now I just want to look at the tree more!
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Customer brought his bike in, which is always a trainwreck, for a tune up. Throw it in the stand and feel a hard lump under the tape, I’ve seen this before and know what to expect. Last full service was in 2018. Pull tape and immediately get a smell that would make most folks throw up. This was the worse I’ve seen by far, about 6mm tall lump of salt. Brush if off and here is whats left. These failures usually result in some dental work.
Gross drops
Edits: How the fuk do I change this to non-embedded for the queasy tarck folks?
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Holy shit is he a xenomorph?
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Maybe. All I know is this isn’t my first rodeo. I’ve worked on a lot of gross salt coated trainer bikes and TT bikes covered in bodily fluids. I’ve got a vgc customer who is arguably worse; but he spends money and I refuse to sell him alloy bars, carbon only.
I mean, how
I used a set of all bars (bought used at the bike swap) for 12 years 45k miles and it never looked like that. and I’m gross. I’ll never understand it
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Some people are built different.
And by that I mean some people generate unusually corrosive sweat. Bear help the poor bastards.
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I’m goin to guess that 49,876 of those miles were outside and the rest were fucking about riding bikes where you shouldn’t and having a great time. I’m going to guess mr sweatpig spends lots of time on a trainer and/or rides somewhere with a high humidity and temperature.
props to @turpentine for the nsfw edit I couldn’t figure out. Can you help me with the scratch and smell feature when you click the link?
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I have a buddy like that, there is nothing he cant cause to bond together, and another one who looks likes Alien with drool running of his chin at the end of each TT he does. Its hard not to gag.
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Dude needs some zinc anode bar ends. Now I’m curious if that would actually work.
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sacrificial anodes only help when fully immersed in the “electrolyte”
on oil rigs only the under water bits are protected by anodes, the “splash zone” pretty much gets fucked by corrosion, the O&G move is to apply monel (corrosion resistant copper-nickel alloy) sheathing to the “splash zone” although i think carpet fibre is also used now.
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Things I did not know as a machinist for marine applications. I make the part and gets coated in various things later that I’m not apart of. Except for hard anodizing because that increases wall thicknesses so I have to compensate all my dimensions for that process since all dimensions given to me are final part not pre process.
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At least change your bar tape more often. It’s called hygiene jeez
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I put 3,000+ miles on my trainer bike last year and was shamefully bad at remembering to wipe it down after use. I took it to the shop a couple months ago fully expecting to pay extra for it being disgusting (I hosed it down beforehand, of course) and ready for it to be declared unsafe for anything but trainer use. When the mechanic called me back, he deemed it “pristine,” and I was floored.
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it’s your special lady sweat, weirdos on the internet pay good money for that
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When frontbaglyfe goes too far.
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#lowesttrail
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I just had to grind down and repaint the top tube on a bike I’d been dripping sweat on for years and created a big bubbly rust spot on. But, I change bar tape when it gets gross and torn up so I hadn’t had any problems with the handlebars or anything else.
Going to be entering the “wipe down your bike after a ride” crew this summer shartmo
Frontiers of low trail and planing right here.
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