sounds like it wasn't such a great day....

Ryan:

sounds like it wasn't such a great day....

let's just ignore the two finals and two papers i have to do tomorrow...

When I TRIED to convert a shitty mountain bike I was trying to install the lockring but I threaded it the wrong way and poof.

i took off my wheels today and went out to a job interview with the quick-release closed but didn't re-engage the brakes.

not a big deal for most people here, but... it was a geared road bike. luckily i did a fred flinstone kind of stop a couple blocks from my home.

two crank sets toast, cause i stripped the extractor threads. one, I had just gotten in a big fight with an ex girlfriend, and was upset and distracted while working on my bike. Bad state of mind for wrenching. I forgot to take out the crank arm bolt before trying to extract the crank arm. Turns out that doesnt work so well. One nice oldschool shimano 600 crankset down the tube.The other one.... was a shitty origin8 "track" crank. not really my fault. just a POS crank. I guess I could have gotten the extractor on there a little tighter before I tried to pull the arm off.

sometimes no matter what you do those extractor threads just give way. I have been pretty close to losing a my mind on that issue a few times.

clean the threads really well so the extractor bottoms out, and make sure to remove any washers, they will prevent full thread engagement. Be sure and use a wrench to tight the extractor all the way down (20 ft lbs or so)

An arm is really stuck on the taper tight, and seems like it would pull threads if you used a cheater bar, tension up the extractor and use a smooth face hammer on the flat of the crank arm where the BB spindle is...that "shock" can cause the taper to release the spindle.

words...yap yap talk talk

I had a bike that my room mate found in the trash. An old Bianchi road frame. One of the seatstays broke, and the other was dangerously close to cracking when I finally discovered what the "tink" sound was that came from my bike.
I was in dire need of a bike that wouldn't impale my legs at any given moment, so I went out and picked up an SE bike, without doing much research, or even really examining the bike (I was in a really bad mood, and it was the cheapest bike I could find on short notice.) Well, the bike has an AMERICAN bottom bracket. Yes, American. Like, one piece BMX/Beach Cruiser style bottom bracket. So, after kicking myself for making a dumb purchase, I order an adapter. The adapter comes, and I throw it in. No instructions came with the adapter, and, being quite the rookie when it came to anything involving the BB, I thought, as you crank, you want the tension to thread the bracket in. Looking at the bike, like you were riding it, I put the bracket with the L on it on the left side, and the bracket with the R on it on the right side. Put the bottom bracket in, and figured, sweet. All done.
I went on a ride the next day, with a few friends, and as we were heading down a hill, I started hearing funny noises. So, eventually, my bike starts to slow down, and the funny noise is getting less funny by the second. I look down, and my bottom bracket has unthreaded itself, and is pulling my chain ring into my frame. So, I make a call to my friend, he picks me up, and I take the bike home. I re-tighten everything, and think, okay, that worked.
The next day, there was a benefit ride, that I had a pretty big hand in. So, I take the bike, and we're riding in LA. Again, after a good distance, my chain ring starts rubbing. So, I'm thinking, "what the fuck." Did I not get it tight enough? I hand tighten it, and continue to do so till we get to the bicycle district, where they have the Bike Kitchen (a co-op volunteer bike repair center), and explain the situation to the guys there. After telling me my bike was stupid, they get a super knowledgeable guy to come over and check it out. After a few minutes, he tells me, you got the adapter in backwards. So, I pound those out, and then forget which side was which, and put them back in, the exact same way. SHIT! So I re-pound those out, switch them around, and finish putting my bike together before they closed. Two days of bicycle fail.
After that debacle, I ordered a new frame set, but that's a whole 'nother horror story in itself.

Teen Idol:

I had a bike that my room mate found in the trash. An old Bianchi road frame. One of the seatstays broke, and the other was dangerously close to cracking when I finally discovered what the "tink" sound was that came from my bike.
I was in dire need of a bike that wouldn't impale my legs at any given moment, so I went out and picked up an SE bike, without doing much research, or even really examining the bike (I was in a really bad mood, and it was the cheapest bike I could find on short notice.) Well, the bike has an AMERICAN bottom bracket. Yes, American. Like, one piece BMX/Beach Cruiser style bottom bracket. So, after kicking myself for making a dumb purchase, I order an adapter. The adapter comes, and I throw it in. No instructions came with the adapter, and, being quite the rookie when it came to anything involving the BB, I thought, as you crank, you want the tension to thread the bracket in. Looking at the bike, like you were riding it, I put the bracket with the L on it on the left side, and the bracket with the R on it on the right side. Put the bottom bracket in, and figured, sweet. All done.
I went on a ride the next day, with a few friends, and as we were heading down a hill, I started hearing funny noises. So, eventually, my bike starts to slow down, and the funny noise is getting less funny by the second. I look down, and my bottom bracket has unthreaded itself, and is pulling my chain ring into my frame. So, I make a call to my friend, he picks me up, and I take the bike home. I re-tighten everything, and think, okay, that worked.
The next day, there was a benefit ride, that I had a pretty big hand in. So, I take the bike, and we're riding in LA. Again, after a good distance, my chain ring starts rubbing. So, I'm thinking, "what the fuck." Did I not get it tight enough? I hand tighten it, and continue to do so till we get to the bicycle district, where they have the Bike Kitchen (a co-op volunteer bike repair center), and explain the situation to the guys there. After telling me my bike was stupid, they get a super knowledgeable guy to come over and check it out. After a few minutes, he tells me, you got the adapter in backwards. So, I pound those out, and then forget which side was which, and put them back in, the exact same way. SHIT! So I re-pound those out, switch them around, and finish putting my bike together before they closed. Two days of bicycle fail.
After that debacle, I ordered a new frame set, but that's a whole 'nother horror story in itself.

this happened to me at work once, same stiry but i figure it out before the riding point. those bb adapters are confusing!

seriously. i put the bb (there krysten) on wrong i was like i think the cups are wrong. my shop used to sell those se's. they sucked!

yo there aint no spellcheck on deez damn computers

yung jeezy pdx:

seriously. i put the bb (there krysten) on wrong i was like i think the cups are wrong. my shop used to sell those se's. they sucked!

Yeah, I still have it. I could have Craigs Listed it saying "FIXIE STARTER BIKE OMG FTW" but I would have felt bad. Haha. I'm bringing it with me to Portland as a back up/loaner bike. Either that, or I'm going to sell it for stupid cheap. The geometry on it however promotes barspinz with 700s. Super lax, almost road bike geo too. I wasn't too mad at how it rode, but the bottom bracket pretty much made me over it.

firefox is busted on these computers. i got 5 more hours at thsi job so im not sweatin it too hard.

Well, I'm putting a few different components on it, and making it fixed, instead of single speed. I did however get a better deal on it than $260 originally.... Plus the adaptor, and the crank set I'll put on will add a bit of value. It's actually not a bad bike to ride. No toe overlap, no fear of pedal striking, bar spinnable. It's a legitimately good starter bike, if you don't already know what you want. I learned a lot about what I wanted and what I didn't by riding it.

i installed a tire backwards

it SUCKED.
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YEAH DUDER, like no one in portland does but i snagged one, ROCK ON!

i can never remember which parts follow the "lefty loosie, righty tighty" rule. and if i flip my bike upside down to work, that makes it even harder for me to orient myself in any kind of space (though it IS a lot easier with my kilo than trek, one cross lever rather than brake hoods tells me which side is which, and also i no longer need to know which downtube shifter goes where, and whether going "down" in gear would be towards the top tube or towards the ceiling).

also - i can never remember if "shift down" means go into a smaller cog or larger cog without thinking bout it for like a minute.