Things I learned today...
03-28-07 | 08:07 PM
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Things I learned today...
1. A clean bike is infinitely more fun to ride than a nasty, dirty, scummy one.
2. After cleaning your bike, it's important to actually tighten your track-nuts down on the front wheel with a wrench rather than just with your fingers and then forgetting. Today while riding to class, I was hearing this disturbing klanking sound every time I went over a bump. Finally, I stopped and realized my fork had been bouncing up and down on the front axle! I narrowly avoided a painful face plant and the destruction of my practically new Soma Rush fork.
3. Soma toe-clips are the ****! I've entered a new world of skidding and security!
4. Spring-time rules!
2. After cleaning your bike, it's important to actually tighten your track-nuts down on the front wheel with a wrench rather than just with your fingers and then forgetting. Today while riding to class, I was hearing this disturbing klanking sound every time I went over a bump. Finally, I stopped and realized my fork had been bouncing up and down on the front axle! I narrowly avoided a painful face plant and the destruction of my practically new Soma Rush fork.
3. Soma toe-clips are the ****! I've entered a new world of skidding and security!
4. Spring-time rules!
03-29-07 | 09:12 AM
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[QUOTE=Igneous Faction]
2. After cleaning your bike, it's important to actually tighten your track-nuts down on the front wheel with a wrench rather than just with your fingers and then forgetting. Today while riding to class, I was hearing this disturbing klanking sound every time I went over a bump. Finally, I stopped and realized my fork had been bouncing up and down on the front axle! I narrowly avoided a painful face plant and the destruction of my practically new Soma Rush fork.
and this is why lawyer lips exist.
2. After cleaning your bike, it's important to actually tighten your track-nuts down on the front wheel with a wrench rather than just with your fingers and then forgetting. Today while riding to class, I was hearing this disturbing klanking sound every time I went over a bump. Finally, I stopped and realized my fork had been bouncing up and down on the front axle! I narrowly avoided a painful face plant and the destruction of my practically new Soma Rush fork.
and this is why lawyer lips exist.
03-29-07 | 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by genericbikedude
one of my new years resolutions was not only to use the term "huck" more often, but to "huck more **** at stuff"
Yes!
I dunno about you, but to me hucking something usually involves a sidearm throw while saying the word huck.
03-29-07 | 11:41 AM
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From: Gainesville, Florida
Bikes: Independent Fabrication Deluxe XT, Club Fuji Dura Ace... Specialized Stump Jumper, Trek 930, Cannondale M300... who knows what the cat will drag in next?
I thought huck was a cute word mountain bikers came up with.
03-29-07 | 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Igneous Faction
2. After cleaning your bike, it's important to actually tighten your track-nuts down on the front wheel with a wrench rather than just with your fingers and then forgetting. Today while riding to class, I was hearing this disturbing klanking sound every time I went over a bump. Finally, I stopped and realized my fork had been bouncing up and down on the front axle! I narrowly avoided a painful face plant and the destruction of my practically new Soma Rush fork.
