So, you think /YOU'RE/ badass?

[JennyB]

8) 8)
More here

 

[Drunkskunk]

Now that's Badass.

 

[NeilP]

 

[gestalt]

anything seems bad ass next to a guy wearing sandals with socks on but this is truly an amazing bike fix. I can only hope to one day get to employ it successfully.

that bespectacled old man with grimace on your grave you whippersnapper.

 

[NeilP]

Another badass old gent is this guy

Maurice Kirk..flying vet

http://kirkflyingvet.com/content/About.aspx

met him once flying out of Jersey, flown round the world in a piper Cub, landing on beaches, running out of fuel , allsorts of wild stories from this guy..locked uo in Uk prison now I hear, fighting the establsihment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2015340.stm

http://mauricejohnkirk.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/is-maurice-kirk-doomed-to-die-in-prison-refused-glasses-bail-and-any-other-human-rights/

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=maurice+Kirk&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

this guy is a legend

 

[Doctorbass]

Or... you did the same ride and had the same problem execpt that instead of using coke can, you used some welding rod and welded your steel fork with your ebike battery 8)

Doc

 

[salty9]

Dude looks like Ronnie Wood the last time I saw him on Top Gear.

 

[John in CR]

Or... you did the same ride and had the same problem execpt that instead of using coke can, you used some welding rod and welded your steel fork with your ebike battery 8)
Doc

Welding rod??? Gotta do it with a coat hanger to get all the way into the ebadass category.

 

[Toorbough ULL-Zeveigh]

pfft, chalo has broken more frames than this welterweight has hairs left on his head.

oh, i'm sorry... at first read i thought it said bigass.

 

[Chalo]

There are plenty of stupendous badasses to go around:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_St%C3%BCcke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Hoffman
http://microship.com/resources/winnebiko-behemoth.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervla_Murphy

The good news is that most of us have what it takes, physically, to be this kind of badass. We lack only the commitment.

 

[bigmoose]

Jenny posted the link but here is the excerpt: Kudo's to an ol' guy with more strength, stamina and guts then me!!

His frame broke in a ride-ending kind of way, but of course it didn't end George's ride. He beat a drink-can into a shim, strapped it on with zip-ties, rode 500 km like that and finished the event. Someone who tried his bike at the end said it didn't feel like you could ride across the car-park on it, far less 500 km.

 

[The fingers]

I fixed my tailpipe once with a beer can.

 

[dogman dan]

First of all, I'm quite suprised that an old school steel frame like that ever broke in the first place. The rest of the frame was still pretty strong though, to handle a ride after a fix like that.

Just try to do that with a typical wallbike frame. I bet you'd have another part of the frame snap or bend pretty quick.

Love it that the guy didn't quit.

 

[-dg]

First of all, I'm quite suprised that an old school steel frame like that ever broke in the first place.

I'm a big fan of steel frames, but they do break. I've broken one myself. The top tube had buried cable routing and it cracked in front of the seat post at the hole for the cable exit. Putting big holes in frame tubes = bad idea. The thing is though, the bike creaked for about a month and handled funny for a couple weeks before I saw the crack which was 3/4 around the tube by then. I still rode it home. The big advantage of steel is not that it never breaks, but that it tends to do so in manageable ways instead of suddenly dropping you into a pile of sharp edged carbon sticks in the middle of an intersection.

 

[Joseph C.]

Another badass old gent is this guy

Maurice Kirk..flying vet

http://kirkflyingvet.com/content/About.aspx

met him once flying out of Jersey, flown round the world in a piper Cub, landing on beaches, running out of fuel , allsorts of wild stories from this guy..locked uo in Uk prison now I hear, fighting the establsihment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2015340.stm

http://mauricejohnkirk.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/is-maurice-kirk-doomed-to-die-in-prison-refused-glasses-bail-and-any-other-human-rights/

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=maurice+Kirk&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

this guy is a legend

Some one who beats up women is certainly not a legend.

 

[dogman dan]

Yeah, makes you wonder how many miles he rode with the crack in it. 2-3 years mabye? I never broke a frame like that myself, even back when I pedaled hard in my youth.

 

[veloman]

I'd be shitting my pants on any bumpy downhill with that damage. Great way to have your bike split in half and go face first into the asphalt.

 

[Hillhater]

I'd be shitting my pants on any bumpy downhill with that damage. Great way to have your bike split in half and go face first into the asphalt.

Its called having confidence in your own work !
Just think how much confidence you put in some unknown , underpaid, poorly equipped, Chinese worker, who welded that fork steerer tube on your bike !

 

[Chalo]

I'd be shitting my pants on any bumpy downhill with that damage. Great way to have your bike split in half and go face first into the asphalt.

Its called having confidence in your own work !
Just think how much confidence you put in some unknown , underpaid, poorly equipped, Chinese worker, who welded that fork steerer tube on your bike !

The alarming thing about that field repair is that the downtube is under tension when ridden. A piece of beer can and a handful of zip ties can do nothing to resist tension on that tube. They can keep it aligned, but they can't keep the broken ends from pulling apart.

I broke the top tube of one of my touring bikes the other day. I was able to get where I was going because the top tube is under compression when ridden. I then got some duct tape from a friend and aligned the broken tube ends with it to get home. I was riding very gently, but there was little risk of subsequent failures in the frame because the break was self-closing.

A broken downtube causes its tension to be transferred to the top tube as bending instead. If his top tube had buckled, he'd almost certainly have suffered a serious crash. It's definitely riding the line between "old and badass" and "old and crazy".

 

[Farfle]

I'd be shitting my pants on any bumpy downhill with that damage. Great way to have your bike split in half and go face first into the asphalt.

Its called having confidence in your own work !
Just think how much confidence you put in some unknown , underpaid, poorly equipped, Chinese worker, who welded that fork steerer tube on your bike !

The alarming thing about that field repair is that the downtube is under tension when ridden. A piece of beer can and a handful of zip ties can do nothing to resist tension on that tube. They can keep it aligned, but they can't keep the broken ends from pulling apart.

I broke the top tube of one of my touring bikes the other day. I was able to get where I was going because the top tube is under compression when ridden. I then got some duct tape from a friend and aligned the broken tube ends with it to get home. I was riding very gently, but there was little risk of subsequent failures in the frame because the break was self-closing.

A broken downtube causes its tension to be transferred to the top tube as bending instead. If his top tube had buckled, he'd almost certainly have suffered a serious crash. It's definitely riding the line between "old and badass" and "old and crazy".

I bet that cable had a lot to do with why it didn't fail...