Maintenance Errors

[Robin Long]

After having new forks fitted to my road bike I proceeded to refit the
sensor for the computer. I placed it in the rough position I wanted and
threaded through the zip tie. Next, I spun the wheel to see if the
compouter worke but the wheel wouldn't revolve. I checked the brakes in
case they were catching and the forks, in case they were fitted wrongly. It
wasn't either of those things. No, I had fed the zip tie round one of the
spokes! Not a bad security measure though.

Have you got a more silly (or sillier) maintenance error? The best one wins
all the muck my mountain bike picked up on the Grizedale Mountain Bike
Challenge. Winner must collect.

Robin.

 

[Phil Cook]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:47:38 +0100, Robin Long wrote:

>Have you got a more silly (or sillier) maintenance error? The best one wins
>all the muck my mountain bike picked up on the Grizedale Mountain Bike
>Challenge. Winner must collect.

I once put the cranks on at 0 deg rather than 180 :-(
--
Phil Cook

 

[David Martin]

On 21/9/04 1:40 pm, in article [email protected],
"Phil Cook" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:47:38 +0100, Robin Long wrote:
>
>> Have you got a more silly (or sillier) maintenance error? The best one wins
>> all the muck my mountain bike picked up on the Grizedale Mountain Bike
>> Challenge. Winner must collect.
>
> I once put the cranks on at 0 deg rather than 180 :-(

I had a bolt fall out of the cranks about 10K into a 40K group ride (groupt
of novices) I was leading.. I didn't notice for a while, until the crank
fell off.

30K with one crank was entertaining.

 

[the.Mark]

David Martin wrote:
> On 21/9/04 1:40 pm, in article
> [email protected], "Phil Cook"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:47:38 +0100, Robin Long wrote:
>>
>>> Have you got a more silly (or sillier) maintenance error?
>>> The best one wins all the muck my mountain bike picked up on
>>> the Grizedale Mountain Bike Challenge. Winner must collect.
>>
>> I once put the cranks on at 0 deg rather than 180 :-(
>
> I had a bolt fall out of the cranks about 10K into a 40K group
> ride (groupt of novices) I was leading.. I didn't notice for a
> while, until the crank fell off.
>
> 30K with one crank was entertaining.
Bummer. That happened to me once but I only had half a mile to go but in my
case the bolt didnt come loose the crank cracked.
--
Mark

1x1 wheel, 3x2 wheels & 1x3 wheels.

 

[Colin McKenzie]

Robin Long wrote:

> Have you got a more silly (or sillier) maintenance error? The best one wins
> all the muck my mountain bike picked up on the Grizedale Mountain Bike
> Challenge. Winner must collect.

(not on my bike) Replacing a brake cable inner and outer, getting some
brake blocks and only then realising that there was nothing on the
bike to connect them together with.

Colin McKenzie

 

[David E. Belcher]

Phil Cook <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:47:38 +0100, Robin Long wrote:
>
> >Have you got a more silly (or sillier) maintenance error? The best one wins
> >all the muck my mountain bike picked up on the Grizedale Mountain Bike
> >Challenge. Winner must collect.
>
> I once put the cranks on at 0 deg rather than 180 :-(

I did a similar thing years ago, and refitted the cranks at 90
degrees. I didn't actually twig what I'd done until I rode the bike
and wondered why I couldn't get in the R/H toeclip at the right point
of the L/H pedal stroke....

David E. Belcher

 

[Hywel Davies]

.....OP's example - zip-tied computer to spokes.....

That's novice stuff. It takes a real expert to fit the forks in upside down.

I stuffed the forks into the headset, adjusted the bearings, and only then
noticed that I had carfully placed the bike upside down; resting on the
saddle to make the job easier. Whoops...

I rather doubt if anyone can beat that.....

Hywel