What are these little things?
03-01-21, 09:53 AM
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What are these little things?
You can see the scale compared to college rule lined paper.
They are metal and each has 2 tiny bumps along one side of the length.
Oh, and this isn't a contest where I reveal the answer. My wife found them between 3 bikes I am working on and I am dumbfounded as to what they are for.
...mark this down as a dumb workday winter thread.
They are metal and each has 2 tiny bumps along one side of the length.
Oh, and this isn't a contest where I reveal the answer. My wife found them between 3 bikes I am working on and I am dumbfounded as to what they are for.
...mark this down as a dumb workday winter thread.
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Your missing one. keep digging. Change any brake pads lately?
03-01-21, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by bark_eater
Your missing one. keep digging. Change any brake pads lately?
03-01-21, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by due ruote
Curious. What exactly is meant by "between 3 bikes?"
Are the long parts tubular?
Are the long parts tubular?
The long part isnt tubular. Its solid metal and is flat on all sides.
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I believe those are the three things you are to toss in the garbage when they're left on the floor after you move your bikes out of the room.
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03-01-21, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by SurferRosa
I believe those are the three things you are to toss in the garbage when they're left on the floor after you move your bikes out of the room.
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Originally Posted by due ruote
My guess is speed skating blades for 1-1/2 mice.
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03-01-21, 01:43 PM
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Wow, these look so much like the "runners" on the underside of my Apple wireless mouse, flanking the battery compartment.
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Originally Posted by due ruote
My guess is speed skating blades for 1-1/2 mice.
Originally Posted by mstateglfr
Well that one got a laugh out of my better half. Thanks
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03-01-21, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by bikingshearer
Shouldn't that be for three-quarters of a mouse?
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These are obviously the wheel balancing weights from one of your bikes.
03-01-21, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by due ruote
Most of the mice I have seen speed skating were able to do it on hind legs only. Long track, anyway.
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03-01-21, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by panzerwagon
These are obviously the wheel balancing weights from one of your bikes.
Fortunately, because you found three, at least one bike should still have one on the rim.
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Originally Posted by tgot
Fortunately, because you found three, at least one bike should still have one on the rim.
I don’t know if you’re being serious or not, but how do they attach to a rim?
They look very small, my wheel building skills are not at a level that these would make any difference.
Just put them in the Box O’ Crap.
03-02-21, 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by P!N20
I don’t know if you’re being serious or not, but how do they attach to a rim?
As a serious guess, maybe part of a reflector, the kind that wedges onto a pair of spokes? Hard to imagine three breaking at once though.
03-02-21, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by bikingshearer
That'll teach me to question the wisdom of an expert.
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03-02-21, 09:49 PM
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Those are pieces of crap that need to go into the recycle bin. Be good. Have fun.
03-03-21, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by blacknbluebikes
This is still bugging me.
They also look like they might be useful as spacers to gap and toe rim brake shoes.
03-03-21, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by DiabloScott
They look like those extra pieces of things from injection molded stuff that you break the desirable thing off of.
