8 out of 10 BSOs

[gbb]

..in my works cycle shed have got rusty chains

Heathens....i just oiled them, just can't walk past them anymore

 

[summerdays]

Well mines rusty this week due to all that rain we have had .. if I give you directions could you come and save me the bother of doing it tomorrow?

 

[marinyork]

Haven't been on my bike for getting one for a week except a short test ride. My chain seized up and just had to lube it .

 

[TVC]

Looks familiar, our works bike shed contains some of them. Congrats on 4000 posts gbb.

 

[upsidedown]

I've used that much over the winter i'm now on the dregs of a bottle of 3 in 1

 

[krushavik]

It never ceases to amaze me how these rusty old chains keep going. If it were mine it would snap and I'd be over the handle bars.

 

[Smokin Joe]

The average bike owner foregoes all maintenance with the exception of pumping the tyres up when the rims start to bottom out too much.

 

[gbb]

Looks familiar, our works bike shed contains some of them. Congrats on 4000 posts gbb.

Wahayyy, thanks

It wasn't a 100% sucess mind, one guys Peugeot Y frame mtbs chain was so rusty, i couldnt rotate the cranks backwards to oil the chain...sod it, gave up. Gawld only knows what it sounds like as he pedals along.

Does this happen anywhere else ? Is it just immigrant workers who treat their stuff this way ?
The catalogue of dodgy looking bikes is never ending.

 

[Cheule]

Before I found this place, my MTB looked like that. Thanks to tips and heaps of help from you all, it's faring much better now

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Are you sure that's rust? It looks more like chicken kurma to me. Perhaps the bike was killed in a drive-by marinade...

 

[downfader]

Are you sure that's rust? It looks more like chicken kurma to me. Perhaps the bike was killed in a drive-by marinade...

If he's been riding through my neighbourhood it could have been dog poop.

 

[Browser]

You'll not make any friends doing that. I once was told by a 'dry chain biker' that running his chain like that "stopped him getting oil on his trousers"!!

 

[Bayerd]

You'll not make any friends doing that. I once was told by a 'dry chain biker' that running his chain like that "stopped him getting oil on his trousers"!!

I know the feeling. There's me, on dress down Friday, in me baggies. I get on the bike in the dark, and don't realise until I get home that some ****'s gone and spilt oil all over me chain.

gbb, you owe me a pair of jeans......

 

[Spinney]

I know the feeling. There's me, on dress down Friday, in me baggies. I get on the bike in the dark, and don't realise until I get home that some ****'s gone and spilt oil all over me chain.

gbb, you owe me a pair of jeans......

That's why cycling legwear is mostly black. In the summer I always come back with a nice black impression of one of the front rings somewhere on my calves. I'm thinking of getting a tattoo like that done...

 

[summerdays]

I would rather get chain marks on my leg than my clothes ... it comes off much easier and half the time I've already got sunscreen on ... which makes the oil marks come off much easier. (I've even used sunscreen once to clean my hands after sorting out a friend's mucky twisted chain.) Note I haven't tried using it to lubricate the chain... (yet)