MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

thank you again all!

unfortunately i will not be supplying you with laundry fetish posting @umop3pisdn, not without payment anyway, @jtfh it has not but now you mention it i cannot unsee, good thing it looks like a frazzle and not a wheat crunchy (awful crisp).

@Tonts i'd be interested to hear what your minds eye thought it would be built up with

on the way back from the live blogged shakedown ride 2, gravel boogaloo, on the last 2 or 3 hills before the aforementioned 9 mile ride i heard a "PING!" and my seat dropped, which caught me off guard because i did not recall installing a dropper.

Stopping at the base of the hill i got off my bike to see what i expected to see, i didn't want to see it, by all means i wanted to look at this clamp and see a perfectly in tact bolt. it was however not in tact, and one half, some would say the better half, was gone.

i'm standing here, some miles from home with a seat post and tube which works more like an umbrella holder than a trusty perch. as you can imagine, i lost it, middle of the woods, a little dehydrated and quite hungry (I was saving my skittles and ready salted crisps for a preferred rest spot), im left with what is essentially a chopper.

i fire up the signal one message to the lycra haters and cnc enjoyers, another to mv, one message was to completely lose my mind and say i was going to impale myself on the nearest tree and when i was found to tell people why, the other to inform what had happened and how it could be fixed. i'll let the reader decide who got which message.

while that was being taken care of, no group chat, dm or forum post could get me home, not least during novel coronavirus (covid-19), so i set off to ride home in the manner of a bmx rider nursing their bike home after 6 flats and a twisted ankle, only somehow less elegantly. the cycle of shame when your bike breaks leaving you without tools to fix it is something, but let me tell you, to do it on this thing, in full wanker get up, it hit different.

on arrival MV had noticed the bolt was protruding quite a lot, both speculating at the cause of the sudden failure and a solution to removing it, suggesting i grip onto it and twist.

how to do this?

i tried big pliers

i tried small pliers

neither of them did it, but then in a moment of absolute euphoric genius, truly, cutting edge philosophical and mechanical thought i gripped the small pliers with the big pliers and that little snapped maggot started to move (the bolt, not me), elation, joy, every positive emotion realising i wouldn't have to seek out someone with a good selection of tools or scrape through increasingly niche youtube videos and forum posts.

moving onto replacing the bolt, mv then told me to do it till you knock the nose and it doesn't budge, i done that and a 1/7th twist for good luck, the difference in protruding bolt is significant, this failure is on me.

I don't think i'll be doing a big ride just yet, at least till i dial in the right amount to stop slippage, but not enough to have it snap.