WR: Beautiful bonehead move

Andrew Thorne

My bike felt kind of weirdly lumpy as I rode up the street to the trailhead.
After about ten minutes riding I have a flat - "damn these piece of shit IRC
tubes, I just replaced this the other night", I'm thinking as I pull off the
tire, and run my hand around inside to find whatever sharp object might still
be stuck in the tire. And I find.....

A bright blue tire lever. In the tire.

Note to self: drink beer AFTER fixing bike. Not before.

-Andrew

S o r n i

Andrew Thorne wrote:
> My bike felt kind of weirdly lumpy as I rode up the street to the
> trailhead. After about ten minutes riding I have a flat - "damn these
> piece of shit IRC tubes, I just replaced this the other night", I'm
> thinking as I pull off the tire, and run my hand around inside to
> find whatever sharp object might still be stuck in the tire. And I
> find.....
>
> A bright blue tire lever. In the tire.
>
> Note to self: drink beer AFTER fixing bike. Not before.

Exxxccceellllleeeennnnnnttttttt.

Bill "J. Montgomery" S.

Craig Brossman

Andrew Thorne wrote:

> My bike felt kind of weirdly lumpy as I rode up the street to the trailhead.
> After about ten minutes riding I have a flat - "damn these piece of shit IRC
> tubes, I just replaced this the other night", I'm thinking as I pull off the
> tire, and run my hand around inside to find whatever sharp object might still
> be stuck in the tire. And I find.....
>
> A bright blue tire lever. In the tire.
>
> Note to self: drink beer AFTER fixing bike. Not before.
>
> -Andrew

That is too funny. Perhaps beer should come with some sort of warning,
but I can't think of it at the moment.

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado
(remove ".nospam" to reply)

MattB

Craig Brossman wrote:
> Andrew Thorne wrote:
>
>> My bike felt kind of weirdly lumpy as I rode up the street to the
>> trailhead. After about ten minutes riding I have a flat - "damn
>> these piece of shit IRC tubes, I just replaced this the other
>> night", I'm thinking as I pull off the tire, and run my hand around
>> inside to find whatever sharp object might still be stuck in the
>> tire. And I find.....
>>
>> A bright blue tire lever. In the tire.
>>
>> Note to self: drink beer AFTER fixing bike. Not before.
>>
>> -Andrew
>
> That is too funny. Perhaps beer should come with some sort of warning,
> but I can't think of it at the moment.

....and since there isn't one now, I think AT may have some good lawsuit
ammo!

Matt (who to sue, who to sue...)

Andrew Thorne

>
>...and since there isn't one now, I think AT may have some good lawsuit
>ammo!
>

Hard to tell if I should go after Park Tool, or Boston Brewing Co...

-A

P e t e F a g e r l i n

On 13 Apr 2004 14:51:22 GMT, andrewthorne01@aol.comnospam (Andrew
Thorne) wrote:

>My bike felt kind of weirdly lumpy as I rode up the street to the trailhead.
>After about ten minutes riding I have a flat - "damn these piece of shit IRC
>tubes, I just replaced this the other night", I'm thinking as I pull off the
>tire, and run my hand around inside to find whatever sharp object might still
>be stuck in the tire. And I find.....
>
>A bright blue tire lever. In the tire.
>
>Note to self: drink beer AFTER fixing bike. Not before.

Also watch the drinking during fixing part.

In the midst of my January AZ I had to replace a piece of shit Easton
handlebar, install new cranks and BB and install new pedals.

Cranks: fine
Pedals: fine
BB: fine
Handlebars: fine (after installing brake levers on wrong sides the
first time around)

MattB

P e t e F a g e r l i n wrote:
> On 13 Apr 2004 14:51:22 GMT, andrewthorne01@aol.comnospam (Andrew
> Thorne) wrote:
>
>> My bike felt kind of weirdly lumpy as I rode up the street to the
>> trailhead. After about ten minutes riding I have a flat - "damn
>> these piece of shit IRC tubes, I just replaced this the other
>> night", I'm thinking as I pull off the tire, and run my hand around
>> inside to find whatever sharp object might still be stuck in the
>> tire. And I find.....
>>
>> A bright blue tire lever. In the tire.
>>
>> Note to self: drink beer AFTER fixing bike. Not before.
>
> Also watch the drinking during fixing part.
>
> In the midst of my January AZ I had to replace a piece of shit Easton
> handlebar, install new cranks and BB and install new pedals.
>
> Cranks: fine
> Pedals: fine
> BB: fine
> Handlebars: fine (after installing brake levers on wrong sides the
> first time around)

I've done that totally sober. Maybe if I was drinking it would have been
better...

Matt

Westie

Andrew Thorne wrote:
> My bike felt kind of weirdly lumpy as I rode up the street to the
> trailhead. After about ten minutes riding I have a flat - "damn these
> piece of shit IRC tubes, I just replaced this the other night", I'm
> thinking as I pull off the tire, and run my hand around inside to
> find whatever sharp object might still be stuck in the tire. And I
> find.....
>
> A bright blue tire lever. In the tire.

Ah.... real life IS stranger than fiction. That's nice, really nice
--
Westie
(Replace 'invalid' with 'yahoo' when replying.)

cheg

"Craig Brossman" <craigbrossman@starband.net> wrote in message
news:V6Uec.1259$FB1.543@fe25.usenetserver.com...
>> That is too funny. Perhaps beer should come with some sort of warning,
> but I can't think of it at the moment.
>
Warning: this beverage is known to the State of California to cause dumbshit
attacks.

Mark Hickey

"MattB" <somedudeus@yahoo.com> wrote:

>P e t e F a g e r l i n wrote:

>> Handlebars: fine (after installing brake levers on wrong sides the
>> first time around)
>
>I've done that totally sober. Maybe if I was drinking it would have been
>better...

My favorite had to be the nice young woman who reinstalled her own
cranks. She wasn't sure what was wrong, but knew something was
amiss... (probably the fact that the cranks were 90 degrees apart
rather than 180).

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame

MattB

Mark Hickey wrote:
> "MattB" <somedudeus@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> P e t e F a g e r l i n wrote:
>
>>> Handlebars: fine (after installing brake levers on wrong sides the
>>> first time around)
>>
>> I've done that totally sober. Maybe if I was drinking it would have
>> been better...
>
> My favorite had to be the nice young woman who reinstalled her own
> cranks. She wasn't sure what was wrong, but knew something was
> amiss... (probably the fact that the cranks were 90 degrees apart
> rather than 180).
>

I've ridden a bike with a 0 degree difference that was built as a joke. Kind
of hard doing that dolphin-kick pedalstroke!

Matt

Slacker

Andrew Thorne wrote:

> My bike felt kind of weirdly lumpy as I rode up the street to the trailhead.
> After about ten minutes riding I have a flat - "damn these piece of shit IRC
> tubes, I just replaced this the other night", I'm thinking as I pull off the
> tire, and run my hand around inside to find whatever sharp object might still
> be stuck in the tire. And I find.....
>
> A bright blue tire lever. In the tire.
>
> Note to self: drink beer AFTER fixing bike. Not before.
>
> -Andrew
>
>
Let's all thank God that you're not a surgeon or dentist.

Met this girl in the waiting of my dentist. She was there to have a file
removed from the inside of her gums. The idiot forgot to pull it out of
her mouth before he sewed her up! I didn't believe her till she pulled
out the x-rays.
--
Slacker

S o r n i

Slacker wrote:

> Met this girl in the waiting of my dentist. She was there to have a
> file removed from the inside of her gums. The idiot forgot to pull it
> out of her mouth before he sewed her up! I didn't believe her till
> she pulled out the x-rays.

Hmmm... A *RICH* girl!

Bill "if she FILES that is (ouch)" S.

spademan o---[\) *

"Mark Hickey" <mark@habcycles.com> wrote in message
news:aj9p70df8v2pedv15cf4vh9kr3tjn0n47o@4ax.com...
> "MattB" <somedudeus@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >P e t e F a g e r l i n wrote:
>
> >> Handlebars: fine (after installing brake levers on wrong sides the
> >> first time around)
> >
> >I've done that totally sober. Maybe if I was drinking it would have been
> >better...
>
> My favorite had to be the nice young woman who reinstalled her own
> cranks. She wasn't sure what was wrong, but knew something was
> amiss... (probably the fact that the cranks were 90 degrees apart
> rather than 180).
>
> Mark Hickey

With the ISIS bottom brackets the difference can be much subtler. Apparently
it can take a 'mate' ages to figure out why their pedal stroke feels kinda
funny.

Steve.