eric aldinger
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