Comment on spoke cards
07-07-06, 12:16 PM
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Comment on spoke cards
Like many of you, I love a fg bike free of the extraneous (computers, bottle cages, mirrors, cable guides,etc.) Frame, wheels, stem, steapost and drive train get my juices flowing. So help me out here: Why would anyone stick cards between the spokes of his or her otherwise clean-looking rig, gunking up the look.
07-07-06, 12:21 PM
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07-07-06, 12:25 PM
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Theft deterrent.
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07-07-06, 12:26 PM
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Better question:
Why would anyone steal a spoke card.
Every one I have owned/earned has been stolen off the bike.
Twice the hamfisted meatbeaters broke my spoke to get it off.
Why would anyone steal a spoke card.
Every one I have owned/earned has been stolen off the bike.
Twice the hamfisted meatbeaters broke my spoke to get it off.
07-07-06, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by powers2b
Better question:
Why would anyone steal a spoke card.
Every one I have owned/earned has been stolen off the bike.
Twice the hamfisted meatbeaters broke my spoke to get it off.
Why would anyone steal a spoke card.
Every one I have owned/earned has been stolen off the bike.
Twice the hamfisted meatbeaters broke my spoke to get it off.
*tries to imagine what powers2b would do if he saw one of his cards in someone else's wheel*
07-07-06, 03:32 PM
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*tries to imagine what powers2b would do if he saw one of his cards in someone else's wheel*
07-07-06, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by powers2b
Better question:
Why would anyone steal a spoke card.
Every one I have owned/earned has been stolen off the bike.
Twice the hamfisted meatbeaters broke my spoke to get it off.
Why would anyone steal a spoke card.
Every one I have owned/earned has been stolen off the bike.
Twice the hamfisted meatbeaters broke my spoke to get it off.
Why would you keep putting them on after that?
07-07-06, 10:33 PM
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If you don't want your spoke cards to get stolen, just put a tiny bead of superglue on one side (this way the spokes can still move a little) where it touches the spokes. To take them off you just need an x-acto knife and some patience.
A little extreme, but who cares.
A little extreme, but who cares.
07-07-06, 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Smorgasgeorge
If you don't want your spoke cards to get stolen, just put a tiny bead of superglue on one side (this way the spokes can still move a little) where it touches the spokes. To take them off you just need an x-acto knife and some patience.
A little extreme, but who cares.
A little extreme, but who cares.
I've had a similar problem when i tried to deturr a thief by using a lockring seatpost, the one that use a unique key instead of an allen wrench, on my bike. Turns out the thief really wanted my seatpost that he somehow mangle my seattube, and pryed the binder off the frame, and slid the seat binder up and off, and slid out the seatpost. Took about 7 hours of hammering to get my seattube round enough to acccept the seatpost.
07-11-06, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by roughrider504
Frame pump through the wheel, then take the pump and card back after? Just a guess
Two tacos and a bent frame, to go.
07-11-06, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by daveed
Why would anyone stick cards between the spokes of his or her otherwise clean-looking rig, gunking up the look.
07-11-06, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by wangster
Isn't the OP a question and not a comment?
07-11-06, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by genericbikedude
spokes break because of poorly tensioned wheels.
spoke cards fall out because of poorly tensioned wheels.
just sayin.
spoke cards fall out because of poorly tensioned wheels.
just sayin.
Spokes break when meatbeater uses a tool to spread tensioned spokes enough to get card out.
Spokes always break, tensioned or not, when I see one of my cards in another wheel.
Just replyin.
