I seen a TV advert staring the track Cyclist, Chris Hoy.
Hes preparing and riding his bike. As well as eating breakfast cereal.

He seems to tighten his chainring bolts with an electric drill

I just use an allan key to tighten them.

Though one time I had built up a BMX and the chainring fell off it, when my freind was riding it to the shops. All the chainring bolts were in a line along the road.

So will I copy Chris and use a drill to tighten them.

I dont like his breakfast cereal though

You could use a torque wrench and do it up to the suggested settings. I've never had chainring bolts come undone doing them up by hand.

Ditto. Proper torque is achieved by hand. A bike-racer isn't necessarily a good mechanic.

Don't over torque them. They are not that difficult to break. His electric drill may be torque limited.

I found the advert on Youtube.

Oh yeah - I'm throwing out my hex-sockets and torque-wrench. I'm sold on that electric-drill!


(don't you believe that!)

I dont have a torque wrench, but my electric drill has torque setting from 1 to 8. Maybe I should calibrate these sttings.

What does Chuck Norris use to tighten them?

But I've been thinking a lot about breakfast lately and that was what got me to this thread. My theory is that we need something like dog food, but for us. Just a big bag that will keep indefinitely in the tool shed, and anytime you want, you can just scoop out a bowl, add beer and it would be ready to eat.

I'm going to be working on the recipe in the kitchen....

If it looks like he's using a drill, it's almost certainly an electric driver with an adjustable torque setting. He'd twist the fasteners right off with a regular drill.

Remember it's an advert. If he was a true Scotsman he'd be eating porridge.

I don't fool with tightening chain ring bolts. I have had to do it in the past when one gets loose and there is a chirp. But tightening the bolts on a weekly or even monthly basis should be ample. Doing it daily seems like over kill.

The whole thing sounds like a competitive athelete's ritual to me.

Don't want your chainring bolts to come loose?... forget the drill or electric drive, torque them up in the correct sequence by hand with a torque wrench and use Locktite.

Quaker oats don't pay him for advertising--Remember the other side of being a scotsman.

I started eating bran cereal with berries regularly for breakfast a year or so ago. I feel it helped me jump start weight loss. The fiber helps keep me full throughout the morning. I was 228 about 18 months ago, now I'm 168.

Chuck Norris doesn't have to torque his chainring bolts; he just cuts his eyes at them and they freeze up in fear.

What was he squatting 585? 675? Holy crap.

Don't take bicycle maintenance advice from advertising copy writers.

Purina Biker Chow....HMMMM??? Not a bad idea, LOL!