Well while polishing my pro raider yesterday , I must have gotten a metal chip on my cloth and now I have nice fine scratches all over the top tube.Lets here your stories , drop a cresent wrench on nicely powdered frame , wife ran it over , knock over a row of bikes at Rockford?

Joe

Latest doh! moment - I just bought another frame and fork....

doh!!!!!!

a good one for me was about 2 years ago...on my way to the Elysian Park show and BBQ, my Hutch Bear Trap pedal bounced all over the new powder coat of my OM Flyer...I didn't realize it had happened till I got to the park...went to pull it out of the truck and said "son of a !@#$%^%"

Tony

Last summer I had the lbs install a beartrap headset in my Hutch Cruiser. We didnt check the diameter before trying, and cracked the chrome around the head tube. It was the worst sound I have ever heard. I am still bummed about that.

* left-hand threads...need I say more.

* cut my (waited for just the right part color-matched) brake cable at the wrong spot...needless to say I cut it on the short side and we all know they don't stretch.

* What do you mean I shouldn't put an aluminum part in oxalic acid?

* told my buddy I would gladly restore his old schwinn stingray...when I saw it was held together by rust molocules I knew I was in trouble.

* spent way too much time trying to remove chainring bolts that kept spinning before I remembered I had bought the Park chainring bolt tool a month ago.

* this one REALLY HURT: polishing a chainring on my bench grinder with the guard off...it caught in the buffing wheel and before I knew what was happening I felt like I got hit in the nose with a baseball bat. Three perfect holes across my nose; bled like a stuck pig and turned a lovely shade of black and blue. Not to mention I had to tell the story a hundred times to explain the bandage.


That's enough for me....

oh wait here's the biggest one of all...

* told my wife how much I REALLY paid for a bike once.

"* told my wife how much I REALLY paid for a bike once."

Dumbazz.

Yeah I would rather get stuck in the face with a chainring instead of a kitchen knife!!

Nbl 49a

Having a few too many drinks then getting on ebay

It must have been about 1984 and a friend of mine said he'd like to trade his Proline frame and forks for my PK and landing gear. I'd been thinking about a change so I said OK. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

D'oh.

It didn't take long to figure out what a bonehead I was. Fortunately about four or five months later he decided he wanted to swap back (he was a big dude and the PK was a little small for him). I was very happy.

About three months later on my last day of high school, I rode my PK to class as I often did (I only had a 2 hour english exam) only find gone when I came out.

D'OH! D'OH! D'OH!

[ November 02, 2006, 12:50 AM: Message edited by: JohnnyRingo ]

It was 1982 I was on my torker with shimano dx hubs and brakes, ya gold ano, with zrims and hutch bars. Well we are camping at Bulls Island on the Deleware River. If any of you know this spot there is a Wing Dam on the river. We were riding out to the middle of the dam and jumping off into the water only about 3 feet deep where we werer landing, after about 5 or so jumps i got gready. Tryed a 360 off. and got cought in the current. Got sucked down to the deep part of the dam. I new i was when i had tried for the third time to throw my bike into the shallow area and looked up. All i saw over my head and my bike was water!!! I let the bike go, swam to the serface and when ohh !@$#*. Luckly a friend of mine was a swimmer for school and retrieved it for me. It was down there about an hour. I thought it was lost forever. Needless to say when ever i do a lake or river jump now i make sure my bike will float first!!

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I did something really dumb yesterday...


My kids (4 and 8) were itching for something to do so I thought I'd let them ride their bikes in a huge vacant parking lot nearby. I usually just bring my trials bike to ride with them as I can practice my balance while they ride, but this time I brought the ELF I just finished rebuilding.


While they were riding I started cranking out a few sprints and was pushing it pretty hard. I was feeling good and having fun.

On the next pass, I was hammering as hard as my 40 year old legs will go when I almost crashed my brains out...just as I was mid stomp at full speed my drivetrain went full slack, this threw my weight to the side and I did a few wild bar swaps. All I could picture was turning myself into bloody hamburger in front of my little ones. Somehow I stayed upright and got it stopped.

I thought I had broken my new chain, but it was actually my own stupidity....

When I built the bike I guess I didn't tighten the rear axle nuts like I was building a racebike, just snugged 'em up enough for puttin' around the neighborhood, and the hard pedal stroked moved the axle up in the dropouts enough that the chain skipped off the freewheel.


I guess the moral of this is if you're going to ride hard, make sure your bike is set up for it. I learned my lesson and maybe my stupidity will keep somebody else from getting hurt.

[ December 18, 2006, 10:08 AM: Message edited by: eastcoaststeve ]

I got one....I was working on my Champion and I had put hair spray in the grips, an old trick to keep grips from slipping off...well I went to watch sunset and went to jump a curb and the left grip came off in mid air....I did everything BUT crash. Hyper extended my left knee but it could have been MUCH worse, I almost hit a pole. My knee is forever messed up.......always let the hair spray to dry for at least a day. 47 going stupidly on 16.

The day about 5-10 years ago when my Mom told me she didn't have room in the tool room for my vintage (and still in excellent condition w/ lots of exotric parts) P.K. Ripper, and that se'd have to put it out back under the deck i f I didn't come pick it up.

I didn't, and now it's going to cost me to restore.

Followed closely by the day I let her get rid of my stacks of BMXA's, and all of my racing gear... Haro leathers, Bell moto 3, etc., etc.