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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6935
Location: Maine9/20/13 5:56 AM |
Phriday Phun
Just a little humor from my morning commute. Perhaps some others have had a similar experience.
Rolling my rando bike out of the garage, I notice one front fender stay is out of its bracket, and projecting sideways. This could cause all sorts of mischief, particularly as I ride over some woods trails, so I endeavor to fix it. The hardware is there, apparently it just loosened enough for the stay to pop out (I heard a metallic noise riding home yesterday, but didn't notice the fender).
So instead of loosening everything up and readjusting the fender, I take the little bracket out of the dropout fitting, loosen it up, reinsert the stay, and proceed to try to screw it back into the fitting. I guess I loosen my grip a little, and SPPRONGGG, the stay (which I didn't realize is like a fully loaded howitzer) launches the allen bolt and washers to who knows where (I'm outside in my gravel driveway). I look for awhile, but I don't have the time right now. Fortunately the bracket is still on the stay, and I rummage around my shop and find another bolt that works.
Note to self: Next time be cognizant of the awesome projective properties of a fully loaded Berthoud fender stay.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield9/20/13 6:34 AM |
Good thing you had a ride ahead of you, to de-stress. pun not intended
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA9/20/13 7:34 AM |
Murphy strikes again. If you had been in an enclosed area where the bolt was easily found, this never would have happened!
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Matthew Currie
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 803
Location: Vermont9/20/13 7:47 AM |
A while ago I was bleeding the brakes on my mountain bike (one of those Shimano rigs that requires a little plastic bowl in place of a plug). All goes well until I'm putting the plug back in, whereupon it falls off the allen wrench. It's a little thing, falls to the floor among the debris, and vanishes utterly. I spent a long time looking, it was getting late, flashlight and sifting, noting. I found it the next day after having made a new plug.
The next day, I was in the same area, putting a different nozzle on my pressure washer. I dropped it (I do this a lot these days) and once again it vanished utterly. Now this thing was bigger, and bright red. Could I find it? Not a chance. More sifting. I finally looked at the wall, and it had lodged in a shelf bracket, never hit the floor at all.
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PLee
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 3713
Location: Brooklyn, NY9/20/13 10:01 AM |
Nowadays, I don't have to drop anything to lose it. Once (and I swear it only happened once), I was looking for my small garage door opener for a while before I realized that I was holding it in my hand . . .
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT9/20/13 4:50 PM |
seatpost binder
This happened twice.
I was tightening up the seat post binder on an old Bianchi and went one turn beyond. The other side took off like a bullet. Fortunately, nobody was standing in front of it! Now you know why my spouse hates it when I close bottles and jars.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19200
Location: PDX9/20/13 4:55 PM |
" Now you know why my spouse hates it when I close bottles and jars."
You know what they say, you can be a little heavy for light work. They also say you can be a little to light for heavy work. I am both...
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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC9/20/13 5:43 PM |
Now I feel better...
quote:
Nowadays, I don't have to drop anything to lose it. Once (and I swear it only happened once), I was looking for my small garage door opener for a while before I realized that I was holding it in my hand . . .
Yep!
Except I know it happened to me more than once. And I'm quite a bit younger than you...
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