What's the Dumbest thing you have ever done to your bike??
12-03-09, 11:43 AM
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What's the Dumbest thing you have ever done to your bike??
OK, I have been truly inspired by the "elmer's glue posting"....so here goes...feel free to add your own stupidity:
I'll start:
1. Ruined a perfectly good crank by cross-threading a pedal and gorilla-tightening it in.
2. Nearly crashed by trying to whack in a loose bar plug while riding (don't do this! Trust me)
3. (not to my bike but to my body) Tried Performance GEL shorts. Yuck.
I'll start:
1. Ruined a perfectly good crank by cross-threading a pedal and gorilla-tightening it in.
2. Nearly crashed by trying to whack in a loose bar plug while riding (don't do this! Trust me)
3. (not to my bike but to my body) Tried Performance GEL shorts. Yuck.
12-03-09, 11:55 AM
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Loaned my nice vintage 1984 crome moly Religh Mountan Tour to my brother after losing his license to a DUI. He rode it to the scrap yard and sold it for 5.00bucks. Said he needed a pack of smokes real bad.
12-03-09, 11:59 AM
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Done TO the bike or On the bike? To the bike would be getting "them" stolen. On the bike? Well, when I was 14, we wanted to pretend that we were dragsters with a parachute popping out of the back to slow us down. So, I swipped a bed sheet, some twine, and made one. I attached it to the back of my Stingray bike (who didn't have one of those?) and raced down the hill and popped the chute. Cool! When I called all my friends to see me do this, I raced down the hill, pulled the cord that closed my chute pack, and the cute popped out and fell into the spokes of the rear wheel and I ended up in a spectacular wipe out. Nest year, I skipped the chute pack and just folded the chute/bed sheet and held it in my hand. Down the hill I want at high speed, I flipped the chute over my shoulder ready for it to pop open only to see that one of the lines had gotten caught on my hand break lever. ****, this is gonna hurt, was all I could think. It did. The handle bar was wrenched to the left by the chute opening and down I went hard! No helmet, certainly no body armor. Just me and the road.
12-03-09, 12:01 PM
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12-03-09, 12:27 PM
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Tried to remove a bottom bracket with a plumber's wrench.
Threw my mountain bike because I fell and bent the derailleur hanger... the throwing caused the hanger to bend more and crack.
The grand prize, however, goes to my mother for driving into the garage with both my and my brother's track bikes on the Yakima rack.
I did that once. It's great when you realize the stupidity of what you're doing the moment you do it.
Threw my mountain bike because I fell and bent the derailleur hanger... the throwing caused the hanger to bend more and crack.
The grand prize, however, goes to my mother for driving into the garage with both my and my brother's track bikes on the Yakima rack.
I did that once. It's great when you realize the stupidity of what you're doing the moment you do it.
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12-03-09, 12:28 PM
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Oh yeah, and I have fallen because of a clipless moment... but MOST people do that too 
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Never adjust your bike the night before a race. Ever.
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Black and red bar tape.
Green tubulars.
Green tubulars.
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rode it on a bike path. some d-bag on a $100 mountain bike wearing headphones pulled right into me. i had shouted to him many times that i was passing on the left...... tool.
12-03-09, 01:16 PM
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While we're on that...
White/purple marble bar tape, purple anodized bottle cages and skewers, and purple seat bag... when the bike didn't have purple to begin with.
Quick release seatpost binder, just because it was anodized blue to match the other parts.
Flourescent green bottle cages, just because it was a freebie and my new frame had a siny bit of flourescent green text on it.
White/purple marble bar tape, purple anodized bottle cages and skewers, and purple seat bag... when the bike didn't have purple to begin with.
Quick release seatpost binder, just because it was anodized blue to match the other parts.
Flourescent green bottle cages, just because it was a freebie and my new frame had a siny bit of flourescent green text on it.
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Once, ten years ago, I wore gym shorts over my cycling shorts. In public. People saw me.
12-03-09, 01:37 PM
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Hit a speed bump while riding no hands at night on a very dark road while high as a kite.
Highschool rocked.
Highschool rocked.
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Tighten a FSA KForce nds crank arm. If you have done it before, you know what happens next.
I've a SRAM Force crank arriving in the near future.
I've a SRAM Force crank arriving in the near future.
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oooohhh this reminds me of when i rode by black bmx gt robbinson straight into a knee-high chain hanging between two poles to block the entrance of a parking lot. yes it was dark outside.
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I sawed my wife's carbon fork steerer. With the compression plug still in. It took me MUCH longer than it should have to realize.
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On my bike - at age 13 I rode my bike off the bed of our pick-up truck because I could not bully my bothers into doing it. Did not turn out so well. But my brothers laughed like h*ll...