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Cooked front pannier
I had the MTB/Commuter on the bike beak this
weekend along with my wife's bike. I've done it plenty of times before but this time, my right front pannier was too close to the exhaust. When we got home, smell of burning plastic/rubber and one wrecked pannier. There was a rag inside the pannier which was badly scaled - it looked like it could have caught fire. Note that this was from the fumes, there was no contact with the exhaust pipe itself. Made me think about what other damage the exhaust could do if aimed at the wrong part of a bike (tire, alloy rim, paint anywhere. Will be more careful in future and there is *no way* I'm putting the CF road bike on a beak, ever. DeF. -- e-mail: To reply, you'll have to remove finger. |
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DeF wrote: Made me think about what other damage the exhaust could do if aimed at the wrong part of a bike (tire, alloy rim, paint anywhere. Will be more careful in future and there is *no way* I'm putting the CF road bike on a beak, ever. possible heat damage aside, I'd never clamp a CF bike around an area that it's not meant to bear stresses. Ie: the top tube is not meant to get crushed or deal with the stresses that it being fixed in the middle will generate when you go over bumps etc. Keep it on the roof or inside |
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Bleve wrote:
DeF wrote: Made me think about what other damage the exhaust could do if aimed at the wrong part of a bike (tire, alloy rim, paint anywhere. Will be more careful in future and there is *no way* I'm putting the CF road bike on a beak, ever. possible heat damage aside, I'd never clamp a CF bike around an area that it's not meant to bear stresses. Ie: the top tube is not meant to get crushed or deal with the stresses that it being fixed in the middle will generate when you go over bumps etc. Keep it on the roof or inside My bike travels inside the car, leaving me room for one passenger if I keep the wheels on (yep, both, awesome hatch) or two passengers if I take both wheels off. Any additional PAX get to sit on the roof ;-) Tam |
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Bleve wrote:
DeF wrote: Made me think about what other damage the exhaust could do if aimed at the wrong part of a bike (tire, alloy rim, paint anywhere. Will be more careful in future and there is *no way* I'm putting the CF road bike on a beak, ever. possible heat damage aside, I'd never clamp a CF bike around an area that it's not meant to bear stresses. Ie: the top tube is not meant to get crushed or deal with the stresses that it being fixed in the middle will generate when you go over bumps etc. Keep it on the roof or inside I concur, the bike goes inside somehow, even if this means taking both wheels off. I don't like putting a bike on the roof. Once when I did this, the driver of the car (not me) forgot and drove under a low carport (before I could speak) catching the back of the seat of the bike. The roof-rack was bent down into the roof of the car (where the forks were attached) and the toe-clip holding the rear wheel down snapped with a bang. Besides bent seat rails, the bike was apparently unharmed by this. Bike frames are amazingly strong. Another bike-laden car incident involves bike on beak and speed humps. Car goes over bump too fast (again, not me driving!), bike gets smashed into ground buckling two wheels (no broken spokes) and scratching paint. The joins on the rims moved so braking was ga-dunk-ga-dunk. The wheels were never true again. No damage to the frame or forks though. By the way, both bikes have steel frames. It pains me to relive these traumatic events! DeF -- e-mail: To reply, you'll have to remove finger. |
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Cooked front pannier
Thanks for the head up about the exhaut. It wasn't something I had even contemplated but I will be aware now when I put the bikes on the rack. -- SuzieB |
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