Frustrating little things

[Colin_P]

Then you put it in the frame and close the QR. It moves a namometre and changes from "just so" to "too tight".

Forgot about that and it can be quite significant!

I once limped home with a snapped axle with just the skewer holding it together and in place. The power of the skewer cannot be under estimated.


Another one I've just thought of is carefully lining the wordy printed bit on your tyre up with the valve only to find it has moved way out of alignment once you have put the wheel back on and pumped it up!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The clamps for lights, bells, mirrors that are never quite the right size for your bars. So you have various bodges to get a good fit after you’ve lost the nut and bolt for the twentieth time.

 

[cyberknight]

What calipers are those, never had to do that for Giant, Shimano, Avid, or Trp calipers?

tektro , according to the blurb your supposed to take the calipers off the frame but i cant see why you would have to ? I would like to upgrade them at some point

 

[Smokin Joe]

The clamps for lights, bells, mirrors that are never quite the right size for your bars. So you have various bodges to get a good fit after you’ve lost the nut and bolt for the twentieth time.

Those muthas are deliberately made not to fit and you can guarantee that the supplied bolts will be too short.

 

[tyred]

Great fun putting a Maillard freewheel block back together while pawl springs ping into the Bermuda triangle.

 

[matticus]

Those muthas are deliberately made not to fit and you can guarantee that the supplied bolts will be too short.

The stupid thing is that a selection of bolts would cost them about tuppence 2 centimes

 

[davidphilips]

Trying to fix a puncture when really cold in the dark with frozen fingers, nothing seems to go right, tyre just wont come of rim , can not find any thing in tyre that caused puncture then refitting tyre seems like a mixture of solving a rubik cube and some form of torture.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Getting a saddle level and straight. Perfect until you start tightening the clamp bolt/s, fine until the last few turns of the allen key, then somehow it's moved ......