[Closed] Turning Bike Upside Down to Fix Punctures?

7 pages? (hope this waste of effort takes it to 8!)

I shall develop a gadget to prevent scratches while the bike is upside down

I think its called 'grass' teej

This in an exciting example of just how low this forum has stooped. I am actually astounded that people care even remotely enough to argu about it. As above:

No need TJ. It's They've already been invented and are called mountain bike gloves. They are nearly always multipurpose and can fit over grips or under bars perfectly whilst leaving hands free from gloves for maintenance.
I don't know why gloves don't seem to state this on their instructions.

Those complaining about the number of posts need to (a) actually read the thread to see the humour and (b) remember that the front page polls are designed to solicit discussion and therefore increase the page hit rate 🙂

Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seven pages... STW @@@@wits all over... 🙂

If you turn your bike upside down to do trailside repairs, how on earth would anyone passing be able to read your name and country flag on the top tube without too much neck twisting?

😉

Regardless of which way up the bike is I think we can all agree that the proper location for the bike is at 90 degrees to the direction that other trail users will be travelling and across the narrowest point for 200 yards in either direction.

I find that on the current bike (2001 FSR running an SLX rear mech) it's easier to locate the wheel upside down,

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Where's the wheel? I can't find it anywhere. Ctrl + Alt + down - ah, there it is.

This in an exciting example of just how low this forum has stooped

Glass houses. Comments like that nearly always lead me to look at the 'threads started' by a person.

😥

Glass houses. Comments like that nearly always lead me to look at the 'threads started' by a person.

Glass houses indeed - not seeing much inspiring in yours 🙄

I always turn my bike upside down to fit new cranks using a rock.

I don't fix punctures on the trail, I simply manual or endo all the way home.

RealMan - Member

I find that on the current bike (2001 FSR running an SLX rear mech) it's easier to locate the wheel upside down,

Where's the wheel? I can't find it anywhere. Ctrl + Alt + down - ah, there it is.

That's not my bike, though it is similar... 😆

Aah, I had a 2001 S-Works FSR like that one up there. The Horst pivot did protrude quite a lot on the inside of the chainstay, but it was still far easier with the bike the right way up!

not seeing much inspiring in yours

But I'm not throwing stones.

Top thread!

Scratched lock on collars would annoy me though!

Your worst nightmare 🙂

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Always turn mine upside down - sometimes even when I haven't got a puncture, just seems to happen!

Didn't expect this thread to still be going when I got in from work. Any mention of Page 88 of Issue 73 yet?

yes

oh dear. There's a picture of me in the latest mag with my bike upside down IN AN ABRASIVE QUARRY while I fix a puncture.

like I give a shite. FFS

Cars are so much easier to work on upside down admitedly not changing wheels.

err... wow. shocking. etc.

How else would u play the drumkit?

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**has brain haemorrhage**

**steals njee13's bike and turns it upside down whilst he's bleeding from the ears**

Bump .............. Lol

Turning bikes upside is turning up everywhere, other threads, in the newspapers...
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Clearly not enough people have read Flann O Brien's excellent novel regarding cycling matters "The Third Policeman".
If as proposed in the book, cycling on bumpy roads leads to a mixing the atoms of yourself and your bike, then turning your bike upside down would be rather like standing half of yourself on your head to effect repairs.
You wouldn't do that would you?

I once had to resort to turning my motorbike upside down to get the rear wheel in. To be fair I had been riding through the night and it was about 5 in the morning. For anyone familiar with the Husaberg's frame design, I did a good impression of one of the Red Arrows for the next 20 minutes, after I'd rebuilt the carb......

Bicycle goes upside down as and when required. Has to be on grass though.

I turn bikes upside down for a variety of maintenance tasks, have been doing so for about 40 years, and have never damaged anything because I only this this on soft ground, or some cardboard if I'm in the garage.

I'll paraphrase Sheldon by saying this is based on my personal and professional experience and my own theories. If you disagree with them, I won't call you an uneducated-**** or a moron, and I trust you will extend me the same courtesy.