Hacks / Bodges

Yeah, it’s Waldies or to hell with yuz.

I thank you very much. Forum fettling footwear of choice, no?

It's another bodge actually, I Dremeled out a cable stop to run a full length brake housing to the rear when this bike was a single speed, but obviously that meant there was nothing to hold the cable in place. So the zip tie round the top tube, through a washer is a replacement. Sort of more complicated than it needs to be!

Hmm

Exactly, they're bit even close to the same blue as the bike.

Pyc of entyre byke plyse

this is priceless!!! fuk stuck seatposts!

Here you go. Phone camera seems to be deteriorating, hope it's reasonably sharp.

Edit: basket is actually level and the whole bike looks a bit shorter than it actually is, weird perspective.

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A chainring bolt wrench in a vise and an impact driver with a 5mm hex bit makes short work of stuck chainring bolts.

Those things should be outlawed regardless.

I replace them with double hex ones as soon as possible

What if the 25mm post gets stuck?

Hehe!

Which ones do you get?
Maybe my google-fu is lacking, but I'm having trouble finding some.

Sram, Rotor or Truvativ. Cykelgear.dk have the Sram ones at 59,-

Shout out to all the bike mounted Royal Mail bins. May your discarded empty cans and ice cream wrappers forever be sticky.

That was my next question!
Thanks a lot!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203025228415
bonus point if you can correctly identify what all of the controls on / around the bars are for.

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Obviously the white tube thing is part of a waste trap. No way this rider is losing a contact lens down that ... er ... sink.

Upper left brake lever is the clutch, cable tied off because they’ve given up riding the thing on petrol.

Grip shift on right is throttle. I think all the other levers are what they’re meant to be, including the floating grip shift gear levers.

It looks like there are two extra non grip shift gear levers not connected. Maybe they were planning to do it properly but got bored / collared.

From @Chak

hm

:)). What's the benefit of that?

Diverts attention away from the tyre choice.

Might be good when reversing?!

Your feet get cold and wet but you don't get any blowback onto your light