D'oh! Things you learn or figure out after a long time

[merckx]

I cannot resist. Here is brother Erik.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

cut up an old tube and put the C02 cart inside the tube like a sleeve. no more rattles and you dont freeze your fingers when you finally use it. obviously the sleeve is re-usable on the next cart.

Hey, that's a good idea. I may have to do that.

Another one: I got back into cycling ten years ago. For the first couple of years I ran my rear brake cable/housing to the right of the head tube instead of elegantly looping it around on the left. Because I didn't know any better and didn't take notice of how it was done on other bikes.



Ugh. Painful to look at!

[MesiJezi]

Originally Posted by MattTuck

If you ride dirt/gravel roads in the rain, or even just regular roads, you'll be throwing up a ton of nasty road grime and debris into that tubular under the seat.

I think if you're going to do that, you should keep it protected from the elements.

That's what I was getting at... not questioning the rain worthiness of tubular tires

Anyway. Here's one I learned recently--not cycling related:

If you put a grocery bag over your hand/foot before stuffing it in to your wet suit, you'll slide right in, even when it's already wet. As soon as your bag covered hand/foot emerges from the sleeve/leg, just pull the bag out, put it on your next appendage, and repeat.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by MesiJezi

If you put a grocery bag over your hand/foot before stuffing it in to your wet suit, you'll slide right in...

If you put plastic bags over your feet before stuffing them into your cycling shoes (as well as putting on overshoes/booties) in the winter you can buy an extra half hour or so on the bike on frosty days in the dead of winter without needing chemical toe warmers.

[Gummee]

I've never had a problem with rattling CO2 cartridges 'cause I always tape em together with a valve extender in the valley between the 2 cartridges.

...then it don't matter what valve you run 'cause there's always a valve extender with you

M

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by merckx

A solution is within reach.

Huzzah!!!

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by MesiJezi

If you never ride in the rain and grit I guess!

My aunt Matilda's mustache, tubulars in the muck are fine and maybe even.....superior!!! But put the far superior tubular tire in an old sock...done.

[Drmojo]

Originally Posted by azrider

After all these years I've learned:

CO2 = finite

Pumps = infinite

nicer to environment too
low tech high utilty
only whippets for me😵

[Gummee]

Saw this on the book of face. A true 'doh!' moment


M

[rousseau]

Got another one. I've been fiddling with my rear derailleur for a few days now. Turns out the thread in the barrel adjuster was stripped. I got the LBS to tap out the derailleur and put in a new barrel adjuster.

But in the course of doing all this, a strand on the cable started coming loose. Peeved, I thought I was going to need to get a new cable, but then I had a brainwave: what if I just peeled the strand back to before the cable stop on the chainstay?

Eh? Well, what do you know. It worked!



I guess now I just have to see how long my ingenious fix lasts.

[Corso]

Originally Posted by rousseau

I guess now I just have to see how long my ingenious fix lasts.

Just long enough for it to ruin a ride or puncher your finger!

Replace that cable!

or at least use silver solder, lot’s of flux and solder that sucker solid.

[DavidC]

Ignore the pessimism! I’ve done that “cut the stray cable strand below the pinch bolt” many times. Never had any problems! Good job thinking of the hack and employing it!

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by Corso

Just long enough for it to ruin a ride or puncher your finger!

This is my town bike, so I'm not doing any "rides" per se. In fact, I just got back from a trip to the supermarket loaded down with cartons of almond milk and sundry other comestibles. Rode like a charm.

I even had a carton of eggs stuffed into one saddlebag. Went over some bumpy asphalt, but no cracks. You could say that, erm...the cracks did not produce cracks.

[Drmojo]

Originally Posted by azrider

After all these years I've learned:

CO2 = finite

Pumps = infinite

old's cool