Ouch; or A Tale of Two Pieces of Seatbolt

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9769m3->

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I guess I'll stop at a real bike shop after I cross the lake.

http://www.frappr.com/seattlebikeshops

Tacoma Screw is another great place to look. 116th Street exit off 405 in
Kirkland, among other places, ...but you already knew that

"Dane Buson" wrote🙁clip) I don't expect much from Performance, but that's
pretty poor even for them. (clip)
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The Performance store in San Rafael, CA is excellent.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan
cannot tell the difference." - Mort Sahl
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Bush knows the difference, but he prefers to lie.

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"Dane Buson" wrote🙁clip) I don't expect much from Performance, but that's
pretty poor even for them. (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Performance store in San Rafael, CA is excellent.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan
cannot tell the difference." - Mort Sahl
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Bush knows the difference, but he prefers to lie.

Nixon brought'em home, as promised.

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I was coming into work today, leaving a little late, but still in a
decent amount of time to make my first meetings. Having crossed the
I-90 bridge and descended the hill over the lid park, I crossed onto the
MUP and took a seat.

Or rather, tried to. A snapping sound from my seat and a mild cuff on
my nether regions followed. Thankfully, my Carradice SQR bag kept my
saddle from fully tilting all the way back and acted as a secondary
seat. [1] I slowed the bike rather quickly to a stop and checked to
make sure I hadn't done any grievous injury to the seat of my pants.

After a brief pause for reflection[2], I gathered up the loose pieces of
my seatpost, and the broken bolt (sheared in half about four threads
from the top). After stuffing the various pieces into my bag, I headed
to work again. [3]

One of my coworkers was kind enough to drive me up to the LBS to get a
replacement. I was to be sadly disappointed. Wandering back to the
service area, it took a while to get their attention. At first I
thought he was servicing the bike of the guy in front of me. Later I
realized he was simply having a conversation about how *great* Ksyrium
wheels were and some other weight weenie components.

After realizing I had a broken bolt, and it was for the seatpost mount,
*not* the binder, they just looked me blankly and said "we don't have
any of those". I don't expect much from Performance, but that's pretty
poor even for them. A quick trip to Lowes later, I was still sans bolt,
as the type of metric bolts I needed stop at 35mm, and I needed at least
40mm.

I guess I'll stop at a real bike shop after I cross the lake.

http://www.frappr.com/seattlebikeshops

[1] Unexpected reason about #5 I love my Carradice bag.
[2] Did I mention it hurt?
[3] About 5 miles.

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Dane Buson - [email hidden]
"Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth;
Reagan cannot tell the difference." - Mort Sahl

I had a problem like that once, I had to buy a longer bolt than needed and
cut off the excess, and use a file to smooth it out and camphor the end
some.
But it has still held up for years now.

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I guess I'll stop at a real bike shop after I cross the lake.

You could have done Gregg's instead, on this side of the lake; closer and
better than Performance. Just drop down the Lake Hills Connector to
downtown, left on Main.

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I had a problem like that once, I had to buy a longer bolt than needed and

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cut off the excess, and use a file to smooth it out

and----->camphor<-------------- the end

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some

After you did that, did it repel moths???

Claire Petersky said:

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I guess I'll stop at a real bike shop after I cross the lake.

You could have done Gregg's instead, on this side of the lake; closer and
better than Performance. Just drop down the Lake Hills Connector to
downtown, left on Main.

Yes, but if they weren't able to help me for some reason, I would have
had an extra four or five miles and been in the same spot. Once I
crossed the lake, I had a plethora of choices. Including some shops I
know the people fairly well. What I should have thought was to hit
Greggs in the first place.

As it happens, I had a spare seatpost in the right size in my parts box,
so I just swapped it out.

God, I never appreciated how nice a seat is until I didn't have one.

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in the deepest part of a very deep lake.' -- (Linus T.)

Have you tried the Third Hand?

http://www.loosescrews.com/

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"Handsome Prince" wrote: After you did that, did it repel moths???
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, you don't see any moths around it, do you?

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Claire Petersky said:

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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What I should have thought was to hit
Greggs in the first place.

That's what I meant. That Performance shop is OK for picking up, say, a
jersey on sale, but I wouldn't necessarily have my bike worked on there.

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Claire Petersky
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Frank Drackman said:

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9769m3->

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I guess I'll stop at a real bike shop after I cross the lake.

http://www.frappr.com/seattlebikeshops

Tacoma Screw is another great place to look. 116th Street exit off 405 in
Kirkland, among other places, ...but you already knew that

I know it exists, but I've never managed to make it up there. I work in
the eastside, but I spend most of the rest of my time in Seattle.

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Dane Buson - [email hidden]
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And we don't vomit. We 'Trickle down to the lower classes'."
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Chris Z The Wheelman said:

Have you tried the Third Hand?

http://www.loosescrews.com/

Well, the problem was I needed the bolt to get home yesterday. Plus
it's my commuter, so I don't like having it down for multiple days.

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Dane Buson - [email hidden]
"And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space,
because that's exactly how much difference there is."
- Larry Wall

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Frank Drackman said:

"Dane Buson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9769m3->

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I guess I'll stop at a real bike shop after I cross the lake.

http://www.frappr.com/seattlebikeshops

Tacoma Screw is another great place to look. 116th Street exit off 405
in
Kirkland, among other places, ...but you already knew that

I know it exists, but I've never managed to make it up there. I work in
the eastside, but I spend most of the rest of my time in Seattle.

Their motto is

"If it is a standard part, we stock it"

They have a great assortment of metric fasteners. I recently used them for
some weird metric screws for cleats.

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Dane Buson said:

I was coming into work today, leaving a little late, but still in a
decent amount of time to make my first meetings. Having crossed the
I-90 bridge and descended the hill over the lid park, I crossed onto the
MUP and took a seat.

Or rather, tried to. A snapping sound from my seat and a mild cuff on
my nether regions followed. Thankfully, my Carradice SQR bag kept my
saddle from fully tilting all the way back and acted as a secondary
seat. [1] I slowed the bike rather quickly to a stop and checked to
make sure I hadn't done any grievous injury to the seat of my pants.

Not so long ago you had pieces of handlebar coming off in your hands,
and now this?

Maybe you need bikes made to military spec :-)

cheers,
Tom

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Tom Keats said:

Not so long ago you had pieces of handlebar coming off in your hands,
and now this?

Maybe you need bikes made to military spec :-)

Well, I'm working on it. I think it's time to move to a two-bolt
seatpost (both for ease of adjustment and the fact that both have to
break before something like this happens). I'm waiting for the warranty
to run out on my frame before I spread it to 145 mm and put in a
dishless tandem wheel though.

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Dane Buson - [email hidden]
"Protecting the children is a good way to get a lot of adults
who cant stand up for themselves" -J. Stecher