some of this doesn't look too offensive, are bike shop guys really disgusted by me when I roll my plastic fredmobile in with sharktoothed everything?

>>2041285
entertaining.
how do you explain what work you're going to do without offending them for doing something idiotic? is it even possible?

>>2041302
when the chain gauge doesn't just fall through but ends up in the middle of the next link, yes.

>>2041311
I don't. I tell them that I'll fix it and how much it'll cost, approximately. Then they can accept or leave.

What in the fuck. Can you at least put in 10% fucking effort and explain what the image is/what’s wrong? Fuck, man, it’s just an image dump. Fuck am I looking at. What’s wrong with lightning bolt spokes.

>>2041342
If you can't understand what's going on, despite how simple a bicycle is mechanically, then this thread is way above your autism level

>>2041342
Those spokes have no pattern. They were threaded in randomly. And when they were too long to fit into the remaining holes, the owner made that lightning bolt so they'd fit.

>>2041342
>it’s just an image dump
you're on an image board

My local bike shop is just a rented building with a massive pile of bikes

The guy that owns it looks like a wizard

He buys 100% of his stuff from homeless people so his prices are 4x cheaper than any other shop

>>2041345
damn ok
>>2041351
thanks effortposter please spoonfeed me on some more of them
>>2041366
dubs wasted on a sperg that can’t understand some people need context with their images. unfortunate

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>>2041312
bike shop guy:
>nooooo you can't have shark toothed cogs
me:
>ok fine new cassette
bike shop guy;
>noooooo you can't just mix a new cassette and an old chain, the cc-2 says 0.25!!!!
me
>ok fine new chain
bike shop guy:
>nooo....
admit it you just want me to buy a new bike

>>2041376
well no shit, if you don't maintain shit, shit breaks, and breaks shit around it too

>>2041376
2 options:
either replace your chain when the gauge tells you
or run the drivetrain into the ground, then replace it entirely
Option 2 is actually cheaper, but you'll have sub-par efficiency and a lot of noise for most of the drivetrains lifespan.

>>2041299
Creative

Great thread! I get the rest but what is going on here? >>2041288
Feels like like the pic has left out the bigger part of the story.

>>2041296
Nice ball bearing grease to grinding paste transmute I must say

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>>2041534
Pic related is what it should look like.
The customer guessed where the brake cable should go in, guessed wrong, and instead of googling tried to make it work somehow by threading the cable through a washer.
When the cable is fixed on the other brake arm, I guess the calipers might wiggle a bit and maybe even touch the rim if you pull really hard.
As is tradition, the customer insisted it was like that, he did nothing, and it's my fault his brakes suck.

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I'm not even mad, I'm intrigued

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>>2041600

I should take a picture of some of my shitty bikes and the horrible things I've done to them.

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>>2041839
found some

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>>2041840
70's schwinn stem and bars on a 90s mtb with some cheap quill shifters

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>>2041843
brake hanger made out of garbage

>>2041848
This one isn't worthy of "bike shop of horrors", that's a prime example of ork engineering.

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>>2041850
>>2041848
the duality of man

>>2041853
is that a 571 to 622 conversio or wgat is it even im looking at in case of the fork?

>>2041859
Looks like some crackhead just made room for the tire he put on it

>>2041850
Why were stem shifters ever a thing when this is an option?

loving this thread

>>2041848
So you gotta jork your bike off to shift???

>>2041919
be sure to properly lube the knob for smooth riding

>>2041854
That's more weird than horrible, though?
Or is the chainstay pulley mount the fucked up part because it's liable to crush the frame without a shaped block beneath the u-bolts?

>>2044946
The idea is weird. The execution is horrible.

>>2041285
Wat?

i ain't paying you to whine on 4chan wagie
now get back to fixing my bike, it better not be late

>>2041375
God you are a retarded nigger aren't you
>>2041376
You are also a fucking moron

>>2041600
>>2041839
whats the use case?
using the front brakes with one hand on the bars? insane

>>2045053
Fixie with a front brake only for rare emergencies, trying to preserve the look of a handlebar without brake lever (and utterly failing)

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>>2045062
Lots of 'legality levers' here in my area because the police are so butthurt they'll even stop you for just riding a bike and search for imaginary electric motors and all that shit. I'll see if I can dig a few pix up and will also dump some more because this thread is in need of more content and less retards fighting.

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>>2045065
The will let the motorist get away with everything while probably blaming the victim but god forbid someone is on a bicycle. Something must be up, probably lost your license DUI or be unemployed.
I saw a brake lever on a chainstay once, making it a foot brake I guess.
Have a unicycle.

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>>2045067
This I always found disturbingly pointless. I mean hey nothing against that but still.

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>>2045072
This is actually based.
Fuck weight weenies.

>>2045071
audible kek

>>2045077
you would think they'd have drilled it so they could also bolt to the rack and fender eyelets so it wouldn't be able to pivot. but then, doing the smart thing doesn't seem to be a high priority here
>>2045078
ok, I'm completely lost here

>>2045100
They riveted a literal gas pipe to their frame to fix it after it broke, is my guess.

>>2045874
>argues with you about handlebar and lever position
>I just like it like that

>>2041298
fair enough, rear brake is optional

>>2045652
WUT.
Y.

>>2045874
>go to apply brakes
>loud bone snapping sounds

>>2045921
obviously because either the spring broke or its one that needs pumping and the guy doesn't have the pump. I suspect the spring broke. El cheapo suspension fork is stupid and superfluous dead weight anyways guy better of swapping fork.

>>2045652
Thats got to be spring fork. No way it's failed to still be a spring fork. Why the hose clamps? Methhead lockout? Has the lowers somehow started to separate from the stanchions?

>>2045075
I'm not mad, I'm impressed.
>>2045072
You know what they say
>if it's stupid but it works...

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>>2045067
Took me a while to come up with a pic showing it

>>2047331
I mean, as an emergency brake you only use if your chain breaks, it's marginally better than the alternative (wedging your foot between the rear wheel and chain stays).

>>2047346
yeah, I mean if you're going to take your foot off the pedal anyway, why not skip the brake with the tiny tip of the lever you have to target in an emergency and just go for the big enchilada?

>>2047369
Specially when the brake cable doubles back on itself in the space of 3 inches like that, jesus, just thread it in backwards

>>2047372
oh wow I didn't even see that level of retardation

>>2047346
>>2047369
>>2047372
I thought I had originally exained this. >>2045065
'legality levers'.
This brake won't see use even in an emergency, the guy will just ted shred because that's what you do when reflexes kick in.
But:
'Officer it DOES HAVE two independent braking systems'

>>2045067
Yesterday I ended up in an inadvertant pack with a guy on a colnago and a lady on a S works and a boomer on a festka and we got jammed up in some traffic with a nissan shitbox with expired paper tags and the driver was loudly complaining about "bikers being on the RRRRROOOOOAD" (and not on the sidewalk), the irony of a dirtbag whose stolen car cost less than the front wheel of one of the bikes he was bitching about was delicious, I don't even have anything against cagers let alone poor people but don't act entitled and whine about muh road tax when you're driving a stolen car

>>2044948
Cable actuator for hydraulic rim brakes? Any overall picture to judge the "adapter"?

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>>2041898
They didn't have teflon-lined cable housings and cables we have now, slick enough to run in one piece all the way from shifter to rear derailleur and still shift shit, so they had to minimize housing usage to just the derailleur itself where it's almost unavoidable. Bare cable goes out of downtube shifters, runs parallel to the downtube (duh), gets turned around via sliders, rollers or a very short run of housing, then runs bare parallel to the chainstay and enters the scratchy tube of doom to the derailleur.

>>2041394
thing is my chain gauge says it's fine and then bike shop guy insists it's beyond fucked. who is lying? who has an incentive to lie?

>>2041296
>>2041302
Tbh at a certain point it makes more sense just to let the chain and the rings wear out together then replace everything as a unit. I've done that on bikes I've bought second hand before that were already in shit shape

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>>2045067
2 * 0.5 = 1

>>2052789
those gears at least fucking lasted
i think i'll retvrn to 3x8

>be me
>ride planned with friend, half way to the meeting point
>he texts me, nail in his tire
>he runs tubeless, doesn’t have a repair kit
>tell him to take it out and leave the hole at the bottom and see if it seals
>it doesn’t
>ride all the way to his fucking house
>cunt isn’t getting out of a ride that easily, always has an excuse
>give him my spare tube
>wrestle with the fucking thing for 20mins but get it done
>sealant fucking everywhere
fuck toobless man

>>2054966
tubeless is a retarded meme since you have to carry around a fucking tube anyway for when you get a puncture that doesn't seal. never mind the mess that the industry has made of fucking rims

>>2046412
>>if it's stupid but it works...
it's way too far away and theres a huge gap right where your butt is to get mud splashed all over it constantly.

>>2054966
>>2054979
i thought tubeless was you just have solid rubber tires like a dumptruck wtf

>>2055382
>i thought tubeless was you just have solid rubber tires like a dumptruck wtf
No, it's like a car tire but with sealant. You have a stiff tubless tire that you wrestle onto a tubless wheel and then fill with sealant and use a gorillion PSI to get it to seat to the rim. It's very gay

>>2055398
that does sound incredibly wack and like a typical SF techbro's retardo solution to a non-existent problem

unironically until now i thought "diy tubeless" was just cramming a tire full of silicone and praying it cures properly. or like other mods ive seen for lawn/farm equipment where they do the same just to a tube because it's easier to close back up instead of getting striation

>>2054979
its fucking retarded. I have been so happy with my tee pee you tubes, lighter, takes like three minutes maximum to swap out the tube if i need. I don’t even fucking need tire levers. Working on a tubeless setup was not nice i hope that fuckass nigga listens to me ditches that shit because i know ill have to fix it for him again

>>2041854
imagine the noise

>>2041851
yours? genius
would love to see it in action

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just saw this on craigslist

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>>2056735
and this

>>2041376
Based and the other replies are judgemental cowards. I've ridden motorcycles with way worse chains/sprockets and haven't died or lost any legs

>>2045075
Cool Bimota

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>>2056735
any justification from owner?
I love trolling craigslist and facebook retards, like calling out backwards forks and shit

>>2056793
Cute mtf

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>>2054966
>having to do maintenance on your tyre because there's dried sealant inside it
Also why does seth from berm peak often give normal people bikes with tubeless tyres? Those cunts aren't going to do the required maintenance or fill up those tyres with sealant so he's just given them a problem that they will have to deal with later. At least with bikes that have inner tubes if you can't fix it it's on you. Tubeless is just a meme technology all around.

>>2060425
Because it's a huge advantage for mtb if you know what you're doing. However I agree with you, he really should be putting inner tubes in.

>>2045074
Is that a bike designed for a midget?

>>2041376
They're always seething autists. I usually don't take my bike in, and just walk in and buy a new chain without letting them see the horrific condition of my bike. Sometimes I'll ask a question if there's something I don't know how to fix, and just ask them to describe the fix to me.

>>2054851
What chain checker do you have? Is it park tool or chink tool?

>>2060709
>park shill

>>2041371
in other words, a front for stolen bikes

>>2041600
Parking break, neato.

>>2041376
>0.25
Yeah he's either retarded or having you on. .25% is fucking nothing.

Usually I'll leave my chains til either 1% or if they snap. Then ((IF)) the new chain skips on the cassette replace that. Never had to swap out jockey wheels or chainsets or anything, the units typically fail somewhere else before it becomes noticeable.

Shop guys are fucking insufferable for the most part. Either booger eating fetuses who's last time on wheels was in a pram, or turbo tards who throw a hissy fit at any sign of someone actually using their bike as intended.

>>2041376
Are you poor or something?

>>2045075
i was looking up motorbike suspensions and apparently this is a thing ripped off from ancient chopper culture.

boomers would use leaf springs on the front fork because muh cheap mod and the modern versions of it are basically that picture using normal coil gas springs and a weird armature. it's just typical boomer paint huffing retardation making things overcomplicated because they can only think in terms of parts they can rip off a truck and manhandle together with salvaged tie rods and bondo

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>>2063261
forgot image

>>2041290
there is literally nothing wrong with this except for that he (or you) at some point came in it