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It took me a moment to work out what was wrong with this bike


 
Posted : 30/10/2021 10:37 pm
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I hope he made a better job of restoring the brakes !


 
Posted : 30/10/2021 10:42 pm
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if it works why not 😳


 
Posted : 30/10/2021 10:43 pm
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I didn't spot that there were more pictures!


 
Posted : 30/10/2021 10:47 pm
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“ restored brakes suspension and derailleur
better than the day i got it”

Doubt that..


 
Posted : 30/10/2021 10:51 pm
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I think his definition of "restored" is a little different to mine. Every one of those systems has been messed up, in some cases in more than one way.


 
Posted : 30/10/2021 10:55 pm
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At least he only got half of the forks back to front.....


 
Posted : 30/10/2021 10:58 pm
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Is he thinking of opening a bike shop?


 
Posted : 30/10/2021 10:59 pm
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RD naughty


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 12:05 am
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Depends how bad it was when he got it I suppose.


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 12:43 am
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Fork crown is the wrong way around.


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 12:56 am
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Kudos to him for doing the “forks on backwards” thing in a completely new way.


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 8:29 am
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so presume he's taken the forks off the bike, stripped them, and put the lowers back on back to front? How else could he he have managed it? Christ alone knows what he did to them while he had them apart.


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 9:00 am
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Kudos to him for doing the “forks on backwards” thing in a completely new way

It's not completely new. I... ummmm.... know someone who fitted the lowers backwards once. However, it's pretty obvious that there's something wrong pretty quickly.


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 10:07 am
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Kudos to him for doing the “forks on backwards” thing in a completely new way

Didn’t pinkbike do it for the grim donut, as a way of reducing fork offset even further?


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 10:13 am
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A nice picture of a frayed brake cable as well. Utter death trap.


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 10:20 am
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so presume he’s taken the forks off the bike, stripped them, and put the lowers back on back to front?

I...er....know someone who did that, once. Cough


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 10:27 am
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Is he thinking of opening a bike shop?


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 6:56 pm
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Rebuilding the forks but backwards is inspired.


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 9:17 pm
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I know Halfords mechanics get a bad rap, but, come on...


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 10:14 pm
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I…er….know someone who did that, once. Cough

Turns out I also....err....know someone who did that too. Maybe it's the same individual..


 
Posted : 31/10/2021 10:23 pm
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Maybe somebody on Facebook could message him and point out that things are usually done differently? It’s just possible he could sell that bike to a novice who doesn’t know any better and muight not realise how dangerous it is.


 
Posted : 01/11/2021 1:49 pm