What lesson have you learned the hard way?

wolftone

Never try showing off to your kids how fit you are at 44, by racing your 2 year old labradoodle. Now that I have had my humerus and rotator cuff rebuilt, I should be back on my bike in about six months time.

Northwind

If you suspect on thursday that you might have broken your ribs again, don't go trailbuilding on saturday followed by going riding then leaping elegantly over your handlebars into a surprisingly un-soft snowdrift. You will regret it on sunday.

cee

foxyourself wrote:

Poor prir preparation leads to wee-wee poor performance

Surely you mean..

"Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents P1ss Poor Performance"

7P's innit

cee

wolftone wrote:

Never try showing off to your kids how fit you are at 44, by racing your 2 year old labradoodle. Now that I have had my humerus and rotator cuff rebuilt, I should be back on my bike in about six months time.

that doesn;t sound very amusing at all.

Northwind

cee wrote:

"Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents P1ss Poor Performance"

It really doesn't, some of us can perform poorly no matter how well we prepared

foxyourself

cee wrote:

foxyourself wrote:

Poor prir preparation leads to wee-wee poor performance

Surely you mean..

"Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents P1ss Poor Performance"

7P's innit

a few of the p's have been edited by admin or a mod...

RichMTB

The unzipped chest pocket of your cycling jacket is NOT a good place to jeep your car keys!

bike-a-swan

it's difficult to trackstand on an upwards slope if your chain has just fallen off without you noticing

dunnnooo

Dirt does not taste nice. At all. Tasting said dirt at different speeds doesn't change it. Nor does doing so from different heights. And whilst different types of dirt taste different, none of them taste nice.

I am not Armstrong, Contador nor any other professional. Despite best intentions, I cannot average 25mph for a whole day, especially not on a MTB.

Don't follow someone if you don't know how good they are. Especially not over jumps at 25mph.

The other half does not like coming second to bikes.

cee

foxyourself wrote:

cee wrote:

foxyourself wrote:

Poor prir preparation leads to wee-wee poor performance

Surely you mean..

"Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents P1ss Poor Performance"

7P's innit

a few of the p's have been edited by admin or a mod...

i am still only counting 6 p's in that version...and as you know...more is better...

@Northwind...absolutely...I have perfromed poorly even after the most arduous of preperation

spongtastic

If you don't feel great and have been taking amox for a chest infection the previous 7 days, do not go out on your bike to 'try and clear the gunk'. Did this last week and ended up collapsing at home and another sunday morning trip to the emergency doctors. I now have a two week ban on going out.

Never drink 2 bottle of red wine when your mates house has white carpet, white sofas, in fact is completely white.

Your children will always learn faster than you. I have a 5 year old who can understand Sudoku or whatever it's called, when all it does is give me a headache.

And you will always think about old girlfriends even when you're much older. Especially if they now look like a dark haired Drew Barrymore.

nomadicbry

rocks hurt and will always win a battle of who's the hardest
trees will not get out your way when cycling towards them even if you go faster and shout
Wheels should be below you not above you when going down steep gradients fast

I like to think of these three rules as the holy trinity of MTBing

ilovedirt

Braking hard on a steep slippery muddy slope covered in dead leaves when heading towards a tree really isn't going to do much. Neither is quickly trying to steer out of it... :roll:

Hercule Q

if you can set fire to a shot of sambuca in your mouth, keep it quiet cos you will regret those twenty shots your mates bought you so you could show other people in the morning

foxyourself

Another one:

It hurts more when you look at it.

lesson: DONT look at the injury, get someone else to assess whether it's A&E or the pub.

HardrockRob

The innocent looking puddle you are about to cycle through at speed is infact a 20 cm deep pothole.

Ouch. Headset in the goolies. :shock: :oops:

cavegiant

Don't suggest on this website that people oil their brakes.

Karma hits and your fork lower gets a crack and pumps oil into your front brake....

crap crap crap./

Anyone want to buy so barley used White Brothers forks?

foxyourself

HardrockRob wrote:

The innocent looking puddle you are about to cycle through at speed is infact a 20 cm deep pothole.

Ouch. Headset in the goolies. :shock: :oops:

HA Done that one but nearly ripped my **** off (I'm a girl.. guess the word)

passout

Never eat yellow snow...

ilovedirt

cavegiant wrote:

Don't suggest on this website that people oil their brakes.

Karma hits and your fork lower gets a crack and pumps oil into your front brake....

crap crap crap./

Anyone want to buy so barley used White Brothers forks?

that's pretty funny

omaha

of course the boardwalk is very slippy! the woods green and it been raining, idiot......

mrgutterbunny

bigmart wrote:

fitted chain wrong way in rear mech (XT), put it wrong side of the tab on the cage, still it did 20miles wearing away the tab, rear mech wend bang on start of next ride

Whoops!!!!

switchback18

Not many chains these days can be split & re-joined the usual way.
KMC are ace but you HAVE to use the power link. SRAM are the same but they don't break quite as quick (maybe after 2 hours instead of 2 mins!). Shimano need the special pins in my experience although many say not. Nothing stopping you joining a Shimano with a powerlink though.

Going back to the original post, after years of never snapping a chain, I broke a SRAM 1st time out & ended up fixing it twice before realising the powerlink is supplied for a reason! At the time I'd read in more than 1 mag that you could join it with a chain tool & keep the powerlink as a spare... Always used KMC since, as they seem the strongest & cheapest.

specialeyes

My cross country bike isn't built for DH!

I am not built for DH!

Wheel builds can be expensive!

I can fly but am sh1te @ landing!

cee

foxyourself wrote:

HardrockRob wrote:

The innocent looking puddle you are about to cycle through at speed is infact a 20 cm deep pothole.

Ouch. Headset in the goolies. :shock: :oops:

HA Done that one but nearly ripped my **** off (I'm a girl.. guess the word)

basket?

cee

foxyourself wrote:

Another one:

It hurts more when you look at it.

lesson: DONT look at the injury, get someone else to assess whether it's A&E or the pub.

+1 see my sig

simonaspinall

Even when wearing full hi-viz, 3 lights on the front of your bike, going along a cycle lane next to a line of stationary traffic you can still wake up in an ambulance because 'a driver didn't see you'

lancj1

a long time ago, 1981, a new Raleigh Racer, 12 speed, black and sexy..

On way to work, down hill, carrier bag with uniform over handlebars.

Bag in wheel at speed, over handlebars, broken elbow, specs smashed when head hit kerb, 64 stitches around left eye and cheek.

Two month off sick. Bike stolen from back of shop that took it in.....

A good days work with permanant scars...

Steve_F

Ice is slippy

Flying isn't bad

Hitting a tree hurts, a lot.


One from my younger days, it is really not easy to steer a bike using your hands on the wrong handlebars.

Aldo001

Steve_F wrote:

One from my younger days, it is really not easy to steer a bike using your hands on the wrong handlebars.

Very true. I tried this once when I was wee... Nigh on faceplant into the road