dumb things you've done to your bike

Forgot the BB spacer when pounding my bottom bracket in. Card in spokes.

Back when I was 10 I thought I was cool because I angled the seat on my Mongoose straight up. Seriously straight up.

Home-made hub guard using a pepsi can?

LOL

Well I tried to put a standard headset into a integrated frame, because I thought that I HAD to use the same headset with the forks, turns out I just ended up breaking the headset and a week later I broke my new frame (with the integrated) and had no headset for my old frame.

powder coated my big W bike because I thought it would make it "custom"
once I sprayed my whole bike black without taking any of the parts off.
if i think of moe ill edit them in to this post

only thing i can think of is when i was like 13 i put my race wheels from my 20" on my Rocket (1 of 100 made) 24" cruiser race frame and i ended up bending a dropout somehow and while trying to bend it back i managed to break it...1 of 100 made, ruined...turned it into a trampoline bike after that.

haha everything i do is dumb to my bike.

sbc785 wrote:

only thing i can think of is when i was like 13 i put my race wheels from my 20" on my Rocket (1 of 100 made) 24" cruiser race ...more

sbc785 wrote:

only thing i can think of is when i was like 13 i put my race wheels from my 20" on my Rocket (1 of 100 made) 24" cruiser race frame and i ended up bending a dropout somehow and while trying to bend it back i managed to break it...1 of 100 made, ruined...turned it into a trampoline bike after that.

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messaged you my number but never got a reply. 2488078878 hmu

put a 12 in. wheel on my forks. soooooo fun to mess around on.

soda can in the back tire, dirt bike noises thru the trails for dayss!
rubber in cranks to keep em from moving while doing tailwhips
when i first got a spoke wrench i tighted allll my spokes alll the way tight on my front wheel one spoke at a time rather than alternating and ended up with a taco.

Threw it at dented my TT the size of half my fist

cable tying my seat to the frame to look cool..

not doing that again

Buying an odsy elementary 1 stem
bottle-cap bar ends
shoe laces on my hubs to keep them 'clean'
1.95 rear with 2.25 front

onsomeshit.

chucked a 40z mickey bottle at my bike. dented the shit out of the dowtube. hah

pc seat was the dumbest thing ive done next to trading my cult for a killorado

Tried to fit a internal headset into a frame that uses a integrated headset, hammered the fuck out of it until the thing broke and I realised I needed a integrated headset.

I think everyone has done this at one stage in their life, tried taking the pedal off but spent 2 hours tightening the fuck out of it.

Tried to remove a bottom bracket by using a screwdriver and hitting where the side of the bearings were, complete destroyed that.

Tried to cut brand new brake cables with scissors, ended up destroying the cable.

Stripped the bolts of a brand new stem.

Bought a new stem and sanded it down the first day because i changed my mind on the colour, painted it, turned out shit.

Tried to remove a chain by snapping it, then when i put it on my bike i realised it was bent.

super glued valve caps so no one would steal them.

Plenty more stupid shit from when i started riding to now, but hey we all gotta learn somehow hahaha.

The time I bought my first pair of after market forks and didn't know about compression systems on your headset so I rode a mega loose fork pounding the headtube headset for half a year. Bought brand new profile GDHs when they came out and cross threaded the axle. and the first time I put a hubguard on a female axle and I didn't like it so I tread beating it off the axle with a screwdriver and stripped my axle, I DONT KNOW HOW! The time I first started and couldn't work on a bike because i didn't know about left pedal threads being opposite so i threw a hammer at my bike. the time i couldnt get a tire off so i used a knife and cut it off.. there's so much stuff

stupidest thing i have ever done was 2/3 years ago on an old semi sealed cassette hub which i wanted to make louder (yeah i know i went through that moment, don't judge) and so i took it a part and all the loose balls were all around the place and it took me like a week to build it back up

I only have one, but its pretty good. So I just started bmxing, and had a okay used custom complete. It had worn to shit purple eastern crowns so I ordered new ones. Took the old ones out and went to put the new ones in. I saw that they had a R and a L but I ignored it and put them in opposite because I thought they were wrong. So I put them in backwards and it wasn't very smooth so I got a wrench and tightened the shit out of them backwards. So I was impressed with myself. Rode to school next morning and they felt a weird. So I asked my friend about them and I was like maybe they're supposed to be like odyssey twisteds cause they felt all crooked and shit and weird. My friend looks at them and starts laughing and said they're backwards. We went back to my house and and took the pedals out. THERE WAS NO THRED IN THE CRANKS. ahahah, it was so bad I was laughing myself. You could slide the pedals in and out no problem. So I had to get new cranks which I was happy about because they were piece of shit 8 splines.

Anyways, don't argue with pedals.

FreddyDapice wrote:

I only have one, but its pretty good. So I just started bmxing, and had a okay used custom complete. It had worn to shit ...more

FreddyDapice wrote:

I only have one, but its pretty good. So I just started bmxing, and had a okay used custom complete. It had worn to shit purple eastern crowns so I ordered new ones. Took the old ones out and went to put the new ones in. I saw that they had a R and a L but I ignored it and put them in opposite because I thought they were wrong. So I put them in backwards and it wasn't very smooth so I got a wrench and tightened the shit out of them backwards. So I was impressed with myself. Rode to school next morning and they felt a weird. So I asked my friend about them and I was like maybe they're supposed to be like odyssey twisteds cause they felt all crooked and shit and weird. My friend looks at them and starts laughing and said they're backwards. We went back to my house and and took the pedals out. THERE WAS NO THRED IN THE CRANKS. ahahah, it was so bad I was laughing myself. You could slide the pedals in and out no problem. So I had to get new cranks which I was happy about because they were piece of shit 8 splines.

Anyways, don't argue with pedals.

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something similar happened to me but actually while riding, and i could get my pedal in and out just by pulling

FreddyDapice wrote:

I only have one, but its pretty good. So I just started bmxing, and had a okay used custom complete. It had worn to shit ...more

FreddyDapice wrote:

I only have one, but its pretty good. So I just started bmxing, and had a okay used custom complete. It had worn to shit purple eastern crowns so I ordered new ones. Took the old ones out and went to put the new ones in. I saw that they had a R and a L but I ignored it and put them in opposite because I thought they were wrong. So I put them in backwards and it wasn't very smooth so I got a wrench and tightened the shit out of them backwards. So I was impressed with myself. Rode to school next morning and they felt a weird. So I asked my friend about them and I was like maybe they're supposed to be like odyssey twisteds cause they felt all crooked and shit and weird. My friend looks at them and starts laughing and said they're backwards. We went back to my house and and took the pedals out. THERE WAS NO THRED IN THE CRANKS. ahahah, it was so bad I was laughing myself. You could slide the pedals in and out no problem. So I had to get new cranks which I was happy about because they were piece of shit 8 splines.

Anyways, don't argue with pedals.

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andyferly wrote:

something similar happened to me but actually while riding, and i could get my pedal in and out just by pulling

andyferly wrote:

something similar happened to me but actually while riding, and i could get my pedal in and out just by pulling

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Yea, I could push it in and out with my hand.

Not a BMX, but once on my Mountain Bike I oiled the Discs up.

Got drunk and had a friend try and cut the crossbar of my bars off with hedge clippers. Put a nasty dent in the bars but broke the clippers.
Forced a chain on a couple times without realizing it was on my driver. That's always fun to fix.

I've done A LOT of stupid shit to my bike.

BMX_Forever wrote:

Not a BMX, but once on my Mountain Bike I oiled the Discs up.

BMX_Forever wrote:

Not a BMX, but once on my Mountain Bike I oiled the Discs up.

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lol

Ive put the same set of tyres on backwards 3 times one day
Tried to front flip into a river off a kicker ramp
Put brakes back on
Used a 22mm bottom bracket with 19mm cranks
Ran two back pegs and one in the front not to carry kids but to do oppo feeble 180's.

Bombing a 1-mile hill without brakes.

put my chain on with the anti roll pin on the inside of the dropout pushing the back wheel far back and making my chain really tight.

had to take my front end off to stuff in a car, drove 2 hours to find out i forgot my stem and haedset...

just last week:
laced up ma front wheel
trued it
put tube and tire on
pump it up all the way with hand pump(to late for air com.)
put peg on, tighten wheel in forks
sit down
look at bike
job well done
see rim strip laying on floor
look at bike
shake head

future FBM wrote:

had to take my front end off to stuff in a car, drove 2 hours to find out i forgot my stem and haedset...

future FBM wrote:

had to take my front end off to stuff in a car, drove 2 hours to find out i forgot my stem and haedset...

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my friend did that same thing only he forgot his whole front wheel.. ended up just going to a bike shop and buying a new one haha




Just remembered this one, I stripped a set of cranks out cause they said they were LHD/RHD compatible so I thought that meant you could flip em around and put the pedals in the same way so they're facing the correct way, did that and rode with them like that for like a week before they came loose all the time.. eventually I took them out there was no thread in the one crank arm but the other side was fine? it was weird. I always assumed it was cause they were aluminum (odyssey black widows) and they just stripped out from normal riding, never put 2 & 2 together until just last year and that was back in 07 hahaha I felt fuckin stupid