Turning Bike Upside Down to Fix Punctures?

Upside down to remove, right way up to replace – just to be different…..

The only reason i wouldn’t do mine upside down is due to the fork lockout on the bars (its only plastic), and air can work its way into the callipers, and i don’t want to scuff my seat.

Is there another way than upside down? 😯

Unless of course your upper body is so under- developed that you have to wait for someone else to come along and help.

Hopefully not, because at least two people have said they refuse to help friends unless they turn their bike upside down. It seems that’s the snobbery…

Gravity works both ways you know, if you put the bike onto the wheel it’ll fall into place, and be in straight. It’s definitely not roadie bullshit, tis quicker and some find it easier, you presumably are not one of these people

Yes, but you have to hold the bloody bike and hold the wheel at the same time! With the bike upside down the bike stays put and all you have to do is guide the wheel into the dropouts! One moving thing rather than two!

I cannot believe I am debating over something that is pure logic. 😕

Obviously there are a few things to remember when you have fixed your puncture.

maybe this has been answered, can’t be bothered reading six pages, but what do you do with it once you have the wheel off if you’ve not flipped it? surely you don’t lay it on the ground some other way, think of the damage! bent rear mechs, scratched chainstays 😯

see, she’s cleverly rotated the bars so that the grips aren’t touching the floor

Gravity works both ways you know

No it definitely always goes down.

It must take me all of half a second to flip my bike. I can’t see how 1 second is going to hurt when I am mincing around Cannock Chase and it takes me about 3-5 mins to repair a puncture.

Oh noooo, iv found some scratches on my brakes from performing this act!
Never fear, I know some where I can sell them.

Generic pics to follow 😉

I’ve worked in bike shops and we also never turned the bikes upside down to work on them, BECAUSE WE HAD A **** BIKE STAND.

If you don’t turn your bike upside down it’s because you are a ****. How is that for sweeping generalisations, about as accurate as the cyclist vs people that ride bikes comment. Furthermore the shite about mechanical sympathy, I hate it when people use the wrong tool or something touches a stanchion etc. but moddy coddling your bike and being scared of scratching a lever is a completely different kettle of fish.

Give humans two choices, and they will argue for an eternity about which is the right one.

Next week – which side of the path do you cycle on?
Week after – Right or left for front brake lever?
Week three – ball or aerosol?

nikk – Member
Give humans two choices

Fascinating, but we’re all arguebots
*taps screen*
are you … a … person ?

arguebots

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do

I’m half crazy, all for the love of you

It won’t be a stylish marriage,

I can’t afford a carriage

But you’ll look sweet, upon the seat

Of a bicycle built for two*

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* as long as you don’t turn it upside down to fix punctures

Dave?

Look druidh, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

😯 Seven pages? Seven? Dear God…

Seven pages is one thing.

Seven pages in nine hours? Dear oh dear.

pfffft…. imagine getting off to fix something, bunch of poofs.
but there again,there’s the simple amazement to be had by flipping over and making it go as fast as you can without hurting someone (dont even kid on you’ve never done it)

this has to be the most desperately depressing thread I’ve ever read on here.

Get. A. Life.

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:

Get. A. Life.

Initiate bike stands up on its own device – Flip

Personally – I find that on the current bike (2001 FSR running an SLX rear mech) it’s easier to locate the wheel upside down, right the bike, back off the skewer so that the hub locates properly in the dropout, then tighten.

Although I’m more than happy if people put the wheel in with the bike the other way up so they don’t scratch anything – more aesthetically pleasing second-hand parts… 😆

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:

+1 it’s embarrassing… 😕 Wgaf…

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,

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!