Comments on: Tell Your Best Field Repair Story, Win a Banjo Brothers Backpack

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SMB tech geeks — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:02:17 +0000

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By: Brian W

Brian W — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:20:57 +0000

A couple of repairs come to mind:

1. While touring in Germany, I got a bad sidewall gash in my tire. Yes, another “paper money as a boot story.” But the catch is that first I tried euro paper bills, which had little to no tensile strength. Then I remembered I had a few US Dollars in my wallet still, and tried one, to much better effect.

2. Out mountain biking one time I crashed and ended up tacoing my rear wheel. Took it out of the frame, eyed it appraisingly, and then jumped on it with both feet (judiciously) a few times. Got it straight enough to ride back to the car, and only had to loosen the brakes a little bit.

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By: Kevin Richardson

Kevin Richardson — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:14:31 +0000

Here are the photos of the repair to the Lefty…

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8IYt2LFsxasS2¬ag=1

By: Kevin Richardson

Kevin Richardson — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:12:56 +0000

This repair even got Cannondale’s attention and they took my thrashed bike back – no questions. I had my new RUSH delivered to the trail head in Durango CO after intense training on it for the San Juan Hut System ride to Moab. It arrives – and guess what? The truck leaves and the Lefty won’t hold a charge. Its getting cold, looks like rain so we heads out. After 200 miles of dirt road and 4 wheel roads with the front shock banging metl on metal we arrive in Bedrock population of maybe 200. There I tear open the boot of the Lefty and pop in a vacuum cleaner extension hose with a slot out of it (so it could expand while fixing it in) – and joila! Hard front for the last 50 miles. Pictures are available:

By: greg

greg — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:53:58 +0000

This one isn’t really a repair, but fits under the idea of something designed for a specific task, working well for another task.

As my friend and I were unloading our bikes from his car and getting ready to start our ride I realized, since Chris wasn’t a regular rider, he didn’t have a camel back or other source for water on the trails.

The bike he rented didn’t have a bottle cage or anything designed to hold a water bottle.

The bike did however have a bike lock. It turns out the little plastic ring that holds the bike lock firmly to the bicycle also fits perfectly around the neck of a 20oz coke bottle. We took off the lock, sat the bottle atop the crank case, and lowered the little ring over the neck of the bottle. It worked great; the bottle never came lose even after jumping logs and drops in the trail.