Swapping pedals in the alps to give clipless a go then realising I brought the wrong pedals (i.e. some broken eggbeaters not the new ones) so put the flats back on. Following day the poorly tightened flat pedal ripped the thread out of my carbon cranks.
After the left hand Hollowtech XT crank fell off mid-ride, I've learned it's best to check the bb shell width when swapping frames...ouchy!
Cut a new chain for myself for the first time, with bike standing on the floor (making it harder see what was going on with the lower bit of chain), only to discover the chain was not wrapped properly around the bottom bit of the largest sprocket when I decided which link to cut and was actually two links too short!
Fortunately, my botched cut was the correct length for a new 11-30 cassette, but it meant the original 11-34 was technically unsafe to use until recently (in case I very unusually selected 38/34 and ended up with a ripped off rear derailleur destroying the rear wheel spokes etc.) when I replaced the 38T chainring with a 34T Ringmaster.
Cutting the inner cable too short.... how many times.
Forgot to reset the torque wrench when tightening up a seat clamp bolt. It was in my old flat and was fixing bike on the landing. The bolt sheared off and rocketed shot out like a bullet. I say 'like a bullet' as I didn't actually see it. All I saw and heard was the smashing of the big mirror we had on the landing.....
Fitting a BB with the bike upside down, and especially when fitting the NDS plastic cup first...
Things that were learned that afternoon
1. NDS Plastic cups cross thread so easily you don't even notice that you've put it the DS when using a large adjustable wrench on the BB tool
2. That DS metal cups will cross thread the BB shell not the BB
3. BBs have no understanding of the emotional value of the frame they are about to damage
Fortunately, I only stuffed the first two/three "threads" so friendly bike shop with BB thread cutter were able to clean them out and fit the BB properly.
Threading the chain round the outside of the little tab on a rear mech, spent ages trying to work out what the funny noise was.
Removing the disc, cable tied to spokes to avoid bending the disc on a flight......
By cutting the spokes, not the cable ties.....
Threading the chain round the outside of the little tab on a rear mech
I would have listed that earlier, but this thread is for mistakes you only make [i][b]once[/b][/i].
I dont use needle nose pliers to pull tight zipties anymore after attempting to use them to tighten up a ziptie on the headtube on my hardtail...pliers didn't stay gripped to ziptie for long and their trajectory after release was down the back of one stanchion on some very new forks 😳
Threading the chain round the outside of the little tab on a rear mech
Anything else on bike - no problem, but this always has me thinking for ages and still get it wrong!
Not just me with a bad BB/thread stripping incident then 😀
fitting new bombers, drunk, cutting the steerer tube very diagonally, fortunately there was enough left to straighten up.
never drink when working on bike
Overtightening titanium bolts in a carbon stem. Just don't. It was a bugger to drill out the remainder from the other side. I mean titanium bolts. Come on! Why? And it was using a Ritchey torque drive. And it was 90 minutes before a road race. And I was lending the bike to a club mate. He rode that race with a stem 20cm to short on a bike too small!
Have a clear out of the spares boxes in the shed, think " I don't need two spare pairs of cheap flats" one pair in the bike charity box
6 months later, go to spares box to use those flats and find myself looking at two left side pedals. Bugger.
Managed to get the whole drivetrain on the non-drive side on my fixie once. Completely didn't notice, took ages to work out why I couldn't clip into the pedals 🙂
I've just come in after a long time trying to fine tune my new rear mech shifting... Was almost at the point of re stripping the cables and running them again add I was only ever getting (badly) 9 out of the 10 gears....
.. Maybe it's because Shimano designed the mech for, erm, 11 gears....
DrP
