Hacks / Bodges

Look at that wheelbase!

NPF.

Hosepipe d lock

amazing. need to do this with my beefy lock since i scraped all the rubber off it.

Move over Duchamp.

Truing stand for those with too many chairs and forks in their homes.

Edit; looking for dial indicator to bodge into the build

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The lack of symmetry is annoying me. Cut some slots in the back so the wheel will fit through. Then mount your dti up there.

That chair now looks sinister without the truing stand attached.

Picture of the zebra with a tree protruding from its arse isnt helping

Sweet. How would the dial fit on? I've got a spare fork and might try to build one of these too.

@Jonny69 but then the chair would have a cut down the back rest and would no longer be useful as a chair ... which it is ~99.9% of the time.

@frankenbike need to make a bracket for the dial (fixing at brake hole, using something similar to:

@sumo either the tiniest poo hole or splintery glory hole. Haven't decided yet.

I didn't liked my handlebar roll hanging down and dangling around so I made a support from a £2 Leylands steel rod. Inspired by Nittos F16 handlebar bag support. No tools needed just the rod and something to bend it around. In my case the staircase railing worked fine. Later I used some isolation tape to prevent scratches and noise. Worked very well on a 5 day trip.

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Good work

Should have used a coat hanger.

Nice! Need to try this, thanks for sharing :)

Hi!

How did you attached the bottle cages on your fork? I was thinking to do the same on mine.
Thanks!

Looks like a bolt between the midblade eyelet and lower hole on the bottle cage then zip-ties for the top hole on the cage, if I had to guess.

@Colonel_of_Truth is on point.

Re Handlebar Support: For the next tour I am going to use some elastic straps against the head tube to keep the support in place. It was sometimes jumping a bit on bumpy trails.

The rubber button on my light was useless, and kept falling out- cheaply made to poor tolerances. Obviously it wasn't super waterproof either, so spent litteraly 5 minutes making a new one from a boxwood offcuts. Sealed around the edges with sikaflex. Works perfectly and can't fall out.

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Also glued the sole back together on a shoe, using polyurethane wood glue. I tried it with proper shoemaker's glue a while ago, but it never seemed very solid, and failed again recently. The pu glue seems rock solid though. Very satisfying bodge.

These past two posts were just yesterday's work. My life is a continuous stream of bdodges, but I never realised we had a bodge thread! I'll try to dig out some of the best ones...

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that phone looks tough as nails

‘Functional phones: Not porn, not anti’ thread >>>>

Yeh can we have a project thread for that phone?

+1 at least give us a quick review

It's served me very well, but has recently been replaced by my first ever smart phone. It was super reliable- waterproof, drop-proof and idiot proof. The battery still holds a charge for over a week. Nice patina too. Might be worth something to a collector: the type that buys a beaten up old bike, entirely impractical compared to the modern equivalent...

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awesome