New & Interesting Bike Campenaerts

karl_dandleton · October 17, 2021, 2:56am

i knew a guy who would leave a tube tied inside his rear triangle so he could install it without removing the wheel. one sided changes that calculus to like, arithmetic

cousinmosquito · October 17, 2021, 3:18am

What was his plan for the incumbent tube? Cut it out?

karl_dandleton · October 17, 2021, 4:16am

There was no incumbent tube. Get a flat during the race, toss the tube in real quick, keep writing as fast as you possibly can. Was a mountain bike race strategy

LASER_BEIGE · October 17, 2021, 4:37am

A bike wrice

Crustradamus · October 18, 2021, 1:09am

Straight up genius

anon3547885 · October 18, 2021, 1:12am

It took me a while to figger out how that would work

Shamp · October 18, 2021, 1:46am

I still can’t figure it out. How would they get the tube around the axle?

featherduster · October 18, 2021, 1:55am

Already is around it

LASER_BEIGE · October 18, 2021, 2:54am

Tube around one side of the rear stays

crowding · October 18, 2021, 3:21am

I don’t remember if I actually did that when I had a gearhub + drum-brake + horiz dropouts sled but i def thought about it, tube changes were a nightmare

karl_dandleton · October 18, 2021, 3:24am

jesse kelly is/was many things. i can’t exclude genius from the list but man he was an awkward dude to share a basement with the night before a big gravel race that he was RACING and i was racing my prior years time

jimmythefly · October 18, 2021, 3:42am

Some (mid engine, 24hr type) vintage race cars had their alternator sitting on the transmission, powered via belt drive off one of the half shafts.

They would pre-install an extra belt around the shaft and taped out of the way, so if needed mid race it would be a quick fix.

Shamp · October 18, 2021, 4:18am

Wut?

Someone draw this or something, I feel like I’m missing something obvious.

Master_Stabby · October 18, 2021, 5:30am

take the wheel out of the MOTHERFUCKER.
put the tube in where the wheel goes like it’s a wheel but it’s not it’s a tube.
tie that shit up outta the way, but leave it looped around inside one set of the stays on the fuckin bike.
put the wheel back in the MOTHERFUCKER.

Sorry my phone auto caps MOTHERFUCKER and I think it’s funny.

BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS · October 18, 2021, 11:44am

it took me a while too, don’t feel bad. here is my attempt to draw it in powerpoint

karl_dandleton · October 18, 2021, 11:54am

sort of. i’ll draw or demonstrate later if i can remember.

Petr5 · October 18, 2021, 12:17pm

The way I visualize it is imagine taking your tube off without taking your wheel off. That’s your starting point with the spare. Just gotta tie it out of the way.

karl_dandleton · October 18, 2021, 12:19pm

yeah that’s putting it more succinctly than i could

Shamp · October 18, 2021, 1:53pm

LMAO for some reason I was picturing a folded up tube lashed to the seat stays for some reason.

Now it makes sense.

BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS · October 18, 2021, 2:49pm

me too and i had to really think about it