When all else fails........

[JoeSurge]

Have you ever been checking over your bike and notice something is lose like a cup on your bottom bracket for example. this is usually very simple thing to fix but to get to that cup you must first take off the cranks, again usually no problem but then you realise "ooooh this little bugger seems to be a bit Stouborn" you then try the other crank hoping that if you get one off then the other will magically fall off. The bolt comes off easily but then when you try and pull it off (i dont have a crank extractor) you realise that this crank arm is also being a little bitch, so you decide to get the WD-40 and give it another go. after that you start to get a little angry and hope a few words of encouragement will ease it off "COME ON YOU F###ING BA##ARD!" but still not a twtich now this is when ingenuity mixes with anger and you decide to search your shed for some "help" and then you find the rubber mallet!
after many miuntes of excesive banging the crank finally falls off and you pick it up and shout at it as if you have beaten an inanimate object (well done me) but now for the other crank you try once again with your intherior alan key and finally decide "F#ck it" you once again you go in search of "help" and you find the impact driver basically in short never use an impact driver to get a crank bolt off well anyways after that long account of the genious ways i "fix" my bike i would like to see if anyone also has any "genious" ways of "fixing" your bike :)

[ace]

I dont get stressed, i take it to Ratchet and enjoy the look of horror on his face as he works out how to fix something that i shouldnt have broken (with normal use :)

Big hammer, Big vice, Big adjustable spanner should be standard tools for everyone.


dont use a screwdriver to drift off a square taper chainset, it wont work, i snapped the screwdriver, then got ratchet to do it down the bike shop.

[Ratchet]

Nessary tools. Screw drivers, allen keys, Spanners, samll, med, large and fecking huge adjustables, bb removal tool, Cass removal tool, small, med, large, and lump hammers, extention bar and for those little things that are stubborn? A Blowtorch. Yep just the bunny.

[JoeSurge]

Yep lmao we tried all that xD still didnt come off in the end had to use a grinder to cut through BB and borrow my mates bb and cranks( we kinda destroyed them to) wouldnt have used it in normal conditions but i was going to cwmcarn the next morning and it was already like 10:40 in the night so we got a bit desperate...... and after all that the uplift was canceld