thecat
NSWMTB, Central Tableland MBC
Don't be a cock.
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Silly Mistakes Others Can Learn From!
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tom_burford_orr
Likes Dirt
This has got me through almost 2 years working at a bike shop. Apart from pedals and bottom brackets.
When painting a frame dont get super eager to see how your bike will look by putting on a super thick first coat.
McSweeney
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NEVER EVER Decide it's a cool idea to change your mate's forks over to his new ones the night before Illinbah. It rarely goes as planned.
To elaborate, NEVER EVER put forks on without the spacer or crown race or whatever, they feel fine, but when your forks move 1cm either way in your headset at 60km/h down the illinbah straight, he won't be having as much fun as you.
NEVER EVER use a drill with a home-made rounded allen key shaped like a star bolt thing, to take off rotors, it works, but fucked if they're going back on!
To elaborate, NEVER EVER put forks on without the spacer or crown race or whatever, they feel fine, but when your forks move 1cm either way in your headset at 60km/h down the illinbah straight, he won't be having as much fun as you.
NEVER EVER use a drill with a home-made rounded allen key shaped like a star bolt thing, to take off rotors, it works, but fucked if they're going back on!
nickhagee
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dont get drunk
never ride your bike if something doesn't feel right... especially loose hubs
double check that rock that looks like you jump off on a new dh trail... it might be more vertical than it appears (ow my head)
why? ive always put the chainring on first and then put the cranks on over the backplate without the top and bottom guides on and then put those on, its alot easier
Dont jump straight in ans start ripping taking things apart when afterward you find out you dont know how to put it back together
hmm for example,when your front derailleur is #$%%$% and rubbing against your chain,dont take it apart in the middle of the bush,realise you cant put it back together,loose all the little parts,try and take your chain apart to remove the &^^%^& derailleur with house keys,
evan thoumine 2508
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and NEVER WD-40 ur chain, collects more dust and other stuff that isnt good
Nmag
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-Don't ride with no shin guards if you ride with aggressive Funn platform pedals.
-Don't forget your clipped in if you put your Crank Bro Candy pedals on.
-If you don't like leaches don't stand around in bracken fern when it's warm if you haven't sprayed your shoes with serious amounts of insect repellent.
-Don't forget your clipped in if you put your Crank Bro Candy pedals on.
-If you don't like leaches don't stand around in bracken fern when it's warm if you haven't sprayed your shoes with serious amounts of insect repellent.
jailbait
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Make sure your chain isn't too long, it can get caught in the spokes destroying your derailleur, if riding a fully with a lengthening rear end make sure it's not too tight.
BB thread is backward on the drive side.
Keep your spokes tensioned well otherwise your rim wont last.
Keep an eye on brake pad material if you don't want to replace your pads and rotors.
Keep cranks done up tight or the spline will die.
If your bottom bracket is creaking it probably just needs the threads greased.
BB thread is backward on the drive side.
Keep your spokes tensioned well otherwise your rim wont last.
Keep an eye on brake pad material if you don't want to replace your pads and rotors.
Keep cranks done up tight or the spline will die.
If your bottom bracket is creaking it probably just needs the threads greased.
sawtell
The Great White Rooks Hunter
i know this, BUT it still led to the biggest fuck up i have ever done!!!
i bought a new set of cranks, the shop had just assembled the cranks for postage, BUT they had put the left cup on the right side, and the right cup on the left side (external BB)...
any way, when going to undo my BB, i purely just looked at my "new" bb, to see what way the thread went..
after 30 minutes of it not budging, i soaked it in wd40, over night, tried next day, still wouldnt budge, ended up rounding it...
I then was done to last resorts, thinking my BB was seized in there, i went at it with the grinder, griding of the face of the bb, worked well, once i took the face of the bb of, i was able to undo what was left with my fingers....
it was at this point, my dad picks up the cranks, and goes you realise you were looking at the non drive side, when you were working out the thread!!!
fuck i felt like a dick
