Today's Lesson

Today, d0cA learned to check his chainring, incase 4 of them had fallen out.

Us: Didn't you notice the noise it must have been making?
d0cA: Well, it creaked a bit.

dogsballs was a wizard, straightened it out so d0cA could ride home.

that's nearly as bad as my mate coming round with his bike and complaining the gears were "skipping a bit", the fucking frame was nearly in half due to a huge crack in the BB/downtube area.

LOL :)

Check ya rings kids!

the last thing you want is to bend your ring out of shape and have dogsballs force it afterwards

I saw d0cA's chainring... me personally I would've bought a new one and got the wizard that is dogsballs to fit it for me. :)

who was carrying spare bolts?

That's quite weird, cos I was cleaning my bike last week when I noticed that two of the stack bolts had worked themselves loose. I was going to post and mention it somewhere, but I just forgot about it. Anyway, I think the moral of the story is to make sure that you use a peg spanner to hold the back of the stack bolts when you're installing them in the first instance. Probably less likely to end up with a folding chainring if you do. :-)

That happened to me once... I keep learning things the hard way.

I fucking stacked it after a good long ride today. Today's lesson? Be careful mounting curbs or your front wheel will try and escape sending you straight down.

d0cA was right next to blb when i saw him, and it was open. So he could've bought a chainring and bolts. Well in theory, they may have just looked blankly at him and tried to sell him a deep v or an aerospoke :)

for £600

I would have let them have a look at my ring.. possibly get some lube to stop the squeaking?

blb would've charged that for the crank bolts. each :P

provenrad I would have let them have a look at my ring.. possibly get some lube to stop the squeaking?

gynaecologist?

asm gynaecologist?

No - rectumanalyst. Why?
Haha Doca - Bad luck! At least it didn't snap - you need to get a good solid piece of metal on there..

asm d0cA was right next to blb when i saw him, and it was open. So he could've bought a chainring and bolts. Well in theory, they may have just looked blankly at him and tried to sell him a deep v or an aerospoke :)

He did try, but they didn't have any chainrings the same size. He bought a 48t ring, but as he was using a 44t and didn't have enough chain, db did his thing.

BLB did take the chainring back and gave him a refund.

a filmore is it?

don't say much for their build ups..

For some reason chainring bolts seem to loosen up on fixed gears quite easily

yeah, I like to use decent stainless ones, you can really beast them up without stripping them

RPM, what ones do you use, mine gone rusty :(

these

why thank you, good man.
sugino ones are shite.

you can loctite them I suppose, but that makes undoing them hard.
I use copper grease

put new chainring on on saturday. did the chainring bolts up FT. (that's fuckin tight - you gotta). used a bit of copper grease too. putting on a shiny new ring shamed me into giving the ride a good clean too. but stupid in this weather but there you go.

stompy - good to have you back online dude.

This is good stuff:

http://www.finishlineusa.com/products/ti-prep.htm

And get one of these, or something similar: