Originally Posted by
GamblerGORD53
On my first tour a muddy road clogged my front fender. Some digging then I got mad and kicked the fender. It broke and was tied with a shoelace the next 2 months.
I've done dozens of kludges for 50 years. Made stuff out of metal mart and road kill metal...
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My tour bike tool chest was a thermos covered in CF, with the hanger that was a handle picked out of a pile of bar-b-que that fell off a moving truck.
The rack mount on my CCM was 1/4" plate alu found on a highway.
my last five baseball type hats have been found along one 10 mile stretch of highway.
my garage has almost a complete truck mudflap floor... two more should finish it...
the best bikes in my boneyard are covered with a rollup awning that ripped loose from some passing motorhome once... i put a large trampoline mat over the top of the awning to hold it down.. it was a curb alert find, and the d-rings make it extra-heavy.
my favorite adj. wrench, a 15" Diamond brand, was found in the middle of that same stretch of highway that provides my hats...
i spotted ANOTHER hat while driving home today... if it's still there on Wednesday, it's MINE.. i'll give the owner a day or two to retrieve it.
i'm salvaging old Oregonian Newspaper tubes to build a handlebar storage rack.
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