CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
e-rider, perhaps you can let us know some more examples of unfashionable bicycle operations so that we can be sure to use them - I'd hate to be accidentally fashionable.
what's with the bike upside down?
- Thread starter e-rider
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I would have thought there was more chance of damage using this method, certainly moves about more when it is on it's side.I've always laid the bike on its side, less chance of scraping the saddle/bars. Not flipped a bike over since I was about 12
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
On a sportive when I realised I'd completely messed up my gears, I flipped the bike, re-indexed and then got on with it. Was a funny old day that one, the same family passed me 3 times and I would re-pass them 10 mins later when Dad was stopped fixing yet another puncture.....
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I even find it easier to flip the bike than use a work stand, more for the putty back in bit than the takey out bit. I'm an inverted snob.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
I'd be interested to know how they did it 'back in the day'.
I would have thought the advantage of "flipping" and fixing puncture with the wheel on avoids the need to fiddle with the brakes, a less important issue nowadays.
mickle
innit
- Location
- 53.933606, -1.076131
Never. Its terribly bad form. Just rest the bike gently on the rear mech if necessary. It wont come to any harm.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I tried that, but I couldn't reach, to fix the puncture. I'm a flipper... it makes sense. Anything else is just like peeing at the urinal with your hands behind your head, saying 'look at me, I have a large appendage'Whatever the debate, you always get someone who sits on the fence
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e-rider
Banned member
- Location
- South West
no problem, laying the bike rear mech/chainset side down on the floor. Posting photos on the web of the LH side of the bike. Having long un-crimped inner wires. Pie plates. Reflectors. Silver pedals on an all-black component bike........the list is long. Valve nuts. No alignment of tyre logo and valve. Size sticker still on frame. Warning stickers on LH crank. Shimano 'LG' stickers on every component. Handlebars tilted excessively up or down. Saddle pointing to the floor and shoved right forward .....more?
Peteaud
Veteran
- Location
- South Somerset
Where can I buy these warning stickers as that's all I need for the entire checklist.
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e-rider
Banned member
- Location
- South West
HalfordsWhere can I buy these warning stickers as that's all I need for the entire checklist.
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e-rider
Banned member
- Location
- South West
It's Sunday evening 
jazzkat
Fixed wheel fanatic.
- Location
- The Cumbrian Riviera
Undo skewer, hold seat post, remove rear wheel. Place wheel on the floor. Now with two hands free gently place bike on its side on the floor. Where would any damage be caused?
Alternatively -bike flipped over, no matter how gently you try to remove or replace the wheel you will scrape the saddle/shifters and you stand a much greater chance of the bike falling over causing lots more damage.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
Bunch of nobbers!!2881499 said:
It's a laugh innit
