When a bit of bike maintenance goes exactly to plan and takes about the amount of time that I thought it would.
Dropper post cable replaced in about ten minutes. #humblebrag.
Dropper post cable replaced
But not used?
It'll explode first time out on the trails obvs 😉
The cable retaining grub screw did manage to rattle out a few days ago.
I replaced a radiator fan assembly and seized-on coolant cap on my daughter's car yesterday without any problems - just waiting for the inevitable call from a roadside one day soon
I once rebuilt an old bike after having the frame powder coated, everything fitted perfectly first time. Took me an hour less than I thought it would so went out for a cheeky evening ride to celebrate. The stem decided it didn't like holding onto the steerer tube quite well enough as I hit the first technical bit out of the car park at Cwmcarn and pitched me off into the undergrowth.
Once put a new radiator, water pump and new hoses on my old AX after it had miraculously passed the MOT with flying colours. Took me about 2 hours which felt far too easy! Three days later the head gasket decided it didn't like the new, fresh coolant and shat itself.
Was replacing an outside tap at my parent's house and it went really well. Right until I went to turn the stop cock back on where the 100+ year old brass decided it would snap clean off. It controlled the water to two houses so had to get an emergency call-out (thankfully free!) but the street really wasn't happy with jackhammers and diggers going at it from 10pm to 2am!
I'm VERY suspicious of jobs that go just that little bit too well nowadays.
Never happens.
My wife has a sliding scale for what I predict:
"10 minute job" - minimum 1 hour in the garage
"About an hour" - back in for the next meal, probably
"All morning/afternoon" - /day
"Quite a big job" - he's going to need my car to go a buy something extra later; might see him again late Sunday
She's very accurate; so far we've been together about 30 years and I'm still optimistic about timing 🙂
Ha ha, glad it isn’t just me then.
😀 I planned a big job on the house, got all the tools and materials i needed, set out everything, planned for a couple of contingencies. Boom, took me an hour, start to finish. Was expecting two half days.
That fix has lasted over a decade, but now a few more bits have started failing, so i'm going to do another few patch repairs. I reckon that'll take me 4 days, and i'll need to redo it in september.
Well I spent several hours trying to free an Eagle cassette from an XD-drive freehub yesterday. Eventually got it free with 3 people, a 3ft breaker bar, a now twisted chain-whip, and an adjustable spanner so large that it looks like it should belong to the Incredible Hulk, so balance is restored to the universe.
Just took the new bike out for a shakedown ride and everything worked absolutely perfectly. I'll change the fork spring I think but other'n that literally not a tweak needed.
I'd be paranoid about that, except I've balanced it out by having a car in bits for a year. Quick engine swap, get it back on the road in a couple of weekends.