Hacks / Bodges

Uhhhhh, why?

I might use this method for the battered toes of my walking boots. I'd forgotten you'd posted this before and it's probably a bit more elegant than my initial plan of slapping a puncture patch on there.

It stops flimsy panniers flapping against the wheel. Most racks have coat hanger shaped ears built-in.

Not super hack-y, but the first thing I did with my Yuba Mundo was swap the bars to Surly Sunrise bars. Of course the screen was made to mount to 31.8mm bars like so.

Because the Sunrise bars are 22.2mm, I was shimming the screen it next to the stem and it looked a bit shit and sat crooked and wasn’t super secure. I bought a cheap additional light mount bracket from eBay and used an old rail from a wardrobe and rigged this up. I need to replace the rail with something a bit nicer (or figure out a decent shim for the included aluminium tube that came with the bracket), but it works and now the screen sits perfectly above my stem and is more secure.

You can see how it was awkwardly mounted using shims and electrical tape near the stem before.

EDIT: Worked perfectly this morning.

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This is promising. I have two Flites that need some love.

Hack(sawed) off a hanger.

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Picked up a cheap swytch bike kit to make my kid hauler a bit more useful but hated the handle bar mount. Bodged a rack mount out of an old headphone stand a dowel and some rack hardware. Muuuuch better

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Thought puppy killing had been banned on LFGSS?

Probably more a tip than a hack. But forks with a longer a-c (410 is maximum recommended) and rack eyelets can mount a Pelago Commuter rack with this little tweak. Turned the mounts clockwise and then:

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My father's (Peugeot) bbq.

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I'm actually more impressed by your recycling of old tubes with old bungee hooks (a bodge I feel I should already know of at my age, but have to confess never came across)

Excellent!

I didn’t even register the bungee ends. Thanks for pointing it out!

No spider at the American Pool table, but there were 3 regular rests. (I made the pot).

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Nice!!

I saw a couple of posts on here that forever put me off using bungee chords for anything.

Google "bungee chord eye injury" ...

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Clearly insane though this is, I do kind of admire the ingenuity and execution. Kind of.

Why I prefer using plastic buckles on my inner tubes ;-). Could prob give you a nasty smack if you aren’t careful tho

As well as all of the other crazy dangers in that drill setup, with a bag hanging over the bars for good measure, I'm worrying about the handling characteristics of a front wheel drive bike. Massive understeer?

Ask one of the thousands of Deliveroo riders with front wheel drive hub motors!

Friends with Swytch love theirs.
Whups, meant for @mashton

Fair

Have a front drive an like it, i also dont use it cranked all the way up. Worst i have seen with it was some wheelspin on start when it was maxed out but no funky handeling. Wanna put one on my cargo bike at also at somepoint.

I've had a front wheel drive Raleigh in the past that had terrible speed wobble. Not sure if it was the motors doing though