Drillium Dude 

Choke and Insidious C. thank you for those explanations. I see the problem now

So far we've seen some interesting ****-ups. I love seeing stuff that's just a little short of Profesional

DD

cheffyjay

particularly delightful in light of the lack of a 'J' in the Italian alphabet. (it is called 'long i')

Drillium Dude 

I just noticed: the signage is correct if you're on a bike without handlebars (as the signage clearly depicts)

DD

Insidious C. 

I'd be tempted to alter the painted bike ^ to give it a bent front rim.

bulgie 

Unfortunately (?!) they fixed it. Sandblasted the old one off and painted a new sharrow out in the lane where it should be. This is about two blocks from my house, I pass it on the way to get my tacos.

Here's another example of the excellence of Seattle's bike infrastructure:

Can you see the signpost in the middle of the bike lane? It bisects the "O" in the word SLOW, helpfully painted on your lane about 15 feet after you just ran head-first into a pole. The pole has some totally essential sign like "No Parking" or some such, turned so as to be edge-on from the cyclist's point of view. The pole is helpfully painted camouflage grey, because a bright color would be unsightly. I wanna duct-tape a mattress to it, or pile hay bales in front of it, like they do for poles near a criterium course. That might cut down on YACHT SALES at the nearby businesses though, can't have that!

styggno1

Correcting someone elses blooper...

styggno1

Even if I have been in this hobby since the dinosaurs I do bloop some times...

jamesdak 

I'm sure there is but I've never bothered to check, LOL!

clubman 

English 3 speeds or 'Sports' bikes came with an EA3, 26 x 1 3/8', 590 mm bead rubber for everyday riding. Kinda fat, low pressure, go anywhere and you can still find them easily. Performance or club bikes got a slightly modified wheel. EA1, 26 X 1 1/4", 597mm bead with a narrower rim and had a suggested PSI stamped on the side, 'Inflate Hard'. So you have a mix of both sizes included on the sidewall, making it impossible to really tell if it's what you need without having a bare rim to test it. Schwinn did it as well when they made an S6 size, labelled as 26 x 1 3/8 but it had a 597mm bead and was also wide like the EA3's.
Oddly enough, this is an NOS Dunlop Imperial tire from the 60's and you'd think they would have known better since I believe they were involved in establishing these standards.

tricky 

Ugh, I've never even noticed that. I am just juking and jiving so much on that cycle path so much that my mind just lumps it in with the rest of the path turns, peds, dogs and boosted boards that I am weaving around.

Drillium Dude 

Been there, done that - in fact, I set myself up for failure at both ends:





DD

Cougrrcj

It happens everywhere -- my buddy has a very early production (August of 1970-build) '71 Mustang - yet the partial serial number that is stamped into the chassis (shock tower) is stamped with the year '0' for 1970. Doors may be changed, and dash pads may be changed, but the frame itself -- the only true unalterable VIN on the car??? Not even the same chassis as the '71 Mustang was totally different than '70 Mustang subframe/chassis - no parts are the same. Maybe a first day of model-year-production and the workers forgot to change the year digit in the serial-number stamp??? S(chtuff) happens, I guess...

madpogue 

I'll bet @-Mar would like this.

Or a rider doing an endo.

I'd have to eyeball a few bikes to come up with any "factory" bloopers. But in-service gaffes like the brake block oopsies above, I encounter those all the time. Some, no doubt, are from DIY previous owners, but I'd bet a nickel and a crushed cable ferrule that a good chunk of them are the work of LBS wrenches. Everything from the ---FORWARD---> arrow on brake pads pointing aft, to directional-tread tires mounted backward, to under-the-downtube derailleur cables crossing, to dog's-breakfast spoke mislacings. I treat them as the wrenching equivalent of Easter Eggs found on DVDs, little bonus points of amusement to discover.

Cougrrcj

Someone wasn't paying attention in 'Wheel-building School 101', now were they... Even my first attempt wasn't like this! LOL!

ThermionicScott 

My 26" Weinmann rims are stamped "ETRTO-599" when "ETRTO-559" would be correct...

Drillium Dude 

I see they were made in Elgium, too

DD

Lascauxcaveman 

It took me forever to figure out what this sticker on my 70's Araya Mixte said:

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OK, look at it and mentally fill in the blanks of the missing pieces of the decal and it says "Competition." That 's pretty obvious, right?

Here is a pic of the bike when it's *not* photographed upside-down:

P!N20

Not mine, but good to see the folks at Shimano were good enough to correct their error:



The build book for my Kypo states it was built using Reynolds 525, but the decal says 531c:

gearbasher

I guess they wanted it to sound more French.



But, is it truly a blooper if it's the same on both sides?

madpogue 

Naw, pseudo-French would have only one T. I think they just ran out of stay. Wow, that NDS one was definitely done on a Friday after a three-Cinzano lunch.

madpogue 

Yeah, I've seen a few of those Weinmanns of that level of quality, with the branding significantly "under-struck", and hard to make out.

noglider 

I have a few 1970s Raleighs.

Reynolds 

bulgie 

Hilarious -- where's that from? Some sorta magazine looks like. Aimed at a non-cyclist audience maybe?

Reynolds 

I googled "backwards fork" because I had seen that in a dept store ad before.