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Make me feel better.
I'm currently stood getting quite cold outside my office waiting for Mrs brain to arrive and pick me up unable to go back inside where it's warm as i handed my keys to another for opening up i the morning (so i didn't have get up half an hour early).
The reason - as i prepared to swing a leg over my bike, after everyone else has gone home, i spotted a thorn in muy tear tyre, or could have been there for months, could i leave it be? No. Did i bring a spare tube to work? No. Did i end up with a puddle of sealant on the floor? Yes. Did I think "don't do it" then do it anyway? Yes, yes i did. Do i feel more stupid than i do cold. Yes.
I've done a similar thing with thorn in a tubeless tyre mid-ride and was more disappointed in the sealant than my stupidity.
Drink a few too many beers and then scrounge fags 🙁
APF
I’m currently stood getting quite cold outside my office waiting
It’s so warm and muggy here in tropical Swansea that all of the doors and windows are open and I’m still sweating when I move. HTH. 😁
It does jon, i can't tell you how glad i am i don't live in Swansea. Way to take one for the team.
...was more disappointed in the sealant than my stupidity.
I remember being disappointed in sealant once. I'd bottomed out my tyre on a pointy rock, which then produced a Catherine wheel esque spray of sealant as the wheel rotated. Thinking the fountain of latex meant my tyre had completely deflated but was still firm because of the (wide) hucknorris I'd put in it being a poor fit in the skinny tyre - which it was - trail side, tube in hand, absolutely knackered, freezing cold, swearing at stans for failing to seal yet again, i hooked the the levers under the tyre bead and lifted. At that exact moment i remembered the hucknorris had been such a poor fit i took it back out before i even got the tyre inflated so it clearly want what was making my tyre feel solid, which meant the stans had sealed the hole and the form tyre was the result of 35 or so psi being exerted on the inside of the sealed tyre by quite a lot of air and seemingly still rather a lot of stans. Fortunately the realisation came about half a second before the bang and acompanying tsunami of white goo giving me enough time to close eyes and mouth but alas not get out of the way.
I'm no longer disappointed with sealant, I've come to the conclusion it's purpose in the universe is to really annoy me and make me look like a wally. It's too good at both those things to be disappointed with it.
Only a couple of years back I was cleaning the discs on my brakes and got too near the caliper on the front which drew my finger in like a bacon slicer ..going through the nail bed and leaving a fair bit of my first finger / right hand dangling in the breeze ..stitches to fix it back together ..but it is permanently mis-shapen and has lost all feeling in the tip ..to this day I can't believe what a complete dick I was ..
Checking whether food is hot by putting a finger in.
Ever wrapped you hand around a chain with a cloth and rotated the cranks backwards to clean it?
Don't ever do that with a fixed gear. Ball hair away from losing a finger tip.
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Only a couple of years back I was cleaning the discs on my brakes and got too near the caliper on the front which drew my finger in like a bacon slicer ..going through the nail bed and leaving a fair bit of my first finger / right hand dangling in the breeze ..stitches to fix it back together ..but it is permanently mis-shapen and has lost all feeling in the tip ..to this day I can’t believe what a complete dick I was ..
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I did that! Pulled the nail bed out. That but wasn't too sore.
Stories A&E pushed it back in tho, <i>that</i> was sore!!
Checking whether food is hot by putting a finger in
Don't ask me how I know, but there are definitely more stupid things to put in for testing purposes.
How about....
My SIster-in-Laws car, she's complaining that the front brakes are making a wierd scraping noise as four of us descend an extremely long, steep hill. Pull over at the bottom says I and I'll take a look - "I design brakes don'tcha know" (****!!)
I hop out of the car and grab the tyre and attempt to turn the wheel so I can see the disc/caliper. In grabbing the tyre my four finger tips contact the extremely hot disc and come out looking and smelling like cooked chicken.
It took weeks for the skin to grow back and for it to fully heal 😀
....and for everyone to stop laughing!
I wasted a CO2 cylinder keeping a tubeless trye up in the face of a non-sealing puncture, in the hope that it would seal.
Then I had to pump it up by hand in a race...
voting for brexit ?
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Not me but my brother - twice has put his finger into a disc or around the edge cutting it straight after reading the warnings specifically not to do this due to the risk of injury when the wheel is rotating (and thinking "you'd have to be sooo stupid to do that").
For me it's usually saying "watch this!" before attempting something tricky.