Hacks / Bodges

Quite tidy!

When I was working in Belgrade our toolmaker had a similar hierarchy.

Dim and lazy - don’t worry about these people, they’re not a problem.
Dim and hardworking - avoid them, they ruin everything
Smart and hardworking- get them to work for you
Smart and lazy - these people rule the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Classification_of_officers

As Chief of the Army High Command, Hammerstein-Equord oversaw the composition of the German manual on military unit command (Truppenführung), dated 17 October 1933.

He conceived of a classification scheme for officers:

I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

This being the guy who got away with telling Hitler to Fuck Off. Twice.

Made a pigtail steak flipper from a DAC tent pole and fender strut and electricians tape.

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On the laziness point,
I've always held the view that laziness fundamentally drives technologically progress.

Why invent a wheel unless you are too lazy to carry something?

Yeah, but why inv....en...meh

I've always held the view that laziness fundamentally drives technologically progress.

Why invent a wheel unless you are too lazy to carry something?

I wonder if that is still true. Seems like nowadays ‘employ someone from a developing nation and pay them a pittance to carry the thing’ might be a more likely alternative to inventing the wheel.

Yeah but now it's evolved into "I really can't be arsed interleave all off those printed pdf halves, I'll write a Linux script to reorder my document instead."

Had the great idea of repurposing a garden sprayer as a tubeless tyre inflator the other day, unfortunately didn't work that well as the valve didn't let the air through quick enough. I may persevere with a cheap ebay ball valve when I can be arsed to look at it again.

“I like to employ clever lazy people, they’re more likely to find an easier way to get the job done” — oddly, this very quote was attributed to Bill Gates in a recent interview.

Good bodge

I came up with another hack that might be of interest. The down tube bottle cages on the giant are mounted fairly high up on the downtube. This causes issues with the frame bag due to the small frame triangle. To solve this problem, I had to move the bottle cages to the lowest possible position. Since I couldn’t be bothered to go to the hardware store, I had a look in our shared flat’s tool closet where I found some struts of an old Ikea bed. I cut off the sections with the long holes and used them as sliders to lower the bottle cages. Still a little tight but certainly an improvement.

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Tidy, might need a side entry cage too

True. Any recommendations for well-functioning and reasonably priced ones that don’t look hideous?

so weird. I'm sitting next to a stack of those right now that we scrapped from our bed and replaced with rigid steel bar

No experience with them but these look close enough to your current ones

I bought a couple of different alu ones a while ago, couldn't really see any difference in function between them. Get whichever ones you like the look of.

Snap.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14215783/

What frame is that? Ive had that happen to a principea, and im keeping hold of the frame because I love it and will try turning it into a 1x.

Its an older (~2005?) canyon ultimate AL

The screw on clamp is a cervelo replacement part

Cheers

Thanks!

Shakedown ride went flawlessly (might be even more stable than the original solution)

First shim (years old, has been fine for ages) started to let the seatpost slip, so...yo dawg etc

Fingers crossed this one stays, plenty of assembly paste in there as well. Finished off tidier, photo is just to see what's in there.

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Fuck your crocs.

Hope it stops slipping! What's going on with the zip tie/washer/cable housing?

It's a honey trap.