i started a new job a week or two ago at a place around the corner from a friend's house. he leaves for work shortly after i leave from work, then we ride around downtown for a bit. maybe 2 or three times a week. maybe more.

every time we do this, sometime happens with his bike. 3 flats in 1 week, 2 cases of his cog slipping, the nipple from a (previously) broken spoke coming loose and bouncing around in his rim the whole ride. or just getting lost from each other in traffic for the afternoon.

yesterday--his crank broke. pedaling down the street, on an empty block, and i hear this weird scraping noise coming from his bike, and see one foot hanging like he was coasting. confused, i looked and saw his foot was attached to the pedal and the broken half of the crank was dragging on the ground.

i think, for his sake, we have to stop this madness. did it again today with new cranks on his bike and what do you know...the cog slips. damn.

or you could show him how to tighten his cog and lockring, and make sure he has air in his tires.

time for a new bike!!!

Vouch! LOL

i actually don't know how to tighten a cog and lockring. i mean, without over-tightening. i've never had to do it, so i've never had to learn. his roommate keeps tightening it for him, but...i guess it isn't working.

i just thought it funny that all this **** happens not when he's riding home from work, or when doing errands, but when he's riding with me. i'm a curse...

methinks the guy's roomate is a lousy mechanic. He needs to learn to work on his bike or pay someone who knows how.

I should stop being a snarky bastard though, this is just asking for a flat.

This story needs a Hitchcock/Shalamayan/Sterlingesque twist at the end...

Like the guy is really you, or something.

yeah, i agree that he should just take it to a shop. seems he'd rather not wake up early to go to a shop.

twist ending? his bike likes mine, so much that when our bikes are near, his ASPLODE!

F**K Yeah! That's whatI'mtalkin' bout!

maaaaan

okay so i am really out of it and just made a post with nothing but 'maaan' in it.

so what i was THINKING when i made that post was, sounds like he needs a new bike

yeah, he's building it up piece by piece now. bastard makes almost twice as much money as i do.

yeah at least he dident eat it Same thing happened to me but when the chain threw and wraped around the rear wheel it threw me into a skid over the bars i went.Its cool though now i got a rocking campy bb and some sugino75s

campy bb and sugino 75s here, too. let's hug.

but yeah, that chain in the rear wheel thing sounds like...well...total ****.

did he buy that teddy bear on ebay?

all i can say is....


?

https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6056014456

i ****ing feel your pain. I get off a 12 hour workday tonite, get home and lo and behold UPS has dropped off my new shorty stem for my dirt jump/ freeride hardtail. So of course, I get all excited and install the bastard then decide that I just HAVE to go test it out. I get outside, throw down a couple manuals and then go for a monster bunny hop over a recycling container. Yeah, my ****ing chain breaks and gets sucked into the rear wheel. Next thing I know I'm picking bits of yellow plastic out of my teeth and the mangled flesh that used to be my hands. ****ing chains. Why can't they build a ****ing bike without a ****ing chain. I can't even get drunk right now for the pain because I have to work at 6am tommorrow. Grrrr....

yeah, but isn't he on his way into work on these rides? with all this bike trouble, he's probably late a lot, and so will soon lose his job. that should level the playing field.

that is a little freaky.

I agree, but just goes to show you that people will buy anything on eBay. $910 with 62 bids

I heard it was made in Japan by a former framebuilder from 3Rensho.

Sounds like you both need to learn to fix your bikes.

or let the bear do it for us

comic gold.

i just read that whole story

****s intense