A
Absent Husband
Guest
Hey all,
Here goes my tale of woe...
Was about to head out on a ride eysterday to recon the Nundah crit
track - a leisurely 55km round trip from home. A nice way, on a
beautiful Spring Brissie day, to get back onto the bike...
Anyway, I noticed my rear brakes were a little bit loose/rattley. So I
whipped out the old allen keys to tighten up the bolts.
(Sidenote - a lot of the bolts on my bike are pretty rusty. Don't know
why - they seemed to rust up very, very quickly after purchase. But
anyway...)
So I tighten the main bolt that holds it onto the frame. Then go to
tighten the little bolt that goes through the quick release lever. And
'SNAP' - the head of the bolt shears straight off... Well, you can
imagine the colourful language I used!!!
So now, the QR lever won't stay on, and the shaft of the bolt is wedged
into the bit that holds onto the cable... There was no way I was gonna
miss out on my ride for this - so I got busy with some electrical tape,
and bound the whole thing back together. As far as I could tell, there
was no way that the brake could fail (ie, there would be no 'pressure'
on the elctrical tape, etc). And thankfully, it survived my ride
safely...
So now - what to do??? I'm tossing up between going to a specialist
bolt seller, to see if they have similar ones that I can buy to replace
(I assume Bunnings won't have the range - but I'll check there too...).
OR, I could do an 'upgrade', and buy new brakes.
The new brake option is attractive. All the bolts/springs in the brakes
are rusting. And they are no-name brakes too (I thought they were Sora
like the rest of my gruppo - but there are no markings at all), so I
was thinking I could buy a set of 105 brakes off PBK (does that qualify
as 'pimping my ride'?? *grins*). But just getting a couple of new bolts
would obviously be cheaper....
Anyway - be careful with rusty bolts people!! Or better yet - don't let
'em get rusty!!
Cheers,
Abby (electrical tape - not just for footy boots)
Here goes my tale of woe...
Was about to head out on a ride eysterday to recon the Nundah crit
track - a leisurely 55km round trip from home. A nice way, on a
beautiful Spring Brissie day, to get back onto the bike...
Anyway, I noticed my rear brakes were a little bit loose/rattley. So I
whipped out the old allen keys to tighten up the bolts.
(Sidenote - a lot of the bolts on my bike are pretty rusty. Don't know
why - they seemed to rust up very, very quickly after purchase. But
anyway...)
So I tighten the main bolt that holds it onto the frame. Then go to
tighten the little bolt that goes through the quick release lever. And
'SNAP' - the head of the bolt shears straight off... Well, you can
imagine the colourful language I used!!!
So now, the QR lever won't stay on, and the shaft of the bolt is wedged
into the bit that holds onto the cable... There was no way I was gonna
miss out on my ride for this - so I got busy with some electrical tape,
and bound the whole thing back together. As far as I could tell, there
was no way that the brake could fail (ie, there would be no 'pressure'
on the elctrical tape, etc). And thankfully, it survived my ride
safely...
So now - what to do??? I'm tossing up between going to a specialist
bolt seller, to see if they have similar ones that I can buy to replace
(I assume Bunnings won't have the range - but I'll check there too...).
OR, I could do an 'upgrade', and buy new brakes.
The new brake option is attractive. All the bolts/springs in the brakes
are rusting. And they are no-name brakes too (I thought they were Sora
like the rest of my gruppo - but there are no markings at all), so I
was thinking I could buy a set of 105 brakes off PBK (does that qualify
as 'pimping my ride'?? *grins*). But just getting a couple of new bolts
would obviously be cheaper....
Anyway - be careful with rusty bolts people!! Or better yet - don't let
'em get rusty!!
Cheers,
Abby (electrical tape - not just for footy boots)