what ingenious trail fixes/ bodges have you done to get home

sloppycowpat

hehe snapped my chain today up in robins wood ended up cutting some barbed wire off a wall to wrap round links to get home and it worked, had a bit of a knee to stem incident though...ouch!! :oops:

just thought it would be cool to know what trail side fix ideas/ bodges that you have come up with

Raymondavalon

Stuck a full pack of Leeches repair patches over a tear in the tube, including overlapping them. Still leaked air, but very slowly and got me home

Also snapped the saddle rail tension bolt on my Joplin seatpost from over tightening it. Used a spare seat clamp bolt and lever to get me around Cannock for a two [weekend] days while I awaited the new one from Chase Cycles who ordered one for me.

paul.skibum

Strapped my bike to my back pack and walked back to the car once when I taco'd the front wheel beyond recognition. Does that count?

chedabob

My mates seat clamp broke on the first ride and wouldn't do up tight enough to clamp the rails, so we ended up stuffing a bunch of twigs in the clamp.

The Real Radioactiveman

Very small cable tie used in place of the leaf spring type of the newer pro 2 freehub

Tyre lever to repair a mangled rear mech.

covelove

Lost a bolt off the chainstay on my kona half way down the mega avalanche route. put an allen key through the hole and cabled tied it to the frame until i could rob a few bolts of a ski lift a few km's down!!

sloppycowpat

paul.skibum, i think it counts sort of

how come you didn't try cave manning it?

bashing it on ground and using rocks etc ive done that before on the rims from an 06 carrera fury i.e cheese rims

sloppycowpat

i still think my favourite bodge was using pine needles to fill up a tyre when my pump decided to die, put some in a half seated tyre, patted it shook it repeat etc then put rest of tyre on an rode home on that, one guy who went past was pissing himself up the trail after we realised his pump wouldn't fit presta valves

paul.skibum

sloppycowpat wrote:

paul.skibum, i think it counts sort of

how come you didn't try cave manning it?

bashing it on ground and using rocks etc ive done that before on the rims from an 06 carrera fury i.e cheese rims

Front folded over and was at 90 degrees at the hub - I tried bending it back wedging it in a fork in a tree so I could wheel it back - couldnt get it anywhere near straight enough to even roll in the fork.

I've done the single speed with broken mech as chain tensioner thing and duck taped tyres before as well but they are common repairs. Not really had many major problems riding which given my maintenance and cleaning standards (of my bike not me) is a miracle.

diy

- Converted to single speed when I snapped the mech hanger and mangled the mech.
- cable tied my rear brake on when I lost one of the bolts.
- used a lolly stick to reinforce a rim on a mates bike after he'd taken a massive lump out of it.

Markmjh

i used Duct tape and all the allen keys i could get my hands on after snapping my old GT Tequesta frame coming off a large drop! Managed to hold it together wo well i left it as was and used it as a commuter for about 6 moths

mattyboy199

once fixed a chain that snapped with a pair of cable cutters & flat headscrew driver, impressive i thought

BigChimping

Taped my rear mech cage together when it snapped done a bloody good job too.


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NatoED

i've done the whole grass in my tyre when an inner tube went pop

bike-a-swan

http://bikemagic.com/gear/how-to/maintenance/page/6

Some interesting uses of cable ties and sticks in there

stubs

Whittled a stick down to replace a jockey wheel bolt. Pushed up the hills freewheeled down and only pedalled gently but managed about 10 miles before it went and we were nearly back at car by then.