Loose stem: it was sabotage!

eric aldinger

2012-03-05

I can't believe you let people work on your bike. Are you trying to kill
people?

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Curt Dewees wrote:

> " I will continue to use my expensive Italian torque wrench."
>
> Classic! Thanks for the smile! That should be included in a YouTube
> video, "Shit OBRA Racers Say." :-)
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Dan H wrote:
> > After my last friendly warning post about checking my bike and finding
> the stem loose, I got a couple nastygrams about how I've been negligent in
> my bike maintainence. I took offense to that since I've been called OCD
> about keeping my bikes perfect.
> > Before the race today, I was rolling around and noticed my saddle was a
> couple milimeters too low. Then it hit me: I had the bike worked on the
> week before and had not ridden it since. ( I have a rain bike to do the
> heavy The person who shall be nameless that did the work had the fork and
> seat post out, replaced them but not secure the bolts. If I had ridden the
> bike without checking it, I'm sure I would have crashed within a few feet.
> > The nameless person that worked on the bike will get a verbal ass
> kicking.
> > The bolts did not rattle loose as I first thought and I had not been
> riding the bike in an unsafe condition.
> > I will continue to use antisieze as Thomson specifies and not
> threadlock. I will continue to use my expensive Italian torque wrench.
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Eric Aldinger


Curt Dewees

2012-03-05

" I will continue to use my expensive Italian torque wrench."

Classic! Thanks for the smile! That should be included in a YouTube
video, "Shit OBRA Racers Say." :-)

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Dan H wrote:
> After my last friendly warning post about checking my bike and finding the stem loose, I got a couple nastygrams about how I've been negligent in my bike maintainence. I took offense to that since I've been called OCD about keeping my bikes perfect.
> Before the race today, I was rolling around and noticed my saddle was a couple milimeters too low. Then it hit me: I had the bike worked on the week before and had not ridden it since. ( I have a rain bike to do the heavy The person who shall be nameless that did the work had the fork and seat post out, replaced them but not secure the bolts. If I had ridden the bike without checking it, I'm sure I would have crashed within a few feet.
> The nameless person that worked on the bike will get a verbal ass kicking.
> The bolts did not rattle loose as I first thought and I had not been riding the bike in an unsafe condition.
> I will continue to use antisieze as Thomson specifies and not threadlock. I will continue to use my expensive Italian torque wrench.


Dan H

2012-03-05

After my last friendly warning post about checking my bike and finding the stem loose, I got a couple nastygrams about how I've been negligent in my bike maintainence. I took offense to that since I've been called OCD about keeping my bikes perfect.
Before the race today, I was rolling around and noticed my saddle was a couple milimeters too low. Then it hit me: I had the bike worked on the week before and had not ridden it since. ( I have a rain bike to do the heavy The person who shall be nameless that did the work had the fork and seat post out, replaced them but not secure the bolts. If I had ridden the bike without checking it, I'm sure I would have crashed within a few feet.
The nameless person that worked on the bike will get a verbal ass kicking.
The bolts did not rattle loose as I first thought and I had not been riding the bike in an unsafe condition.
I will continue to use antisieze as Thomson specifies and not threadlock. I will continue to use my expensive Italian torque wrench.