Comments on: Victory

By: Chainrings Ripped My Flesh » [sic]

Chainrings Ripped My Flesh » [sic] — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:00:52 +0000

[...] may very well have saved me worse hurts down the road. See, when I put the spare 170mm cranks on (after the bottom bracket incident last weekend) I only put one chainring on it. Trouble is, it’s a crank designed to carry two chain rings [...]

By: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers « Bikinginla’s Weblog

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers « Bikinginla’s Weblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:10:21 +0000

[...] attempts to educate a driver on the rights of turning left. Will Campbell declares victory over a vanquished bottom bracket. Science Daily and the L.A. Times both report on a study that suggests cutting of your nose to save [...]

By: bikinginla

bikinginla — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:30:58 +0000

Thanks for capturing a moment any of us who’ve wrenched our own bikes have probably experienced. With my last bike, I built my own wheels — and rode them for almost 20 years — and stripped it down and rebuilt it from the ground up more time than I can count.

My new bike, I just take to the shop. There’s just something about dismantling a bike in the living room, and throwing a massive temper tantrum when the parts don’t fit right, that doesn’t seem to be conducive to a happy marriage.

By: frazgo

frazgo — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:26:07 +0000

Love the story. Been there done that many a time. The “bigger version of the tool” always works for me. Hammer and bar is only when you know you’ll have to get a new one if you continue. Learned that the hard way and now ask first “do you really want to buy a new one of those doo-hickey’s when this one breaks?” The answer is usually “no”.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:17:11 +0000

Dramatic? Me??? Hell, the thing had taken on the air of a Greek tragedy! I’m even noticing this morning residual tenderness in my chin that I’d forgotten had come into contact with the bike during some point.

And oh I went the hammer route for sure, Gary. I banged away on the wrench like my name was Maxwell and then I even banged on the BB’s spindles hoping for a miracle.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:59:29 +0000

Getting a little dramatic, eh? Well done on persevering. Thing about stuff like this, you never know if it’s just the next little effort that will do the job, so you CAN’T quit anyway. I was half expecting you to go after it with a hammer and chisel at some point.
Would a little anti seize be appropriate to prevent this in the future, or would that make the lock ring come loose by itself?