Hacks / Bodges

I think I'd be more worried about the battery catching fire while charging than it falling off the bike.

not having a dig btw, just that if the bike / battery is put together that badly in the first place...

I reckon I've use a fine-tooth enough comb. The twisted wire can't have been factory.

Turns out the creaking I'd been hearing for the last week was the slow demise of the rails on my saddle which finally snapped in two this morning.

Need to get home so chopped and routed a bit of ply to support the saddle.

Gaffa tape going on in a minute.

This just needs to hold until Wednesday when I can fit my other saddle.

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This just needs to hold until Wednesday

But could end up lasting three years. Excellent bodge.

@si_mon628 I've wanted to make a plywood saddle for years and this may prove to be the gateway

Turns out the creaking I'd been hearing for the last week was the slow demise of the rails on my saddle which finally snapped in two this morning.

That happened to me recently. I did wonder why the saddle had gone a bit droopy and only realised when I got home ...

Need to get home

This just needs to hold until Wednesday

Boy, that's quite a commute!

Ah, the bitter head in question. Fuck off, champ.

Not sure what bee is buzzing your particular bonnet but imagine getting angry on the internet with a stranger who doesn’t like the bodge you like. Fucking tedious at best

This isn't the first time I've suffered this and knew it was coming.
Just laziness/wishful thinking for not swapping the saddle out before the final Snap!

I can see this will become my favourite section of LFGSS.

My colleagues were appalled/amused by my saddle bodge (we work in a restoration workshop so creative thinking is mandatory, but bodges are totally frowned upon).

Today I took the chance to get my track pump working again. The head had given up, but the original hose is a beefy diameter and I couldn't find a direct replacement or compatible head, so I bought the more ubiquitous smaller hose and head and took a few minutes iver lunch break to machine a step down converter.
Brought both the hoses to the same OD with layers of heat shrink and clamp the whole thing with jubilee clips.

If I can get another 20 years out of this track pump I will be thrilled!

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If I can get another 20 years out of this track pump I will be thrilled!

Can't you bodge your knees, too? :)

If it doesn't hold I can thoroughly recommend the topeak smart head.

I went for the whole upgrade kit like below, but you can also just get the head

I did a little light bodging this morning, on the way to work I saw a colleague pushing their bike. They had a flat and didn’t have anything to mend it. Fear not I’ll sort you out. Oh no! No glue in the tube cement tube, well a little bit of hard gel, that’s ok I’ll stick my spare in it of them. Shit it’s a schrader valve and I only have a too skinny presta tube. One patch with a hole poked in it later and hopefully she’ll make to home and back, I’ve got the tube and will fix it tonight and change it over tomorrow. Now will I make it home tonight with no spare? Stay tuned to find out.

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In unrelated news, if your hands are covered in muck and grease for any reason and you have to go straight into a meeting when you get to work, one of those small white magic sponges (you use to get marks off things without scratching them) is amazing at cleaning you up in no time.

Great knowledge sharing!

I have this problem all the time.

For clarity I was using regular washroom pump hand soap as well. But that normally just spreads dirt around.

Pop a pair of latex gloves in your toolkit. Bit serial killer but no more mucky hands

Cracking advice there, but I’ll add remember to check them occasionally. The purple ones in my bag were stuck together and when I pulled them apart I had 2 rubber bands and a sort of butterfly shaped piece of non-latex skin…

Park Tools glue-less patches. Work great and take up the no space in your bag.

I was using regular washroom pump hand soap as well.

Add sugar.

I normally use Swarfega. The problem I find with nitrile gloves is remembering to put them on.

I like the site gloves from screwfix, buta again it's remembering to put them on.

What if I'm watching my diet?

Dish soap and salt ftw

It makes it a seafood diet.

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