I strip my bikes annually and I can never remember which way to undo the pedals and the Shimano external BB cups.
I also forget that I can't adjust the Fulcrum rear hub bearings, which has had play in it from new, but it doesn't stop me trying. Every ****ing year!
The other day I was putting a new tire on my wife's bike, I seated the tire manually and I was just injecting the sealant through the valve but forgot to check that the tire bead was seated all the way around and not caught on the back end of the valve.... To say I squirted 60 mL of sealant straight down my leg and not into the tire
Is that you badger?
I have alo tried to stop a wheel spinning by grabbing the rotor.
Related to that, a mechanic in a shop I worked in was checking out chain tension on a fixie by pulling on the chain with a finger. Then he absentmindedly spun the rear wheel backwards while his finger was resting on the chain...
Anyway once the screams had subsided, we found the amputated tip of his finger, packed it in ice and they sewed it back on at the hospital.
The workshop floor had a little red patch of blood on it for a surprisingly long time where it had soaked into the laminate.
Isn’t Northwind’s excuse that he was building up the bike so it wasn’t maintenance per se?
My 2: replaced the fuel tank on my Triumph Spitfire and swapped over the sender unit from the old one. It’s halfway up the tank, I put a few litres from a can to get it to the petrol station. It held about 35 litres-waiting for the pump to click off for ages and I’d dispensed c50 litres. Yep I hadn’t tightened it fully and had a boot full of fuel and it was starting to seep out of seems and rust holes.
No2- put a grab rail on the decking so that my son could walk down the steps unaided. Forgot about the cable going up the centre of the deck post- cue one light out of action.
Went to reseat a tubeless tyre for the first time in my life. Everything ready went to change my fancy new pump to the correct valve , out falls a spring straight down a hole in my lock up floor.
Pump stuffed and me pissed off mightily
5 year old son’s first ride at Decoy BMX track on his new MTB, he did one lap and they said his brakes didn’t work? Pulled the lever to the bar! Fugitive! I must have bled it wrong. Turns out I’d left the split pin out of the rear brakes when I set them up. Bit of a panic as I had no spares that even so I ended up nicking the ones from the front and telling him not to use it. Bugger!
