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When you spy a random ball bearing on the garage floor and and don't know which of the 4 cup and cone wheels you recently serviced it came out of..
When you look at your new Ducati and have a coolant leak.
yep looking down and realising you have cup and cone hubs, hit's me every time
[i]When you spy a random ball bearing on the garage floor and [s]and don't know which of the 4 cup and cone wheels you recently serviced it came out of..[/s] wonder who's nicked the freezer [/i]
ftfy
Yup,men's health can be time consuming,but better safe than sorry .
When you snub your toe on a protrusion only to realise it's now pissing blood...
Being 20 mins into a journey to your ride destination only to remember that you left the front through axel on top of the workbench in the garage.
When you catch your scrotum in your zipper as your wet grundies are in your bag after wearing them only for an impromptu dip in a river.
this has been mine today
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/superstar-10mm-qr-wont-fit-in-dropouts
realisation i probably won't be riding my new bike soon
When you drive 10 minutes to go for a sub-zero night ride, spend 10 minutes getting kitted up with lights etc and then finally realise you've brought 2 left gloves.....
[i]When you drive 10 minutes[/i]
ride from home next time 🙂
A mate of mine turned up for a ride - having left his front axel at home. Another brought what he thought were his SPD shoes, they were in fact his wife's SPD shoes 🙂
When you drive 10 minutesride from home next time
Fair point! 🙂
When you commit to a super booter/road gap and realise you're on the wrong bike 😯
When tightening up a bolt and you suddenly feel the resistance tail off as you strip the thread.
When you cut the carbon steerer on your forks with the headset preload in place.. just got away with it!
When you put the tire lever through the new tube just fitting to your road bike. 😥
When you pump the bike through a compression and your right shoulder dislocates and it turns out you weren't quite as far through rehab as you'd hoped 🙁
When that tubeless tire finally pops on after 40 minutes of wrestling and pumping, and realize it the rear tire is now on the front rim with the rotation arrow pointing the wrong way.
When you dig your lawn to turn it into a border and find a patio underneath, followed by looking on Google Earth and realising where your new pond is going also will have a patio under the grass.
When you dump clean up washings overboard only to realise you have just thrown the quick release block mechanism on the lifeboat davit that you were cleaning into the bloody Indian Ocean.
When that tubeless tire finally pops on after 40 minutes of wrestling and pumping, and realize it the rear tire is now on the front rim with the rotation arrow pointing the wrong way.
Genuine LOL 🙂 ,well done sir
Driving 40 minutes for a night ride then discovering you've left the batteries for your lights on the worktop in the kitchen
have to admit dday that made me laugh..
When you wake up Monday morning.
Driving from the South coast to Nant Yr Arian and finding your front axle is safely at home on the garage floor....
When you turn up for a night ride after work, get dressed, get the bike out the car, connect lights and then go to put on gloves only to realise that they are still at home. A 2 hour night ride at 0 degrees or pack it all up and go home.
When you slip and stick a knife through the sidewall of a new tyre you just put on the bike.
this was many yrs ago, but a cracker. Drove 20 mins or so to pick up a mate and then another hr to a planned long, big sky loop. He put his bike on roof beside mine and I put his kit bag in boot. Arrived later at said ride start point, unloaded, and discovered that he had been fettling bike and had removed and replaced cranks....but at 90 degrees rather than 180....not a lot we could do with a multitool 😈
[b]rocketman[/b]
When you commit to a super booter/road gap and realise you're on the wrong bike
Yep, last week!
[b]griffiths1000[/b]
When you put the tire lever through the new tube just fitting to your road bike.
About 50% of the time.
[b]milko9000[/b]
When you pump the bike through a compression and your right shoulder dislocates and it turns out you weren't quite as far through rehab as you'd hoped
Happened for about 3 months, also when in the shower or getting something high up in the kitchen or supermarket.
Had 'that' feeling this morning when I had to phone in sick at 4am. 3 weeks off getting the "12 months without sickness" £100 bonus 👿
When you've just let one of these slip out of your hand in the company canteen...
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It was surprisingly loud...
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[i]in the company canteen[/i]
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I'm high class don't you know...
When the inner race only knocks out of a stuck bearing you're trying to get out a frame leaving only the outer race and no direct access to the back of it...
arriving at the high street paying for all day parking and then relasiing your bike has no chain
next time my rear mech snapped about half way up
When you open your wallet and realise the cashback you should've taken from the 'Notes out' slot at the self service checkout is not there.
Eliot the uplift driver at Inners told me a cracker a few weeks ago...
A bunch of guys drove up from Manchester to Inners for the uplift. When they got there they discovered they had left the keys for the bike racks back in Manchester. They asked Elliot for help and he suggested they go to a local farm and see if the farmer could cut the racks and get the bikes free. They headed off to the farm then reappeared an hour or so after with the bikes free. They went to sign on to the uplift...and discovered they'd actually booked on for Ae rather than Inners...and Inners was full 😆
vermillion - MemberWhen you open your wallet and realise the cashback you should've taken from the 'Notes out' slot at the self service checkout is not there.
Yup, done that one too.. luckily it was only £10 and was in ASDA so someone poor got the money who needed it more than me 🙂
That awful realisation....
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Non organic? Can you imagine?
I too spent forty minute trying to forcibly persuade a tubeless tyre onto a rim, followed by several more minutes attempting to inflate said tyre whil;e screaming "stay blown up you ****!" at it...
...only to discover that the bloody directional bloody arrows were pointing the wrong bloody way.
I actually contemplated rebuilding the wheel to fix it.
Gettin your all shiney shiney new box fresh full susser built and ready to go, taking it for a shakedown up and down the street, checking brakes, shifting, errr, brakes, shifting,...riding position n that(?). Then deciding as a test to show it some RDNEZZ SKLZ and endo on to a step...only to land on the rear mech. Then admtting to this on a public forum.
vermillion - Member
When you open your wallet and realise the cashback you should've taken from the 'Notes out' slot at the self service checkout is not there.
Yup, done that one too.. luckily it was only £10 and was in ASDA so someone poor got the money who needed it more than me
It's definitely a flawed system,apparently,there's a drawer full of unclaimed money in our local Asda
Only 30 minute drive away but felt a million miles, left my seatpost leant up against my bay window.
iainc
removed and replaced cranks....but at 90 degrees rather than 180
Haha, done that too while hurriedly putting my bike back together for a two hour commute. Didn't notice until I set off 🙂