That happened to me on a job once except it poked me and I had to go through the full hiv/hep/whatever testing protocols. Real fun.
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This is so philly
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few folks at work have been stuck. not from tires, but we got them to medical care and the whole course of preventives within the hour. shit is scary. sucks when your mechs have to wear pretty heavy ppe on their hands just to take bikes in
Anyone deal Orbea and know if the Rise rear hubs are prone to asploding?
Well, Giant is telling me to pound sand.
Paint warranty is 1 year, bike was purchased through my shop 1 year plus a few weeks ago. Giant warranty also specifically excludes corrosion. How hard would you push back on this?
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Small update that nobody asked for but I need to vent.
Went to the shop today and I was able to look at the correspondence that has been going on between the store manager and Giant warranty department.
Looks like the warranty agent has decided from the very beginning that I have had something rubbing up against this area and will not be convinced otherwise, even after seeing that video.
The bike has always been carried on a Kuat Transfer and I’ve never had a bag wedged up in that area. So he must think that we are lying to him.
He offered a direct replacement frame, but at the price he wants I could buy something different that’s not two generations old and probably susceptible to the same issues.
I guess I’ll just keep riding it. I don’t think it’s going to fall apart but it did start creaking quite a bit on my ride today.
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Out doing SFR’s black friday Coastal Classic and ran into this lady at the bike hut
if you can’t see in the photo, her right seatstay is cracked, like, 90% of the way through. And the left seatstay is wrapped in tape, apparently cracked entirely through. She rode with two buds up Old La Honda, down 84, over the Haskins Hill bump to Pescadero, and only noticed the broken frame while having lunch, with no idea what might have caused it. She said she was going to ride to the top of Tunitas and then along Skyline over to Alice’s and get picked up by a friend; I advised her to maybe just stop at the top of Tunitas to get picked up there, as there are some steep/fast downhill twisties on the way to Alice’s…
The three of them passed me on the Tunitas climb and I never saw them again, hope she made it home safe.
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The only thing I can think of is a stick getting caught in the spokes, but I imagine you’d remember that.
I see the seat stay cracks, is that what you meant?
Good thing for her that seat stays are almost cosmetic on a lot of carbon frames
impressive
whoop yep, seatstays not chainstays
I think we are at the point that anyone over 50 who wants to go tubeless should have a note from their doctor. I think explaining to the same older gen-x and younger Boomers 2-3 times a year that they need to refresh their sealant and that there is nothing wrong with their tires that they have yet to ride to the point where there is ANY visible wear is going to give me a stroke.
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The “refresh your sealant” is what always does me in; it requires that I maintain a schedule, which is always an iffy thing.
(I think the only machine I ever successfully did tubeless on for a long time was the mountainhack, which ran tubeless Confréries on a pair of only approximately 650b CR18s. I left that tubeless for, what, 18 months before the tire goo could no longer keep the big old rip on the center of the tread sealed.)
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Tubeless in my family’s fleet of bikes is just too much work. I can’t handle it. But then a boy will take a non-tubeless bike and get a screw straight in, where the tube is entirely irreparable, and I second guess everything.
I’ve taken to just popping the bead off, dumping 2-4 oz into whatever tubeless setup is performing poorly, reseating with the compressor, spraying with soap water, and troubleshooting any bubbles. This is the best I’ve got at this point and it is like playing fucking whack-a-mole with a fleet of wheels. I hate it.
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I love tubeless once it’s setup but now that I’ve said that I’m sure I will be reminded of whichever bike hasn’t gotten a top-up recently enough 
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I’ve regressed to tubes on everything. Winters are just too long here, and I don’t have a space to do it myself, so I just stopped caring for the incremental improvement.
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All tubeless all the time. I probably mess with sealant about as often as I’d replaced a tube back in the day. The difference is that I get to mess with sealant on my own schedule in my warm and dry living room. And if I had to change a tube I’d invariably be outside in the rain squatting in the dirt thinking about how I’d need to cut the ride short to account for the fact that I only had one tube and I’d be totally screwed if I got another flat.
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I’m down to tubeless on the mountain bike only now. Every other bike gets tubes plus non-latex Finish Line from the gallon jug I bought last year.
Injecting the goo into tubes?