Writing instructions on the bike. Is it just me?

[ColinJ]

I don't write text on my bikes, but I do sometimes mark handlebar or seat post positions before altering them in case I want to go back to the originals.

Talking about written instructions on things ... I recently bought a new toilet seat. When I was fitting it I saw that the 2 mounting pieces that I had to bolt to the toilet were labelled L and R so I bolted the L to the left side and R to the right side. The right side which turned out to be the wrong side!

If you think about it, the natural place to be when bolting on a toilet seat is in front of the toilet. This product was labelled as if I were kneeling where the cistern was!

 

[fossyant]

This way up?

Ah, I knew I'd gone wrong !!

 

[fossyant]

Could put one of these on the seat post....

 

[Mile195]

I think it's just you...

However I do leave myself "visual cues" when I want to remember to do something. For example, if I think I should clean my chain when I get home from work, I leave the chain cleaner in the middle of the garage floor so I won't forget about it until the next day when I'm about to go to work again. Sadly this doesn't always work. I started hanging punctured inner tubes that need fixing over my work stand so I'd remember to do them. Unfortunately they've now been there for so long I've stopped noticing them!

 

[Sara_H]

I think it's just you...

However I do leave myself "visual cues" when I want to remember to do something. For example, if I think I should clean my chain when I get home from work, I leave the chain cleaner in the middle of the garage floor so I won't forget about it until the next day when I'm about to go to work again. Sadly this doesn't always work. I started hanging punctured inner tubes that need fixing over my work stand so I'd remember to do them. Unfortunately they've now been there for so long I've stopped noticing them!

You have a clear space in your garage that you can put things on? Are you one of those tidy people?

 

[Mile195]

You have a clear space in your garage that you can put things on? Are you one of those tidy people?

I would do... If I didn't keep leaving things like chain cleaner on the floor....

 

[pawl]

When I'm adjusting the brakes I can never remember which way to turn the little screws. So I wrote this on the bike in permanent marker.

Anyone else write useful instructions on their bike?

No but I am of an age I have L & R on my shoes.

 

[Fnaar]

I have Giant on my 2 road bikes, to remind me to get taller
I have Carrera on my MTB in case I go to Spain, and want to race.
I have 'Edinburgh Bikes' on my tourer, to remind me of Hogmanay (etc)
I have Raleigh on an old MTB frame to remind me to discover stuff, smoke and put cloaks over puddles.

 

[tyred]

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I have Raleigh on an old MTB frame to remind me to discover stuff, smoke and put cloaks over puddles.

I was riding along on my customised pink Raleigh Chopper and saw a pretty girl waiting to cross the road but there was a puddle of water so I stopped and removed my anorak and placed it in the puddle and invited me to cross. She looked at me as if I was mad. Can't work out why?

 

[Fnaar]

I was riding along on my customised pink Raleigh Chopper and saw a pretty girl waiting to cross the road but there was a puddle of water so I stopped and removed my anorak and placed it in the puddle and invited me to cross. She looked at me as if I was mad. Can't work out why?

Maybe because your pink chopper was a bit of a shock to her?

 

[tyred]

Maybe because your pink chopper was a bit of a shock to her?

My chopper has three speeds

 

[ColinJ]

My chopper has three speeds

Slow, slower and slowest?

 

[Fnaar]

My chopper has three speeds

Miss Goodbody often goes for a ride on the Vicar's purple chopper.

 

[derrick]

No need, the nice people who make them put H on the hot tap and C on the cold even I can remember this.

They may well have H & C on them, But do you know which way is on and which way is off.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

They have C&A on ladies undies I'm told.

I've had no direct experience I assure you.