Lash ups or ingenious repairs?

[pawsmcgraw]

Having seen the "get you home jockey wheel" lash up in the bike pics, has anyone else got any good lash up pics?
I came to see this in the outback of NZ, spokes failing, no shop for 250kms and only cable ties to keep the bike going.Quite clever i thought!

[PantsoftheShandy]

That is very clever

[mat205125]

Where's the picture taken? Looks like some lovely rolling hills to ride around on.

[Xenocide]

mat205125 said:

Where's the picture taken? Looks like some lovely rolling hills to ride around on.

Ooh yeah looks like the windows XP wallpaper.

Very clever. Done the normal stuff your tyre with grass thing.

[pawsmcgraw]

mat205125 said:

Where's the picture taken? Looks like some lovely rolling hills to ride around on.

In the middle of Molesworth Station,South Island NZ

[mat205125]

pawsmcgraw said:

mat205125 said:

Where's the picture taken? Looks like some lovely rolling hills to ride around on.

In the middle of Molesworth Station,South Island NZ

Gotta get out of this country ASAP

[Parrot of Doom]

This happened to me on a ride last year. Twisted chain, bent derailleur, fked hangar.

I fixed it by removing the bad links, bending the derailleur back a bit, and having only about 3 gears to choose from

Expensive ride that

[pawsmcgraw]

It needs a clean, and a bit of manipulation

[P-Jay]

Still got a zip-tie holding the cage on my spanking new X9 Supershort cage derailer together. First day out, shifted into first to just ride up to the trail centre for lunch and the cage fouled the cassette and split it. Fitted a smaller cassette now and fixed the cause but the importer wants £50 for a replacement cage. It’s two bits of plastic FFS! Doesn't even include jockey wheels! The whole thing was only £70 (not to mention the whole derailler is on sale for £50 on Wiggle now) Zip-tie just became a permanent repair!

[rhinochopig]

P-Jay said:

Still got a zip-tie holding the cage on my spanking new X9 Supershort cage derailer together. First day out, shifted into first to just ride up to the trail centre for lunch and the cage fouled the cassette and split it. Fitted a smaller cassette now and fixed the cause but the importer wants £50 for a replacement cage. It’s two bits of plastic FFS! Doesn't even include jockey wheels! The whole thing was only £70 (not to mention the whole derailler is on sale for £50 on Wiggle now) Zip-tie just became a permanent repair!

Check ebay, you can get third party carbon bits for much less.

[P-Jay]

rhinochopig said:

P-Jay said:

Still got a zip-tie holding the cage on my spanking new X9 Supershort cage derailer together. First day out, shifted into first to just ride up to the trail centre for lunch and the cage fouled the cassette and split it. Fitted a smaller cassette now and fixed the cause but the importer wants £50 for a replacement cage. It’s two bits of plastic FFS! Doesn't even include jockey wheels! The whole thing was only £70 (not to mention the whole derailler is on sale for £50 on Wiggle now) Zip-tie just became a permanent repair!

Check ebay, you can get third party carbon bits for much less.

Thanks, didn't think of fleabay!

[Nick_F]

Brand-new wire-bead Fire XC Pros won't come off 717 rims without tyrelevers.

XT QR levers make pretty good tyrelevers.

Note, however, that if you remove your shorts to use them to stop the levers from wrecking the rims and vice-versa then you may get odd looks from passing dogwalkers...

[SkinnyBoy]

When I was riding years ago, i blew the oil seals on my front forks. I lashed the brake brace to the headstock with my socks!

Whenever we used to go riding we would take all the tools we needed and split them up between the riders so we didn't have to carry all the weight.