Holy shit/Bike Shop lulz

[Bearpants]

Back in my amazing mistakes phase, building my first sweet fixie, I got some sweet wheels from the internet and when they arrived the eyelets were just naked. I thought they looked awfully sharp, but they surely wouldn’t ship them like that if it was dangerous… I installed tubes and tires and pumped em up and everything was fine and I was super proud of myself.

Sometime later I was watching TV upstairs and it sounded like a gun went off. Not knowing that rim strips were a thing I cut up some old jeans and used denim to cover those pesky holes.

[dotMR]

$100 product idea: selvedge denim rim strips…No really, sell them on IG for $100/wheel.

[sleve_mcdichael]

Fond-de-jeante

[iwillbe]

@DaFROG

Fond-de-jeante

smiled briefly, exhaled sharply through my nose.

Highest comedy accolades.

[Mankato_Pet_Cremation_LLC]

@DaFROG

Fond-de-jeante

You truly are the greatest tarcker

[cheese]

Better than those knockoff fond de Nimes

[sleve_mcdichael]

@ckd

[quote=DaFROG]Fond-de-jeante

You truly are the greatest tarcker[/quote]

awwww

juge fredd esq sparkly heart bear.gif

[Face]

@TimArchyLime

There was a game at my old shop that had a bathroom off the service area where you’d slide a tube under the door after someone went in and inflate it from the outside with the compressor until it exploded. Never happened to me thankfully.

A shop I worked at breifly claimed to play that game but I never witnessed it.

Did y’all also shoot ball bearings at each other with the presta inflator? Switch bike boxes with some BS hybrid when someone’s new bike showed up? I miss those days.

[Timarchylime]

Ooh. Those sound like fun games. Maybe I’ll get back into shop life when I’m burned out on teaching and teach these old games to the young whipper snappers turning wrenches.

[dfl]

Not down for the ball bearing in the presta inflator. Fuck that game.

[drwelby]

On our rubber nozzle head we found it used the same thread as hollow rear axle, so that gave you enough barrel length to fire darts from spokes/nipples cut out of wheels…

[motorbacon]

I know of two mechanics who were terminated on the spot for shooting spokes at a cardboard cut out of a human silhouette.

[Mr_Pubes]

do you think they would have kept their jobs if it was a horse or cow silhouette?

[eric_ssucks]

#fakenews!

Alternatively, shop management may have seen that behavior and instantly and correctly concluded that those guys are idiots and they didn’t want them anywhere near a customer bike.

[cheese]

yeah, creating improvised projectiles in a shop is kind of a major liability

[motorbacon]

@cheese

yeah, creating improvised projectiles in a shop is kind of a major liability

Yep. Also, it was after one of the many mass shootings and it was done in plain sight of customers. Idiots.

[dfl]

@motorbacon

[quote=cheese]yeah, creating improvised projectiles in a shop is kind of a major liability

Yep. Also, it was after one of the many mass shootings and it was done in plain sight of customers. Idiots.[/quote]
Yeah, bad optics aside, fuck working in an environment where people are shooting small projectiles out of a 200 psi compressor.

[Face]

Only 130 psi, but yea.

At the shops where we shot ball bearings it was definitely an opt-in sort of arrangement.

[karl_dandleton]

presta capa is as far as i go. and that’s with safety glasses and away from people/valuables.

[oogens]

[quote=Face]Only 130 psi, but yea.

At the shops where we shot ball bearings it was definitely an opt-in sort of arrangement.[/quote]

lol doug and I were sharpening old spokes, pressing them through presta caps, and putting an electrical tape flange on them to shoot them at old bike boxes. I think Don shut that one down pretty much immediately