Things that don't go wrong with my bike

linsen
linsen Posts: 1,959
edited December 2008 in Commuting chat
Sorry, Jamey, but I'm demob happy and feeling cheeky

I have owned my bike since April and barring one day when the tyres were a bit flat and slowed me down, I have had 941 trouble-free miles

:wink:

Ps obviously bad karma or something will now ensue.......
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  • Jamey
    Jamey Posts: 2,152
    Haha... I wondered how long it'd be before somebody started a "things that don't..." thread. Or a copycat one with even worse luck than me, but maybe that's not possible ;)

    Nice one.
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  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    :D:D

    I will no doubt seal my own fate here, but I bought my tourer in May for doing JoGLE fully loaded up and had 1000 trouble free miles over the 10 days. :)

    I now use it everyday for commuting and am up to 2400 miles and so far all i have done apart from some air in the tyres and some oil on the chain and twist the brake lever back after i crashed, apart from that all trouble free.....still no punctures too..woohoooo

    done about 2000 miles on the road bike this year too and thats only had 1 x chain snap and no punctures..woohoo

    The mountain bike however....don't even go there!
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  • ansbaradigeidfran
    ansbaradigeidfran Posts: 526
    In roughly ten years of cycling, as a tyke, I can only remember two (perhaps three) punctures. Then, on the bike I had before Ol' Bouncy came along this October, I had no punctures in six years.

    Admittedly, that was after it caught an end-of-season puncture, I put it away unfixed, and had outgrown it come the spring...
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Maintaining my fleet is becoming an ever increasing task, I usually have at least one on-going problem at any given time.

    My wife on the other hand has had a cheap Halfords bike for over two years, never cleans it or does anything to it and it works perfectly, not one problem.
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  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    I'm saying nothing. Last time i said something like that, I had 12 months of bad bike luck. Had a puncture which i fixed easily but my pump broke. Then my rear mech committee suicide by jumping into the back wheel. Some other things happened, then the year was capped off by a taxi driver knocked me off on the way home from work and broke my back wheel and rear mech again.

    My lips are sealed.
  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    I bought my SS bike a year ago
    During the first 120 miles I got 4 punctures
    After that I bought some Conti Gatorskins for it
    somewhere in the 3500 -4000 mile region later and I've had just one puncture, incurred when I rode over a big stone in the road - so it was a pinch puncture. New brake blocks just been bought and also discovered that my chain is near enough worn out, meaning I can now justify a bigger ring or smaller sprocket or both. (expect a thread about ring size, started by me and posted to mainly by GregT in the very near future)
    The Gatorskins have been very good to me, last week I had to pull into a shop and borrow their track pump - I found something hard embedded in the front tyre. Deflated it, took out the small and sharp shard of glass, then pumped up and was on my way, a bit of a gash in the tyre but it's still intact.
    My theory on "when to change a tyre" being "when you start getting a lot of punctures" means these tyres could well go on forever!

    The Gods will now descend upon me with furious vengance and puncture fairies of course.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Nothing seems to go wrong with my bikes.

    Things go wrong with me instead... :(
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • Konan
    Konan Posts: 43
    I had my wheels turned into a couple of bannna shaped objects by a Fiesta and I snapped the valve off an inner tube when loading the wheels into my car.

    I just can't hold those two things against the bike.

    Never suffered a problem with my Dawes. I've never even punctured through it's Vittoria Randonneurs. And I don't exactly avoid sharp things.
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Nothing seems to go wrong with my bikes.

    Things go wrong with me instead... :(

    one ran away :cry:
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  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    Road bikes have been fine - this year was just a Dura Ace headset (last one only lasted 18 years)....nothing else on either 2 road bikes.

    MTB commuter has had a number of bits replaced due to wear or upgrade.... new XT pedals, new XT Mech, new XT Canti's (old school MTB), new wheels and a new freehub on new wheels, new tyres, new big chainring, two chains/cassettes, and new lights all round during the year

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