Hacks / Bodges

Found on insta

The only good use for Campagnolo BB cups!

Careful. You'll have someone come along any minute and make some terrible pun about Campag-uovo

those wholemeal pittas have floored me

They’re not even cut in to soldier ffs

Surely Campeggnolo?

Surely not in Italian.

Where is the butter going to go

That full picture is a bloody mess, person gotta be a murderer that posted that.

i'm not their fucking solicitor! it's a deeply, deeply unsettling photograph

Murderer or someone murdered shortly after

Took them 2 hrs to make that breakfast -just out of shot is the pile of proprietary tools covered in knuckle skin, blood & crank arm shavings required to get the cranks off before they could remove the cups for a shite photo op.

I thought they were rocks at first glance, wondered if that was the hack/bodge

Anyone got a hack for removing those chain quick-links? Before I buy the specialist park tools tool, is there anything in the home I can use?

Needlenose pliers can normally get them done, after you've taken a few chunks of skin out when they slip.

Pliers. Never a need for park tools.

Thread a piece of brake cable through so it creates a loop, pull the ends apart with pliers to tighten it, pops right open

Thread a piece of brake cable through so it creates a loop, pull the ends apart with pliers to tighten it, pops right open

will give that a go, cheers!

I used to use the cable method (with oven gloves on to stop the cable digging into hands), but since getting the quick link pliers after a particularly stiff quick link i'd never ever go back.

Nothing like a stiffy to let you know what you want

A chance would be a fine thing...

Nothing hack or bodge about quick link pliers, brake cable sounds a good one though.
Personally I use solid old scissors and wd40 for particularly stiff ones

With the right technique, non stiff ones can often be taken off with strong hands and a bit of elbow grease

I'm all for hacks and bodges but just get the tool. There's a day of my life using all the above hacks than I will never get back again; and 30 seconds of it spent with the Park tool actually getting the job done.

You never get any of your life back.

I am gonna buy the tool though.

If you did get it back you could change that 'gonna' to 'going to' and also think about the utter pointlessness of the @reply function.