[Closed] Lamest mechanical?

Had a caliper bolt fall out yesterday. But yours is pretty lame.

Last week I spent a concerned 2 minutes examining my rear hub because there was play in the wheel. Turns out i didn't tighten the QR release properly.

Riding buddy, decided to WD40 his disc brakes as 'they looked a little bit rusty' then got a bit annoyed when is bike would not stop!

Spent a good few minutes trying to fit a wheel into my Pikes on the Heckler getting annoyed, turns out I had picked the wheel for the other bike.

forgoten to tighten front wheel and tryed to do a drop 😳 8)

I siezed a rear hub once - resulting in a crash (nothing serious), total bolloxing of the hub (new wheel required) and walk of a mile or two back to the car.

The lame-ness of it comes from the fact that I'd just replaced the axle, with a fairly wooly grasp of how hubs work. I don't know what I did wrong, but evidently something pretty fundamental. It was absolutely fine for about 10 miles, then disaster.

Didn't tighten front QR, wheel fell off, rigid fork bent, I land on chin. 🙁

20 odd years ago, was riding my 10sp 'racer' somewhere and was getting really irritated by a regular 'tink, tink, tink' coming from the back end of the bike.

Stopped a couple of times to sort but the bike didn't make any noise at all without my weight on it.

Worked out in the end that it was one of the buttons from my coat just hitting the rear rim - the coat was tied around my waist and hanging down in a position to drag me into the rear wheel.

No mechanical, just stupidity.

I had a mate (not a cyclist) who was telling me he had this problem on his bike, a clicking noise. He said hed been to a bike shop and they couldnt figure out what it was (unbelievable).

I went out to look at his bike, and immediatly bent down, and moved the rear reflector which was attached to the seat stay, away from the spokes.

Solved.

There was a chap on alt.mountain-bike who posted up a question about a intermittant clicking when he was pedalling. He went through loads of troubleshooting with advice from the guys on there. He took the cranks off, took the BB out, greased it all, put everything back, tried different pedals, checked his seatpost and all sorts of things. This went on for a week or so.

Eventually, one guy made a suggestion and the problem was solved. His shoes were standard laced with no velcro straps to hold them down, the laces were hitting the cranks as he was pedalling.

Was working in a bike shop a few years ago.Spent weeks doings the boring taking bikes out of boxes and putting on wheels checking brakes.Finally I got to do something proper in the workshop.Change a bottom bracket, easy peesy.Don't that loads.Did it quickly as I could, head mechanic takes a look and his face turns to a look of horror.Both crank arms were facing the same way.Very embarrassing.

I cleaned and fitted a new front wheel hub but couldn't see how there was sooooo much play in the wheel? It wobbled so much I had to coast home. Fast forwards about two hours after dismantling, cleaning and dismantling I found I put 10 ball bearings in one side and 11 in the other.
Wally 😳

Once bled my brakes using the Hope bleed kit. When it stated to use a tyre at 20 psi I looked at my 45psi tyre and thought "more air just means I can do it for longer if need be"

[b][u]WRONG![/u][/b]

Fired all 4 pistons out of my caliper at a velocity approaching the speed of light closely followed by seemingly gallons of brake fluid spraying everywhere around the living room.

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Gave up on that after all the kooks like Mike Vanderspamm and Nolan turned up. Is it still as bad?

Years ago I was riding very slowly up a steep trail near Troutbeck when my bike started making a loud but irregular creaking noises. Couldn't figure out where it was coming from and didn't seem to matter if I was pedalling, stood up etc so I stopped to have a closer look...

and the noise continued - looked around and a crow was following me by hopping along the dry stone wall making the "creaking" noise. I felt like a right arse!

I won a mint sauce "mug of the month" mug for this when I wrote in to MBUK (pre email/web days!) but never actually received it...