You always get home ....

[Beebo]

One night riding home my bottom bracket bearings went. I always carry a spare, so a few strategic taps with a hammer and chisel and I was on my way again.

I presume this is one of your tall tales?
Surely no one carries the necessary equipment to remove a BB at the side of the road?

 

[KneesUp]

That is one reason I like them - any car pump will fit them

when I was a kid I always used to use the air hose in petrol stations - they were free in those days

I did this too. I used to have an adaptor on my 10 speed Peugeot “racer” so I could use garage air lines. Much easier than doing it yourself when you’re a kid without a track pump.

i rode my bike home from university once. The left pedal bearings failed on Snake Pass and natch the bearings rolled away. So I rode most of the way with a pedal with no bearings, just the pedal on the axle. First time I stopped I forgot and rather than getting me foot out of the toe clips, I needed up removing the pedal.

 

[Sharky]

The "winner" of this thread should go to Eugène Christophe.

Famous for inventing toe clips, but also for repairing his frame, by welding at a village black smith, during a tour de France stage.

 

[C R]

I presume this is one of your tall tales?
Surely no one carries the necessary equipment to remove a BB at the side of the road?

You just need to have a large enough trolley to carry your bike workshop with you.

 

[Drago]

I presume this is one of your tall tales?
Surely no one carries the necessary equipment to remove a BB at the side of the road?

It was tongue in cheek. Hammer and chisel is very much thks weeks jn vogue topic of CC discussion.

 

[ColinJ]

The "winner" of this thread should go to Eugène Christophe.

Famous for inventing toe clips, but also for repairing his frame, by welding at a village black smith, during a tour de France stage.

It was actually the forks, and he was penalised for getting a 7 year old boy to operate the bellows for the forge...!

Christophe said:

I plunged full speed towards the valley. According to Henri Desgrange's calculation,[3] I was then heading the general classification with a lead of 18 minutes. So, I was going full speed. All of a sudden, about ten kilometres from Ste-Marie-de-Campan down in the valley, I feel that something is wrong with my handlebars. I cannot steer my bike any more. I pull on my brakes and I stop. I see my forks are broken. Well, I tell you now that my forks were broken but I wouldn't say it at the time because it was bad publicity for my sponsor.And there I was left alone on the road. When I say the road, I should say the path. All the riders I had dropped during the climb soon caught me up. I was weeping with anger. I remember I heard my friend Petit-Breton shouting as he saw me, 'Ah, Cri-Cri, poor old lad.'[4] I was getting angry. As I walked down, I was looking for a short cut. I thought maybe one of those pack trails would lead me straight to Ste-Marie-de-Campan. But I was weeping so badly that I couldn't see anything. With my bike on my shoulder, I walked for more than ten kilometres. On arriving in the village at Ste-Marie-de-Campan, I met a young girl who led me to the blacksmith on the other side of the village. His name was Monsieur Lecomte.[1][5]
It took two hours to reach the forge. Lecomte offered to weld the broken forks back together but a race official and managers of rival teams would not allow it. A rider, said the rules, was responsible for his own repairs and outside assistance was prohibited. Christophe set about the repair as Lecomte told him what to do. It took three hours and the race judge penalised him 10 minutes – reduced later to three – because Christophe had allowed a seven-year-old boy, Corni, to pump the bellows for him.[1] Filling his pockets with bread, Christophe set off over two more mountains and eventually finished the tour in seventh place.[6] The building on the site of the forge has a plaque commemorating the episode.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I did this too. I used to have an adaptor on my 10 speed Peugeot “racer” so I could use garage air lines. Much easier than doing it yourself when you’re a kid without a track pump.

i rode my bike home from university once. The left pedal bearings failed on Snake Pass and natch the bearings rolled away. So I rode most of the way with a pedal with no bearings, just the pedal on the axle. First time I stopped I forgot and rather than getting me foot out of the toe clips, I needed up removing the pedal.

I had a 10 speed Peugeot racer in the 1970s

I was the only person I knew that had a 10 speed bike!!!

not exactly sure the exact model but it mighthave been something like a UO8
steel frame anyway

some moron stole it from my garage many years later!!

 

[cyberknight]

about halfway around a 100 km sportive my shifter cable decides to go haywire and stop shifting the rear derailleur so i limped to the next stop where there was mechanical support and they turned it into a single speed bike by adjusting the h/l stops and i managed to complete the sportive and make a 100 mile day by the time i got home .

 

[Electric_Andy]

I was out with my mate one summer in 1993ish. I got a puncture, we had no spares or tools. An older lad in our school cycles by and offered us an inner tube. But I didn't have QR and no one had a spanner. so we tied my tube to the frame and stuffed the tyre with moss. It got me half way home (about 3 miles) but I was going too fast and ended up with one big lump of moss due to centrifugal force. had to push the last 3 miles. had I gone slower down the hills, it probably would have worked ok

 

[Punkawallah]

A legendary tale from a club run donkey's years ago was that one chap snapped his seat post miles from home (and I mean probably thirty or forty miles from home). A repair was effected by splicing the two parts of the hollow seat post with a piece of broom handle, snapped off a broom which had been carelessly 'fly-tipped' in someone's backyard with the top sticking up over the wall .

Yes, but can you believe the donkey? :-)

 

[steveindenmark]

I just reduce everything that can go wrong😆😆

 

[EckyH]

I just reduce everything that can go wrong😆😆

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The bottom bracket fell off!

E.

 

[Windle]

Yes, but can you believe the donkey? :-)

Knowing Weardale Road Club and the stuff they got up to it's perfectly believable.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Lost all drive frrom my Hunt Aero Light Disc freehub in Soberton on my way out, ~11 miles from home. Had no idea what was going on, had never experienced this before, turned bike upside down and looked at cassette plus axle endcaps. By luck drive returned and I very gingerly headed home

 

[ColinJ]

Lost all drive frrom my Hunt Aero Light Disc freehub in Soberton on my way out, ~11 miles from home. Had no idea what was going on, had never experienced this before, turned bike upside down and looked at cassette plus axle endcaps. By luck drive returned and I very gingerly headed home

There are different types of freehub but it sounds like you have one with pawls which were not reengaging after freewheeling. Sometimes that is because there is gunk inside the freehub. It could be a problem with (a) pawl spring(s) though...

Some freehubs have separate springs for each pawl. In that case, one pawl might fail without affecting the others. I once had a problem with a different type which had a spring wire which wrapped round the freehub and operated all 3 pawls. Until the spring broke, and no longer did, that is!

It is possible that one could restore drive by picking up the back end of the bike and dropping it back down, preferably while spinning the cranks in the direction normally used for pedalling. That might free the pawls or make them jump into the drive position and lock there as long as the pressure was kept on the chain. If drive is restored, try as much as possible to avoid freewheeling because the problem could come back at any time.