Bike destroyers tell your story here...

was sorting through my parts box at my parents over easter, and found a carrier bag which contained about 4 or 5 trashed cheapo rear derrellieurs from my days as a teenage cheapo mtb thrasher... dunno why I'm keeping them, though i feel a strange attachment to them somehow...

I managed to screw my STI lever when trying to shit between my front double. Chain got lodged yet i stubbornly continued trying to shift, something gave in the lever, now gear shifting doesn't work with it. I went for months without the use of the small chainring, i like to think my legs are now huge but i doubt it.....

I rode for about 15 years in the big ring on my old Apollo.. the BB or cranks were bent so in the small ring it would either grind or drop the chain.

@CowHen Shitting between any front is always going to end in tears

i had a flat tyre once...

I am a fucking idiot.

Whilst rebuilding my sisters old shopper for the missus, I managed to thread the BB cups into the wrong sides thanks to my awesome strength and massive stubborness. The non drive is all the way in, after some swearing and plenty of slips of the spanner. The drive side is only half in, but I have destroyed the pin spanner getting it that far, as I popped an extender on there to get enough torque. I remembered they were a bugger to get out, so didn't consider that I was quite that much of a retard that I'd put them on the wrong fucking sides

I only realised what I had done after I had given up in a strop and thrown everything back in the shed.

I haven't owned up to it yet.

Fixed it yesterday afternoon. I managed to get the cups out using the damaged pin spanner, and then they threaded in the other cups pretty easily. I put the rest of the bike back into working order, apart from the rear brake, where the pads won't reach due to a combination of large mudguards and thin rims. Time to break out the tin snips I think. What could possibly go wrong?

I now have a way of remembering BB cups: "Right is wrong, so it gets fixed."

Unless its non drive side in which right is..right!

right is right, left is left. pretty standard really. though with BB'sthey are always stubborn or trouble some in one way or another. got a new external bb to replace the collapsed one on mtb, finger tightened it as a mate had my tool for torquing them in.
Weeks later picked the bike out of the heap again and rode for a day, got back home with slight crank clonk, yeah, drive side external BB cup had come loose and perfectly polished my frames BB thread to a nice baby smooth finish.
epic BB thread frame fail.

also just returned home from london, done 80-90 miles on an overloaded 70s rat bike, both wheels left home perfect, after most of london rear had a slight out of true and round syndrome, not 50m from home just coasting to a halt, snap snap snap, flick flick flcik flick. ARHGHGH My legs.. arhghghgh
2 spokes snapped and thrashed away at my legs whilst coming to a halt.
amazing that things break in that way, just metres from home.

Just filled my frame with caustic soda, was just wondering how often you should change the caustic solution? Or is it not neccesary?

probably by now

Just filled my frame with caustic soda

Seatpost? Has that worked yet?

Been replacing the solution every day, so far whittled it down by a few mm but it's still stuck. I give it a few more days, the reaction's pretty viciuos by the look of the smoke that spews out the top, plus the used caustic is full of black residue from the burnt up alu.

What I wanted to hear.

Never buying a Genesis again. Snapped the carbon seat post on the south downs way, snapped the handlebars waiting at the lights, snapped the mech hanger twice, waited 3 months for a new one, they sent the wrong one. Snapped the 8 speed chain twice, ripped 2 teeth off the big chain ring. And the bottle cage eyelets are falling out. None of this ever happend to my dawes.

@CowHen, I did the same thing, but i found if you empty and fill it up in the morning, empty after work then refill, it works far quicker the reaction only lasts so long, so the more refills the better

I had an old raleigh steel road bike when about 14. I was riding up a steep hill one morning when snap! my old rusty quill stem snapped at the headset and sent me tumbling in to a parked car!

Luckily i was seated and wasnt too far from home.

shit, that looks like it was fun! Hurt much?

Recently I've been Mr.Sapim & Mr.DT of switzerlands favourite customer. Snapping spokes is now a weekly occurance, yes some because they are old wheels but the other set are only a year or so old.
I don't think my heavy riding* style suits road bikes very well O_o

• literally heavy too, 80kg rider + whatever bag I am carrying with me, generally 10kg.
  

Luckily i was seated and wasnt too far from home.

Same thing happened to me except it was a £40 9 speed Sram chain with about 200 miles on it. And I was in the middle of the devonshire countryside. Luckily I was riding with a mechanic who managed to bodge it back together.

Also managed to part strip a campag hub trying to remove a freewheel the wrong way. - Didn't ruin it, but annoying anyway. Completely stripped another hub for the same reason.

Yeah this was a KMC X10L Titanium Nitrate which is a good £40, but i have enough links to repair it, not that i trust it again. ^^^ Looks like a decent crash!

I will be catching up with the TNRC soon, but this weekend I got all of 2 miles on a ride out with my dad when my bike decided to eat itself. The left bb cup unscrewed itself into the left crank arm and the right crank shifted over to the left and ran the smaller chainring into the frame, taking a healthy chunk of paint with it. It now seems that the bb I have been using for almost a year won't work without the chainring rubbing the frame. Very strange.

Just saying ... :)

Ouch, how'd you manage that?

I lent it to someone.

Originally Posted by Bike Destroyer
I will be catching up with the TNRC soon, but this weekend I got all of 2 miles on a ride out with my dad when my bike decided to eat itself. The left bb cup unscrewed itself into the left crank arm and the right crank shifted over to the left and ran the smaller chainring into the frame, taking a healthy chunk of paint with it. It now seems that the bb I have been using for almost a year won't work without the chainring rubbing the frame. Very strange.

Just saying ... :)

Thanks for popping this in the correct thread!