What have you done because you had no choice, something you would normally never do.
Mine is
My shimano brakes were needing a bleed, at this point I should point out in in Zambia at the moment.
No chance of getting any approved/correct fluid.
Enter google
Johnson and Johnson baby oil.
Rear brake now smells nice and works a treat.
Roast and post your turn to confess.
Pressing in a headset with a rusty bit of threaded bar and any other bits and pieces I could find to make it fit.
I know someone who ran washing up liquid in hers to save loosing a weekends riding... 👍
Johnson and Johnson baby oil.
Amateur, HS33's could supposedly run on water or beer in a pinch. Good going though, mineral oil is mineral oil.
Smashing the star fangled nut out of the bottom of one pair of forks to put into a replacement pair with a gazebo pole.
Took a surprising amount of effort!
Hmmm i’ve lubed chain wiv pure virgin oil 🙂
Was that or margarine.
I suppose it’s just a matter or flushing them when you get some shim or what is it LHM.
I should like to see a picture of biking in Zambia.
What have you done because you had no choice, something you would normally never do.
After much panicked searching, I once had to use a French public toilet which bore a striking resemblance to the one in Trainspotting. Although, full disclosure, it was even worse when I left it. God that was a soul-destroying afternoon.
Similar to above. Tourist map of Bilbao was very useful.
I had to use a spinning washing line as a breaker bar to get a square taper bottom bracket out once. It had been in place for 15 years and had finally died.
That was after soaking it in wd40 for several days 😎
TheDTs
Pressing in a headset with a rusty bit of threaded bar and any other bits and pieces I could find to make it fit
Isn't that the usual way to do it?.....
TheDTs
Pressing in a headset with a rusty bit of threaded bar and any other bits and pieces I could find to make it fit
Isn’t that the usual way to do it?…..
Bit of wood and a hammer for the high tech approach isn't it?
Hmmm i’ve lubed chain wiv pure virgin oil 🙂
How hard do you have to squeeze a virgin to get oil out?
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After much panicked searching, I once had to use a French public toilet which bore a striking resemblance to the one in Trainspotting. Although, full disclosure, it was even worse when I left it. God that was a soul-destroying afternoon.
Similar, but instead of a toilet it was the gutter in the street in between two cars in Manali while my girlfriend fended off stray dogs with a stick.
Still, made for a good groom's speech story.
Garden hoe fitted on the end of a 12" adjustable spanner to get a 'freewheel' off - had an 8ft spanner.
What have you done because you had no choice
Went to work each day.
Last Sept a few of us managed to get away for a few days riding between lockdowns. First morning my brother jumps on bike and his reverb just goes floppy. Eventually discover that the circlip that holds it all together has rusted off and fallen out the bottom. Disaster. Well almost. The seatpost was more or less on its last legs through lack of servicing anyway so we just pushed it all back in and bent the ends of the tube in with some big grips and a hammer. It all worked fine after that and survived 3 days big mountain rides in the Lakes no problem.
I once had to use a French public toilet
Try travelling in rural China. Public toilets are basically the same as ****ing in the gutter.
I turned up for a group ride with some guys who hadn't been out for literally years. One of them had a chain and forks that were seized solid. Popped into a grocers and bought some cooking oil to get it all lubed up. Got it working ok, but he hasn't been out riding again since then.
Smashing the star fangled nut out of the bottom of one pair of forks to put into a replacement pair with a gazebo pole.
Took a surprising amount of effort!
It's possible to do this with an old broom handle, too.
... who am i kidding? No it isn't. It definitely isn't. I will never try that again.
Neither will i attempt to remove a stuck XD drive cassette with an angle grinder.
Rode on a shitty horrible day wearing a near brand new pair of office daps, because I left my 510s at home.
Rode in the Alps for a couple of days with, A badly sprained and swollen ankle, A shifter smashed to bits with loosely held to the bar with cable ties 2 broken ribs and a cracked sternum. My 'lack of choice' really only it was that, or spend a couple of miserable days stuck in the chalet whilst my mates enjoyed themselves and I figured I'd "heal when I get home".
Gone to Blackpool for a 2nd time, after vowing to NEVER do that again, because it was the stag do of a dear friend (yes, 'Blackpool Stag Do' three worst words in the English langue') I've decided it wouldn't matter if my Mum was getting married there and / or Rachel Riley was selling £10 notes for £5 with a free flash of her Boobs, I will never return for any kind of social event ever again, never. A hill I will die on.
Missed the last lift (by some margin) out of Switzerland so had to hike to the Mossettes pass above Morzine then night ride all the way back to town with a little pocket torch as my only light. About 1200m of descending
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