Got fed up of the chain derailing on my 1×9 commuting bike whenever a pothole coincided with a gear change…

BEHOLD:

Old light bracket and a cleverly adapted/shaped/twisted corner-brace. Worship me.

Nice use of flathead screw. Does it actually work?

Ker-wality! Looks as good as most and probably loads lighter too.

Does it actually work?

Oops too late!

Works an absolute dream with no rubbage at all.

I use an old mech wedged open with the bit-o-plastic that came with it. Works beautifully.

How much posted? There's got to be a market for something of that quality.

Who said the UK manufacturing industry is dead :O)

that's nothing:

(broken frame fixed with a shoelace, electrical tape and an inner-tube)

yes i rode it, yes it held.

bonus bodge points for use slotty screw, other points would have been available but you seem to have made it all the same colour 🙂
Do post up again after a few days to tell us how well it works.

ahwiles – wish I'd had such ingenuity when my Hemlock snapped. Had to walk 8 or 9 miles back to the car.

It's good, but it drops a couple of points through not making use of a piece of old inner tube, as any high-scoring bodge should.

now all you need to do is fashion yourself a new bottom bracket, that one looks a little rusty 😉

And to think of the amount I paid for a Pauls chain keeper that does exactly the same job…

Genius work. 😀

ahwiles – wish I'd had such ingenuity when my Hemlock snapped. Had to walk 8 or 9 miles back to the car.

Hmmmm that could be the Hemlock off my shortlist.

Great piece of bodge is that, did the crudcatcher chap make a million from his sawn through coke bottle? Get it patented.

Excellent, pump peg and bent metal? I see the chain guide is drilled for lightness too 🙂

Where's the duct tape and where are the cable ties?

Where's the duct tape and where are the cable ties?

Same place as the pigeon feathers, bailer twine and badger fur. This is 'Shed Bodge'. Not 'Trailside Bodge' 😉

needs moar jubilee clips

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Hmmmm that could be the Hemlock off my shortlist.

that would be a shame – there was an iffy batch, it's all sorted now. andits proper 'gulliver'.

awesome bike, i can't say enough good things about the handling / quality / character.

if you do have one of the few iffy ones, and it goes, you can fix it with an inner tube – show me that with a cracked commencal…

I bet it jams at some point.

i've fixed a snapped handlebar by sticking a stick through it (bit unsafe) and clamping over the crack, and managed to put a snapped chain back together with 2 rocks (that link reportedly held for the rest of the life of the chain) cos we didn't have a chain tool with us..

JonR – Member

Hmmmm that could be the Hemlock off my shortlist.

Don't worry. That was the old 2009 chainstay. 2010 version has much burlyness.

show me that with a cracked commencal…

you wouldnt because it wouldnt be needed – from what I saw (alot) the vast majority of cracks never developed past a hairline weld fracture, they where largely still okay to ride, and some still are being riden
And Commencal / Madison where more than reasonable with their waranty process, I know of several that where either out of warranty or abused and still got swopped (pics of a Meta 5 going off an 12' drop a few months before the owner found a hairline crack for example)

That is a lovely bodge – chapeau.

I once snapped a seat clamp – fixed it by jamming a stick into the frame and putting the seatpost on top of it.

Best though, I once snapped a light bracket in the middle of the countryside late at night. It being the countryside, I carried on (carefully) looking for baler twine on the side of the road. Within half a mile I'd found some and lashed the light back onto the bike 🙂

I've fashioned a makeshift bivvy from some barbed wire and a sheep carcass before now……

TM, nice bodge and also added a new word to the English vocabulary "rubbage".

A man of many talents. 😉

It being the countryside, I carried on (carefully) looking for baler twine on the side of the road.

Baler twine, you say? I'll see your 'side of the road' and raise you a 'field edge in the middle of nowhere':

What to do when your kevlar bead goes *ping* 25miles from home with no hope of rescue: Lash the tyre on with discarded baler twine at just the right amount of tension…

I tell you: GOD OF BODGE, me 😉

That's pretty decent.

A mate of mine once bled his brakes in the middle of a 24 hour race, using nothing but a 2" piece of camelbak hose and the fluid that was already in them…

Please, please, PLEASE don't encourage the man. He'll only go and bodge things at the slightest provocation for the smallest problette if you do 🙄 I'm the one who gets to hear about it at length on our rides too 😉

Fair do's though Chas, that is an ossum bodge, dude. Particularly like the attention to detail with the added araldite to gift it some body, nice touch. This is definitely more my style though:

*shakes head *

That's a reasonably well engineered solution, NOT a bodge at all!

Good work that, I've made something similar on my commuter, but it attaches to the seattube bottle bosses instead of clamping round the tube.

Also made a 1×9 guide for my boingy bike, but that was machined from nylon and a lot closer to a proper job!

On a ride in Nant y Arin a couple of years ago one of the lads came off his stumpy and the front tyre ripped open, due to complete lack of new tyres he was up and running – once his head cleared from hitting the ground – witha tyre held onto the rim with elastoplast and cable ties no less.

The thing lasted for the remainder of the ride too 😀

Shuddup, fatty singlecrack. At least I don't pinch-flat on Mendipian descents 😆

Ya gotta Ride light: like a panther.

(and, yes, a week on and the Bodge is still working perfectly 😉 )

That's a reasonably well engineered solution, NOT a bodge at all!

true: not bodge.

I rode (slowly) for 4 miles on a tyre stuffed full of foliage once.
My cap is duly dothed to the above bodge.

That's a reasonably well engineered solution, NOT a bodge at all!

good point i agree.

In sillyarsetrackworld that problem is already covered by a titanium bashring and a Pauls bit of plastic and aluminium, total price £70.

My best bodge was on a bike – but one with an engine.

Crashed my BMW 1100GS in the Himalayas and punched a hole in the aluminium cylinder heads. BMW spares were not an option.

Perceived wisdom was to mix some araldite with cotton wool, pack the hole and let it set. Luckily the german guy I was with had some 2 part glue but we couldn't locate any cotton wool.

My GF had gone home (due to a paragliding accident) but rooting around in my stuff I found a tampon. Opened it up, mixed the glue in and slapped it on.

Hey Presto! Still holding 3 yrs later. Got another head cover but never fitted it.

The true gods of bodge live in small villages in India and Africa.

Or for that matter remote communities in Oz – anyone seen "Bush Mechanics"?

We can only dream of reaching their levels of ingenuity 🙂