My cassette ate my bungee!

brooksby

So I had a bungee strapped from the bottom of one dog-leg on my rack, over the top and down to the other side (holding my supplementary cable for my u-lock). I'd thought that was a more user-friendly way of using the cord, after spending fifteen minutes mucking about on Friday wrapping a cord tightly around trying to secure my jacket after I took it off.

Suddenly I hear this sproing-spoing xylophone sound, pull over, and look down. One end (behind my pannier) is still secured to the rack. The other end really isn't... The hook was completely straightened out, and the elastic was wound several times around several of my sprockets, jamming up the derailleur and chain.

I could freewheel, but couldn't pedal. So after a few minutes trying to clear the elastic myself by the side of the road I admitted defeat and had to walk my bike down into town and beg an appointment from my LBS. Now sorted, but what a pain as a first-thing-Monday-morning commute!

There's no real point to this, I just wanted to share :-(

cyclingprop

There's a reason no bike shop sells bungees

Kieran_Burns

cyclingprop wrote:

There's a reason no bike shop sells bungees

Yeah, the customers keep coming back to complain....

mtb-idle

Kieran_Burns wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

There's a reason no bike shop sells bungees

Yeah, the customers keep coming back to complain....

Don't spring that one on us son

Initialised

MTB-Idle wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

There's a reason no bike shop sells bungees

Yeah, the customers keep coming back to complain....

Don't spring that one on us son

Cordn't have put it better myself.

Kieran_Burns

Initialised wrote:

MTB-Idle wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

There's a reason no bike shop sells bungees

Yeah, the customers keep coming back to complain....

Don't spring that one on us son

Cordn't have put it better myself.

Give me enough rope....

essex-commuter

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Initialised wrote:

MTB-Idle wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

There's a reason no bike shop sells bungees

Yeah, the customers keep coming back to complain....

Don't spring that one on us son

Cordn't have put it better myself.

Give me enough rope....

At least it happened in the Spring.

Kieran_Burns

essex-commuter wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Initialised wrote:

MTB-Idle wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

There's a reason no bike shop sells bungees

Yeah, the customers keep coming back to complain....

Don't spring that one on us son

Cordn't have put it better myself.

Give me enough rope....

At least it happened in the Spring.

You're just bouncing the same joke as before back again....

essex-commuter

Kieran_Burns wrote:

essex-commuter wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Initialised wrote:

MTB-Idle wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

There's a reason no bike shop sells bungees

Yeah, the customers keep coming back to complain....

Don't spring that one on us son

Cordn't have put it better myself.

Give me enough rope....

At least it happened in the Spring.

You're just bouncing the same joke as before back again....

Give me some slack, I'm on the rebound.

mtb-idle

Oi! KB, you don't get off the hook that easily

essex-commuter

essex-commuter wrote:

Give me some slack, I'm on the rebound.

Dumped her cos she had a coil fitted. Shabooom!

Kieran_Burns

MTB-Idle wrote:

Oi! KB, you don't get off the hook that easily

Oh yes I do:

http://youtu.be/tymkiTVOciY

and with that I win the internet 8)