This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I still get sprayed in the face when tailing people with mudguards...go figure?! They just don't get that brown striped shitty arse.

flaps brah

Difference between full-size mudguards and inferior stuff like raceblades (which I now have) or cruds (good at protecting drivetrain and headset, bad at protecting the person behind you. which I used to have, concidentally)

Difference between full-size mudguards WITH long flaps and inferior stuff

ftfy

EEEK!!

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How did that happen??

had to emergency punch a van. got called a fucking cunt by neanderthal that thought over taking me heading towards a stopped bus at a junction with less space between me and the bus than the length of his van was a top notch idea at 6am. The wheel spin acceleration to thunking stall on trying to accelerate at me afterwards was a highlight.

Maybe it's time to re-read the camera thread, get anger management classes and and hope i get to chortle at at least one cycle training related comment...

I’m not really sure to be honest, definitely lack of attention to my bike mostly to blame. I assume it has a bit to do with the fact that the rubber washer I’m using under the spindle bolt isn’t an original part and actually slightly thinner than the rotor ones?

I was just riding along and it felt like I’d started to unclip so I tried to clip back in and then I had a crank arm dangling from my foot 😂 luckily this all happened on a cycle path and not on a road.

Weirdly not the first time it’s happened to me either but last time was because the previous crank’s thread stripped which sucked.

Huh. Still a bit weird that you wouldn't feel it starting to come off first... but hey at least you were clipped in so you didn't lose the crank arm! :D

Looked like something similar happened to someone turning from Tooley Street onto London Bridge this morning? He was riding along fine then all of a sudden he was on the floor. NDS crank on the floor about 6 feet away from where he hit the deck with the DS crank along with chainrings also detaching themselves. Was weird

Jesus 😳 hope they were okay!

That baffles me that both sides could come off at the same time, any time I’ve removed a DS crank arm it’s needed a mallet to get the spindle moving through the BB.

*Edit: unless it was square tapered I guess? But still how unlucky do you have to be for both crank arms to come loose at the same time?

Yeah it’s not as obvious as you’d think I guess!

Though my pedals are a bit fucked and have some play in them so that definitely will have masked the feeling a bit, I’ve Checked the play in those by hand recently though and didn’t notice any play in the cranks at the time so this must’ve come undone pretty quickly.

How did that happen??

Too Much Awesome Power™.

I know, whenever I've had to take both sides off for any reason its involved scraped knuckles and may swears. Was almost jealous of him!

From my experience, that’s pretty common on Rotor cranks. Thread lock helps.

I would say check it regularly, like when you clean the bike, but by the looks of it that’s rare.

Think once the NDS falls off on these newfangled two piece cransets, there’s fuckall holding the DS / spindle into the cups. So, not a square tapered crankset is more likely.

by the looks of it that’s rare.

Ooo you bitch! It rains a lot in Manchester and I spend half my commute riding through leaf mulch okay! Buying mudguards soon and i’ll give it a clean it then until then I’m fighting a losing battle.

From my experience, that’s pretty common on Rotor cranks.

🤔 hmm you never told me this when I purchased them from you.

There’s quite a lot of friction IME? And what forces are you putting on a crank arm big enough to slide a spindle about 20cm to the right?

Sadly, I think we can rule that out.

Well, it's the cause of every single bike failure I've ever had. :)

I was joking. You should see the state of my road bike. Keep meaning to wash it, keep not having time during daylight hours.

I’m pretty sure I said to threadlock the non drive side retaining bolt. Once I’d done that properly, it stayed tight.

I was also only pulling your leg mate!

But yes, thread lock is on the never ending shopping list!

So it's winter now then...

s’freezin