What did you do to your bike today?

TripleT said:
So some, not great, but hope you can see. First PIC is where the plate sheered. Second is the other half of the plate still attached to the caliper. Aldo note a few nicks taken out of the spokes!

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:eek::eek: Not good!

I don't like the damage to the wheel, those nicks will be stress raisers that could encourage crack propagation. If you are keeping the wheel I would use a half round file and change the sharp nicks into a generous radius, i.e. remove more material (without making it deeper) but create a lower stress shape.

I'd also want to know why that happened. Has the bike been used with seized sliders on the rear caliper? That could put a lot of cyclic stress into the carrier.
 
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Scary when such things happen a little out of the ordinary but do happen.

This bleed nipple and area around it just fell off when I tightened after a bleed and as you know just a nip is needed, just felt like a spanner on chocolate.

The scary thing is I was at a bike meet at a local shop which runs into the night and a friend had a go on the 12 and decided stretch her legs at 180+ down the bypass silly young man :) and **** his pants when trying to stop at the roundabout due to the brakes being **** 2 days later the above happened.

Just aluminium fatigue due to many bleeds from previous owner but never come across it before I have had nipples shear but not a lump surrounding it.

I also had a sr250 rear drum brake sheared from the holder on the swing arm a few years ago at a junction nearly killed me the front is not much use on a sr250 but the back is very good both drum brakes.

I have since replaced with nissin calipers, one finger stopping power on my old green bean :)
 
The nick you can see is only a small one however every spoke is nicked with one being about a cm in size.

Managed to pick up a new wheel for 70quid and for the peace of mind its worth it IMO. New bracket I've got for 15quid from eBay.

Just to compound matters the garage across the road from my work (where I've pushed it too) his main mechanic broke his hand on Sunday coming off his bike! Couldn't make it up, should be fine as I've got to wait a day or two for parts so should have cleared some work.
 
Best to change the wheel,saw a clip the other day of rob Dunlop's rear wheel exploding,best to be safe with things like that

Plus those spokes are thin,if they were thick I wouldn't worry so much
 
why do idiots in cars always try to race you? had a wally in a merc today,i had to show him who was boss,but I was injoying pootling along till that point

right up my arse he was
 
wazza300 said:
why do idiots in cars always try to race you? had a wally in a merc today,i had to show him who was boss,but I was injoying pootling along till that point

right up my arse he was
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Some people do it for a laugh and a bit of fun. Whist some other people actually think they have a chance of beating you. :rolleyes:

gcaster said:
It's when they try and do you from a standing start that gets me...
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LOL best solution for that is to rev up and pretend your going to race, then when they pull off wheel spinning etc you just pull off as normal. Makes them feel like a right nob!
 
wazza300 said:
why do idiots in cars always try to race you? had a wally in a merc today,i had to show him who was boss,but I was injoying pootling along till that point

right up my arse he was
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I've had enough now of people being a few inches from my back wheel, so i slow down and make them wait, if they try and overtake i speed up!
 
I always get that,right up on my back wheel,everyone's in a rush these days

I tend to slow down and annoy them (I used to slam on the brakes sharpish,but I wouldn't advise doing that,one time I heard his tyres screech)
 
Yeah very annoying, i don't understand their view on bikes, i'm doing the speed limit and yet they try and push me to speed up by tail gating at dangerous distances from the bike.

They must think that because i'm on L plates that i'm doing under the limit, i'm not, most of the time i'm a few MPH over the limit just to keep them off my wheel, *****! :p
 
you still get it even after passing with no L plates on,atleast I do,i must have an attractive ass:eek:

(Ill have to rig up an oil slick gadget,or a smoke screen,or drop a lot of screws behind me)
 
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Flack88 said:
LOL best solution for that is to rev up and pretend your going to race, then when they pull off wheel spinning etc you just pull off as normal. Makes them feel like a right nob!
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I did that once from a set of lights, he flew past me to another set of red lights a few hundred meters on. At that point I gently filtered past him to the front of the queue, just as they were turning green. The look of hatred I got was priceless. Mmm hot salty tears of rage, nothing like it.
 
I' happy with the satisfaction of ignoring them and doing your own thing full in the knowledge they, and not much else on the road, has any chance in any kind of 'race' :D
 
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