So, in the process of cleaning the chain, I notice this..
FSCK!
8 thoughts on “Rim Job”
Damn you’re hard on gear Hippy.
I know I break spokes a lot, but I’ve never come close that level of destruction.
Explains why the beer bike i got from you is the way it is 😉
Nice work! What sort of rim is it? Fucked now I guess.
Skewer:
I’m not THAT bad man.. that Apollo was very old and was my main crash test vehicle for at least 10 years 🙂
Ant:
It was a ZAC19. It was the original ZAC19 the bike came with in the mid-90?s. I didn?t replace the rim when I killed the original rear hub (before the SS Worlds I think).
The front is also a ZAC19, but it is a whole new wheel – current spec ZAC19. The new rear is a ZAC2000 – never seen these before. I need to kill the front one now so I can get black rims all ?round. I don?t know why I typed ZAC so many times – it’s a real pain in the arse on a German keyboard with Z and Y arse-about..
I’m only typing this much because it’s STILL FSCKING RAINING outside and I just can?t drink any more coffee and nothing good is open in Oldenburg on a Sunday.
My bike is in better condition than yours and I stack it at least once a week.
🙁 Wish I wasn’t so unco!
Touch wood – I haven’t stacked my new road bike. And I’ve had it since October 2003. It hasn’t seen many K’s though… Heck, I haven’t had a stack in ages! Ooooh… Touch wood. I did my fair share of stacking in my teens/early twenties.
Tam:
Hey, just remember, in its previous lives this bike was a trials bike and a singlespeed thrasher (SSWC03 runner)!
The rim was 10 years old FFS!! AND I can barely pick the bike up – quite some load it had to carry on only a cheap rim!
"There, there Zac.. they don?t really mean it.."
Ant:
Your road bike doesn?t even know what sunlight looks like.. no wonder you haven?t stacked it!
Yeah, when you stack, you stack HARD! You should have about 20 years grace period after the infamous Dunny Jump and your wittle DH airlift incident.. 😉
Isn’t Ant from Melbourne? How would a bike from Melbourne know what sunlight looks like?
I’m from Mildura actually. Technically, the bike is from Melbourne cause I bought the frame there. But the wheels and the rest of it were built by Moi in Irymple, jsut out of Mildura in my brothers Loungeroom (where all good mechinicing activities happen!). Mildura born and bred. But I got away for a little while.
Damn you’re hard on gear Hippy.
I know I break spokes a lot, but I’ve never come close that level of destruction.
Explains why the beer bike i got from you is the way it is 😉
Nice work! What sort of rim is it? Fucked now I guess.
Skewer:
I’m not THAT bad man.. that Apollo was very old and was my main crash test vehicle for at least 10 years 🙂
Ant:
It was a ZAC19. It was the original ZAC19 the bike came with in the mid-90?s. I didn?t replace the rim when I killed the original rear hub (before the SS Worlds I think).
The front is also a ZAC19, but it is a whole new wheel – current spec ZAC19. The new rear is a ZAC2000 – never seen these before. I need to kill the front one now so I can get black rims all ?round. I don?t know why I typed ZAC so many times – it’s a real pain in the arse on a German keyboard with Z and Y arse-about..
I’m only typing this much because it’s STILL FSCKING RAINING outside and I just can?t drink any more coffee and nothing good is open in Oldenburg on a Sunday.
My bike is in better condition than yours and I stack it at least once a week.
🙁 Wish I wasn’t so unco!
Touch wood – I haven’t stacked my new road bike. And I’ve had it since October 2003. It hasn’t seen many K’s though… Heck, I haven’t had a stack in ages! Ooooh… Touch wood. I did my fair share of stacking in my teens/early twenties.
Tam:
Hey, just remember, in its previous lives this bike was a trials bike and a singlespeed thrasher (SSWC03 runner)!
The rim was 10 years old FFS!! AND I can barely pick the bike up – quite some load it had to carry on only a cheap rim!
"There, there Zac.. they don?t really mean it.."
Ant:
Your road bike doesn?t even know what sunlight looks like.. no wonder you haven?t stacked it!
Yeah, when you stack, you stack HARD! You should have about 20 years grace period after the infamous Dunny Jump and your wittle DH airlift incident.. 😉
Isn’t Ant from Melbourne? How would a bike from Melbourne know what sunlight looks like?
I’m from Mildura actually. Technically, the bike is from Melbourne cause I bought the frame there. But the wheels and the rest of it were built by Moi in Irymple, jsut out of Mildura in my brothers Loungeroom (where all good mechinicing activities happen!). Mildura born and bred. But I got away for a little while.