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Grimlock 09-25-05 12:08 PM

Remember kids: Pay attention!
 
So I was putting a new cog on yesterday and a neighbour came by for a few minutes to talk. I didn't have anywhere handy to put the old one so I just screwed it onto the freewheel-less freewheel side of my hub. I tightened everything up and put the wheel back on.
I hop on to see if 45x16 is really that much different than 45x14. I got up to a good speed and tried to skid. I felt the cog slip more than a little bit and figured that it just wasn't tight enough in the first place. No big deal. I'll just ride home and really crank the sucker down. I applied backpressure but instead of slowing down, I got NO resistance. I stopped pedalling and thought two things: Great, I just stripped my new hub; secondly, how am I supposed to stop this thing? Luckily, I live on a street with only occasional traffic so I had time to carefully stick my shoe onto the back tire.
When I finally got off 100m later, I looked at my hub I realised that I hadn't stripped my hub but rather I chained up the freewheel side by accident and it had unthreaded itself when I tried to skid. As I walked the block back to my house, my neighbour just laughed at me and promised to tell everyone she new.
The moral of the story is to watch what you are doing and not to ride barefoot.

HereNT 09-25-05 12:49 PM

I'd ride barefoot if I had cleats installed on my feet....

boots 09-25-05 01:08 PM


Originally Posted by HereNT
I'd ride barefoot if I had cleats installed on my feet....

oh good god that's a good idea...

icithecat 09-25-05 01:51 PM


Originally Posted by HereNT
I'd ride barefoot if I had cleats installed on my feet....

Ooh Ooh.
I have a Swiss Army knife. I'll install them for you.
I have a bic lighter for sterilizing also.

Hslater 09-25-05 01:56 PM

I'd only get the feet-cleats if they were recessed, but I'm not sure my foot is tall enough.

cabana 4 life 09-25-05 02:58 PM

i always thought it would be funny to get cleats tattooed on the bottom of my feet.

jitensha! 09-25-05 04:38 PM

the moral of this story: double-fixed hubs are your friends.

Grimlock 09-25-05 05:07 PM


Originally Posted by jitensha_de_go!
the moral of this story: double-fixed hubs are your friends.

That would be nice. The guy who built my bike was moving across the country at the end of the month but he was too good to get someone else to do it, so I settled.

Now the question is would FeetCleats© come with some sort of replacement toe adapter for when mine fall off due to frostbite sometime around the second week in December? Would I have to pay extra or is it covered under warranty?

HereNT 09-25-05 05:23 PM

Actually, the toes falling off from frostbite is an added benefit - it saves you precious grams above and beyond what you save from not wearing shoes :D

dustinlikewhat 09-25-05 08:36 PM

I heard cutting your nails real short can cut up to 1.5 grams! and showering can remove up to .5 grams! Who knew hygeine could make you faster?


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