What's your most successful MacGyver move on the trail?
What's your most successful MacGyver move on the trail?
We bent a rim on the Oregon BDR bad enough that it wouldn’t hold air last summer. There was next to nothing near us so we tried to straighten the rim. All we could find was a rock and a cow bone, which surprisingly held up to repeated smashing. So our method was - Step 1; support and hit the rim as hard as you can. Step 2; give up and install a tube. It was worth a shot, but no way that rim was going anywhere without a hydraulic press.
hahah love it.
Per the title: I had a clutch cable break on me. I was lucky enough to find some bundling twine, and then a bolt, on the side of the road. Tightned up the bolt around long end of the clutch cable then lashed it to the lever. I had to seriously adjust the play so that it was probably just barley past the engagement point at relax, but it got me home and didn't burn out the clutch. I call that a win.
I now run double cables lol.
Pretty serious improvisation right there!
haha best learning experience ever. An extra cable costs you like $6, and damn near zero time when running one (I just zip tie mine together). You have to be careful of ware/pinch points but it's worked out for me.
You had that didn't work, would have been a neat story to tell. Why is the brake disc so close to the rim on the front wheel?
It’s a Buell Ulysses. OG adventure bike. It has one rotor in front, attached to the rim. It’s weird but it works. Eric Buell was a visionary.
More leverage for better braking?