For the Quick and Careless

[s_t_3_v_3]

There are always those moments when you're out in the middle of a ride, miles from nowhere and something on your bike breaks. For those situations, when you just don't have the equipment to fix it, you have to compensate.

I want to hear about some of your greatest bodge jobs or bushman tricks.

 

[fatass]

Not from me but I heard it somewhere, When a link in the chain breaks use the plastic thing on the end of your shoelace, You can only get like half-strokes but it's better than walking

 

[Gekigengar]

snapped my deraliure hanger...

so i broke the chain took the damn deraliure off and single speed it...

problem was there wassnt enough tension in any of the gears so i used zipties..


ziptied the chain stay and around the chain then gradually pulled it to give it tension..


worked for about a weekk..

 

[Doggy]

Dislocated my shoulder. Started walking out of bush and then it hit me to use my pants belt as a sling to hold my arm up. Wasnt a bodge job on the bike but it was a bodge job regardless. And it held it quite comfortably for the 1 hr or so it took to walk out and then held it as I drove to the hospital

 

[DJninja]

My freind got a pinch flat at the dual slalom and lived on the other side of town so who rim rode it all the way home and it was a brnad new bike

Bent my chain dropping to flat could only half peddle then had to back peddle then peddle and so fourth

Snapped my derailleur hanger got pissed of and kicked it and broke my derailleur had to walk my bike all the way home with a mangle derailleur and chain rubbing along the ground

 

[djdom]

hmmm put 1 5c coin between my pad and piston because the pads where soo worn down.. tryed to go ss after some fatty snapped my hanger.. benny tee lost his jocky wheel so i made it so it ran on the bolt. thats about it im sure anybody i ride with can add to the list

 

[strauss]

not bike related but coming back from queensland our car broke down in the middle of no where. turns out it was a cracked radiator my mate fixed it with some super glue and a plastic spoons.. got us all the way to wollongong then blew up within being about 5 seconds into wollongong.
took us a bit longer but we eventually made it.

 

[syphon_the_python]

My crank fell off on a ride in the rock garden section of our track, so naturally i utilised one of natures hammers to reinstall the said component...Yes i did wreck it

 

[Bat Man]

Oh sweet! Bush Mechanics for bikes! Did anyone ever see that show? Sorry but i dont have any stories yet but ill try.

 

[-DAvo]

not my story but i remember from one of vish's videos, seeing some dude with a snapped mountain cycle shockwave and wedging a big log into the frame to peice it back together.. dunno if he acctually rode it that way but if he did..... ghettoo....

 

[dirt rider]

I was watching a show ages ago about all the bodged up jobs for ya bike , And one of them got a flat tyre. So he took to tyre off with a stick , chucked away the tube and put a hose in instead

im sure it wouldnt be that great but good enough to get you home

 

[Gekigengar]

oh k..... and where would you get a hose from in the middle of nowhere???

 

[d_j1]

Perfect cure for flat tyre and no tube. Get one side of the tread off and remove the tube, and then pack the absolute shit out of the tread with grass and leaves until it becomes solid. I have personally tried this and you can get it hard enough that is rideable

 

[murrum]

as long as you have reasonably lightweight tubes - i have tried the knot tying technique when I have had a flat with a bit of success.

 

[Turner_rider]

I've seen the following:

Cassettes zip-tied to the spokes to fix wheel a broken freehub,
Broken carbon posts splinted with sticks and tape,
Broken seats/posts replaced with wrapped inflated tubes and clothing
Toothpaste tubes to stop tubes popping out gaping holes tyres.

 

[rell6103]

Two i think of for the moment,

The zip tie holding my brake line and gear cable onto the bike snapped and i found an old garbage bag and tied them back into place.

My crank fell off so i used a pebble to tighten up the allen bolt to hold them on.

 

[Povi]

a lot of zipties
tensioning my front derailleur which for some reason i use as a chain guide
holding my lever onto the rest of the lever bit (cant remember the name) and on my old bike a ziptie was used to hold the top of the lever bit (still cant remember the name) onto the rest of it, and another one holding the shifter onto the bar
SKETCHY

 

[Tofsy]

Yeah - we did the grass in the tyre trick as well! Pack enough in there and you can ride it

Pretty damn heavy though!

Pete

PS. We were outside the MCG so we probably could have walked to get another tube - but we thought it would be fun to stuff it with grass!

 

[v1llage1d1ot]

Zip Ties Rock

Once I broke my derailer hanger, so I zip tied the derailer and the chain up to the chainstay, and rolled home, it worked pretty well.

Another time the stanchons came out of the lowers on my forks, so I ziptied the crown to the arch so I could get home. After i'd done that I realized I should have used a tube to do the same thing, which I think woulf have worked better.

 

[Matt H]

Well, i've read about people tying tubes from the arch to the crown of their forks when the cartridges had blown to try and stop them topping out...