anyone else taken something apart on the bike and found something that shouldn't have been fitted/fitted the wrong way round and been happily been riding along for ahem..years?
just me? Bottom bracket spacers and headset missing a conical washer are my most recent finds..
Im learning, don't look at me like that.
For a year a ran my left brake inside my shifter and the right outside. I think I must have put them that way to see which I preferred and just forgot about it, as soon as I fixed it my riding improved.
Disc brake hose wrong way round of fork leg. Couldn't be arsed to change it
Hope Tech3 levers looked great but didn't really feel goos. I tweaked settings for a month and was a little bit disappointed.
I told a mate who reversed totally what I'd done on bite point and reach and they suddenly where the best brakes EVA! That's just two little screws incorrectly adjusted by an idiot.
Disc brake hose wrong way round of fork leg. Couldn't be arsed to change it
God, I hate people that do this. Outside of the fork leg is just awful.
The thread calls for cock-ups that you didn't know about, not for ones that you decided to ignore.
Disc brake hose wrong way round of fork leg. Couldn't be arsed to change it
A friend had this from a bike that had been "prepared by one of our expert technicians" including loose shock bolts and a host of other stuff I sorted out for him on the day it arrived from a crap but very cheap discount bikeshop, who delayed delivery so that the bike could be prepared by the aforementioned, wrongly titled, employee...
Outside of the fork leg is just awful.
I've seen people write that before but some caliper / arch combinations lend themselves better to outside routing. I do hold my hand up to one set up that I have at the moment which should very obviously be routed inside the fork leg. No idea why a stuck it outside as it looks daft now that I've noticed it but I really cba to sort it.
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Disc brake hose wrong way round of fork leg. Couldn't be arsed to change it
BURN HIM
The thread calls for cock-ups that you didn't know about, not for ones that you decided to ignore.
yep. im a better home mechanic now for discovering these things, but its embarrassing. particularly when you think you know what you're doing.
The thread calls for cock-ups that you didn't know about, not for ones that you decided to ignore
I didn't see it , a friend pointed it out. I then ignored it . Now I'm confused
I've seen people write that before but some caliper / arch combinations lend themselves better to outside routing.
I'd have to buy new forks.
(surely no combination is better like this? Why would anyone design a fork this way?)
A friend was riding for ages with his left grip on the right side of the bars and vice versa. What a chump.
Put my Manitou forks on backwards. Rode with them for two years until I got some Pikes and realised they'd been the wrong way around all that time.
Had my bike serviced by LBS as I didn't have time to do it.
They mis-routed the cable to the front derailleur. Apparently (I have since been told) this make the shifting much stiffer.
I haven't noticed, nor have I bothered to change it.