Hacks / Bodges

I can see that screw shearing. Would also suggest the chances of getting that disc to run in alignment through pads are pretty slim.

But what do I know?

I dont think you quite understand what this thread is about ;)

As a guide, points are added for risk of dying in a fireball.

I didn't fucking do it, the guy who's Facebook it's off makes some questionable mechanical decisions sometimes but even he put it up as a WTF? It's absolutely idiotic but I had to share it somewhere.

Here are some carefully made custom-cardboard mudguards that I spotted in my town. I thought they were funny because the look so thorough, they went all in with the cardboard and tape.

The other is a bike with a back to front fork which looks intentional but I don't understand why one would do so, Anyone care to enlighten me?

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The other is a bike with a back to front fork which looks intentional but I don't understand why one would do so, Anyone care to enlighten me?

They are shipped like that in the box.
The costumer have straightened the bars, but not realised that the fork should be rotated as well.

I’m using those cardboard mudguards pic for the first page

interesting - negative trail? - when the forks are the wrong way round

I'm glad you like them as much as I did!

I don't understand what that means. What does trail refer to?

picture is worth a thousand words etc

no a reverse fork gives even more trail

Point taken! :)

How can someone, even with scant knowledge of bicycles, look at that and think 'yep - that's what a bike looks like'?!

Fucking loads of people, although a few less since they've started putting special stickers on boxed bikes.

You'd be surprised
https://www.behance.net/gallery/35437979/Velocipedia

would ride

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so good

"turns r deth"

Would a love a "turns r deth"CP

When you seatpost is too small and all you have in the flat is tape

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Poor man’s Isospeed

Ted James (now TJD) did some pretty crazy hacks.
I remembering him zip tieing is rear wheel on after his QR skewer snapped so he could ride home.

Miss riding with him :(

While I was touring in morocco; a stainless rack bolt sheered in my fork, with the weight of the front panniers, riding on rough gravel roads. I managed to bodge the rack back on, using the lower braze-ons,to finish the trip, but it ended up sitting a couple of inches higher than it was supposed to.
First tried extracting the bolt with a set of snap-on extractors, but it was loc-tited in, and the sheered face wasn't flat enough to drill a central pilot hole. Resorted to drilling it out to 5mm, using an extra long bit. Drilled out the other side first, the went in to the sheered bolt from the inside. As it didn't come right to the end of the thread it was guaranteed to stay nicely centred, and minimise the risk off trashing the fork. Worked a treat, and now I'm going to use a pair of longer A4 bolts with nyloc nuts in the inside, which will make them super easy to repair if the sane thing happens again, in the future.

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top quality repair!

are you going to do a trip report from the morocco stuff? would love to see

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