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@moz
That’s a lot of horsepower!
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@oheso
Had that cable issue on older Shimano brifters. I think there was a sharp edge in there. I eventually replaced with bar-end shifters
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2.
I tend to mash more than I spin, and I was even worse about that when I was younger.
One day, starting from a standstill, standing on the pedal as usual and probably placing too much force on the handlebars - they snapped.I walked in with the pieces to the LBS and just asked for a new handlebar as if it was just another Wednesday.
As an aside - which doesn't fit the question because firstly it didn't happen to me (I just happened to be nearby and saw it), and secondly _technically_ could be described as a "flat", was someone in a (somewhat slow) social ride who had the front tube blowout with such vigor that the tube somehow managed get stuck between the wheel and the brakes or fork (or both), locking up the wheel. We might just have been going slow enough that the rider managed to avoid getting literally thrown over the handlebars, but he did come down hard in any case.
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@moz
That’s a lot of horsepower!
@lopta @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite@dgodon a friend thought I was just careless until he got a power meter. The rotor on his wind trainer exploded at about 1300W. It was exciting!
Bikes mysteriously failing for no reason when I rode them made more sense to him after that.
Also explains me considering 150kg on the load bike perfectly reasonable.
Luckily I'm older and wiser now. Or fatter and less fit. Same same.
Mozbike: my loadbikes in action
how I use the bikes that I build, and what other people do with them
(moz.geek.nz)
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@silvermoon82 @yantor3d @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite yikes, seems like some quality control issues with the assembly and/or parts
@dgodon @oheso @silvermoon82 @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite In my case, I had just had it in the shop to install a range extender, which requires you drop the motor. They might not have fully tightened the screws when putting everything back together.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale
A2: Broke my saddle rails last year.The way leather saddles (like the brooks one) are built it will loose tension and come in pièces right there under you backside
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2. Man, I am so *bummed* to hear that happened on a Brompton. I had a Brompton built in the '90s, but the build quality on it was so good and I really like smaller manufacturers like they are (used to be?).
The Ti-Trikes cargo quadricycle had a few fails...bad QA. The batteries shipped having difficulty holding a charge, for one. I can pedal it a little acoustically, but it's a bad fail to have when you have osteoarthritis in the knees. #BikeNite
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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite #BikeNite
A2. While bombing down a rocky trail, a part of one of the front cantilever brakes on my '93 MTB fell off, and I didn't notice til miles later. Turns out old XTR cantilever parts are *very* hard to find now, so we went back the next day (me on a different bike) to re-ride the trail v e r y s l o w l y, and, amazingly, found the cantilever (thanks to my eagle-eyed husband).
@akkana @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite Thanks for the reminder to put my old XTR groupset up for sale. Includes v-brakes rather than cantilevers
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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2. Man, I am so *bummed* to hear that happened on a Brompton. I had a Brompton built in the '90s, but the build quality on it was so good and I really like smaller manufacturers like they are (used to be?).
The Ti-Trikes cargo quadricycle had a few fails...bad QA. The batteries shipped having difficulty holding a charge, for one. I can pedal it a little acoustically, but it's a bad fail to have when you have osteoarthritis in the knees. #BikeNite
@meganL @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite I think/hope the G line is working through its first manufacturing hiccups (they had a hinge problem to that is fixed now)
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@meganL @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite I think/hope the G line is working through its first manufacturing hiccups (they had a hinge problem to that is fixed now)
@otfrom @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite One of those times where being a "pioneer user" doesn't pay off.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite
#bikeNite
#bikeNiteA
A2.
I had a pedal just outright fall off. Fortunately I'd just set off and was less than a hundred meters from home.
It was a Brompton folding pedal, that had a very specific spacer, that I didn't know I had to go look for until it was far too late.
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@oheso @nothingfuture @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite
Haha, yup. Wild! I've also broken a saddle rail, and once had a seatpost start to rip in half (steel so at least it didn't just shatter! I blame the person who had clamped a pedicab clamp to it too aggressively). Over time I think we just accumulate every single possible type of failure, with enough riding!
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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2: the first Shitmano 8 speed hub that failed after 5000km was unexpected. Warranty replacement.
The replacement also failing after 5000km was less unexpected. No warranty despite being inside the 2 year promised warrenty period.
When the third one failed also after 5000km it was 100% expected.
A Rohloff would have been cheaper.
@moz @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite I am experiencing similar with my Enviolo NuVinci 360 box losing gear ratio. No warranty left, 5000 km.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2. During a multi-day trip away from home, two spokes on the rear wheel snapped. It happened to me again afterward.
Went to my local shop to get it completely re-spoked. Since than the gearing on my Enviolo 360 hasn’t been working properly. Three different bike shops haven’t been able to fix it yet. -
@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2. My very first failure, a long time ago, was a cotter pin on a crank. I can't have been more than 8 or 9 and I had no idea what had happened. It was my first bike, rented for me by my mother for the summer, and I was scared to mention it, so I rode around going clonk, clonk, clonk for a few days until one of my friends noticed and asked his dad to fix it.
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@ajft @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite
Yikes!
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@ascentale@sfba.social @xtaran@chaos.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A2: May not be totally unexpected, but my saddle suddenly tilted backwards while I was riding relatively fast. Sure scared the heck out of me! As it turned out, I hadn't tightened the saddle nearly as much as I was supposed to (5 Nm vs 12 Nm)... #BikeNite #MastoBikes #BikeTooter
@daihard @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite
A3. Yes, that's happened to me a few times when I have ridden too fast over a hard-to-see small kerb without lifting myself in time. It's quite close to home though, so I can usually bang the nose of the saddle down and get back OK.
Edit: typo.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale
A2:Brand new one for me this week:
in a nutshell (long story, else)
lower idler on rear derailleur seized up. the tension idler.
on this derailleur, it's a sealed bearing cartidge style. Not bushings.
Too much winter road treatment slop. bearing froze.
This was a 'full-stop, cannot continue' failure. Took me a while to figure it out.
thankfully, the weather was nice & sunny.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2. Domino effect, had to laugh abt this personal misfortune recently so have one on me too ...
[.|.] - prev outing - chain-ring guard came loose, removed for future refixing. Forgot, then mislaid it...
[:|:] - first steep section on next outing, shoe-lace gets snagged on top chain-wheel sprocket, forcing stop.
[:.|:.] - while retying, still straddling bike, it begins to fall, I grab handlebar hard in unusual place - happens to be the battery V meter. Nasty smell and no assistance.
[::|::] - ride the bike back to base, unladen, so decide to take a shorter more scenic trail. This involves riding over fallen trees. Small branch snags in wheel and trashes mudguard. Limp rest of way back.
[:.:|:.:] already had enough, I give-up the ride on the only non-rain day for a while, eat rations and surrender to another trip in rain another day [see A1]
[:::|:::] you get this
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite: Ouch, 44 replies on Q2. That will take a while to read through all of them. 🤪
