Old 07-06-05 | 07:50 AM
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Bikes: Surly Steamroller, Specialized Hardrock, Lynskey Cooper

define tacoed: a tale of why i hate security guards

so ive been bring my bike to work everyday for the past week and a half....and every day they have me show id and run my lock through the metal detector. i always take it to the basement and lock it in the store room....every day i go down the stairs...today one of them followed me and begain yelling that i had better not take the elevator....as i waited soemdbody to clear the door to the stairs....he begain shouting that i could not block the stairs with my bike....when i asked what to do..he sent me to the escaltor..."my wheel could get stuck" i informed him..."take the escalator" he bellowed back....so i did

and lo and behold....the escalato ws about 2 cm to narrow for my wheel to be sideways...as it inevitably turned, wedging itself between the two sides...by the time i managed to pull it out...the to opposite sides of the wheel had beeen bent in toward each other...bah

it is only slightly....but when i spin the wheel.....i can see it wobbling like crazy....is this "tacoed?" with the two sides bent in?

more importantly...can it be fixed....or is a pysical bending in from each side too much of a catastrophe for a truing to fix?

aiyah

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