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withered_preacher
dancing james
Bernhard
Not sure if this is epic but it was certainly a fail. I was teaching a basic maintenance class - really basic stuff like knowing what a barrel adjuster is for, how to check the bike for simple safety issues, how to repair a puncture, how to get the wheels on and off. Having demonstrated, on my own wheel, how to get the tyre off and the inner tube in and out, I pumped it up and we carried on. Until I put it back in the frame and something was knocking loudly with each revolution. I'd done something I'd have thought impossible - I'd refitted and re-inflated the tyre with a a tyre lever inside it.
Now I know how surgeons feel when they have to go back in to retrieve a wrist watch.