Team Sky build week

[rusky]

Full pics here http://imgur.com/a/OVRu4

 

[TissoT]

Cha Ching.... housed in Belgium
Hope its got good security around the building

 

[ColinJ]

Write 1,500 lines *** - "Safety is a vital aspect of Team Sky's ethos, so in future I will avoid at all times standing on stools to do my work!"



*** I was told to write 500 such lines at school for talking in class. I thought that was ridiculous and said so. The teacher immediately ordered me to do an extra 500, at which point I burst out laughing. He ran over to me, and screamed in my face to make that 1,500 lines and I had better not laugh again if I knew what was good for me!

I Sellotaped 5 pens in a row so I effectively only wrote 300 lines, but it still took me ages.

 

[helston90]

I'm sure they wouldn't miss one going missing would they?
And I'm sure the bikes would rather I was out thrashing them through the winter rather than just hanging in a storage locker.

 

[Hont]

*** I was told to write 500 such lines at school for talking in class. I thought that was ridiculous and said so. The teacher immediately ordered me to do an extra 500, at which point I burst out laughing. He ran over to me, and screamed in my face to make that 1,500 lines and I had better not laugh again if I knew what was good for me!

OT, but I remember a similar incident from school where a mate (genuinely not me) was given 100 lines and each time he uttered a syllable in protest it went up 100 lines. He got to 1300 before he realised he should just shut up.

 

[winjim]

Write 1,500 lines *** - "Safety is a vital aspect of Team Sky's ethos, so in future I will avoid at all times standing on stools to do my work!"

A workshop presumably fitted out with all the pro quality bicycle tools you could need. But nobody thought to bring a stepladder.

ETA: Hang about, there's an elephant's foot in the first picture!

 

[Hont]

I've come out in a cold sweat thinking about truing all those wheels.

 

[ColinJ]

A workshop presumably fitted out with all the pro quality bicycle tools you could need. But nobody thought to bring a stepladder.

Somebody I worked with was once standing on an office chair to try and reach something; a chair with wheels ... He got buzzed by a wasp and tried to swat it. Predictably, it ended in tears! The chair slipped away from under him and his teeth slammed down onto the corner of his desk!

I will only do high-level jobs from stepladders after witnessing that, and only on the first couple of steps unless somebody is holding the stepladder for me.

 

[themosquitoking]

Somebody I worked with was once standing on an office chair to try and reach something; a chair with wheels ... He got buzzed by a wasp and tried to swat it. Predictably, it ended in tears! The chair slipped away from under him and his teeth slammed down onto the corner of his desk!

I will only do high-level jobs from stepladders after witnessing that, and only on the first couple of steps unless somebody is holding the stepladder for me.

You pointed and laughed though yeah?

 

[SWSteve]

Where did this talk of doing lines come from? I thought that business ended with Boonen?

 

[ColinJ]

You pointed and laughed though yeah?

Watching people spit out broken teeth is not my thing, so I winced and looked away while someone else dealt with it!

 

[HF2300]

Something doesn't add up in the captions though. 80 bikes, 10 mechanics (so 8 bikes per mechanic), 2 hours per bike, that's 16 hours per mechanic. What did they do the rest of the week?!

 

[ianrauk]

Something doesn't add up in the captions though. 80 bikes, 10 mechanics (so 8 bikes per mechanic), 2 hours per bike, that's 16 hours per mechanic. What did they do the rest of the week?!

Why the rush?
And I can imagine fitting and setting up Di2 takes a little bit longer then usual gears.

 

[rusky]

And test ride them!