters/brakes on.
Then managed to get degreaser in my eye.
The beers were nice though.
Spent a long time wandering why my 1/8th stem wasn't going onto the 1/8th steerer - how could I fuck up buying such a simple part?
Realised after finishing my beer that I'd put the bars on the wrong way and was trying to force the stem on upside down (was reading hussfelt upsdie down and it was making sense?)
Put on the right way up and then spent ages flipping the bars around and lining them up straight and avoiding scratches.
Went to slide on brakes and shifters, fuck the cables were too reach the end of the new bar. Had to undo face clamp and slide bars over to get shifters/brakes on.
Then managed to get degreaser in my eye.
The beers were nice though.