OMG - so it is true I am a dork. I have one of those on my Trek bike and always wondered what it was for. My other road bike Im pleased to say doesnt have one so the upside is I only look dorky half of the time.:D
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OMG - so it is true I am a dork. I have one of those on my Trek bike and always wondered what it was for. My other road bike Im pleased to say doesnt have one so the upside is I only look dorky half of the time.:D
I just went on a hunt around the office and found 3 dork disks, on a Bianchi and 2 Treks. Funny thing is, none of the company web sites show dork disks on the bikes. Not at Trek, not at Bianchi, not at Kona). So the companies don't advertise their dork disks, they just quietly slip them in. Maybe their lawyers make them do it.
I found 2 different styles of dork disk: a clear plastic piece only 2 inches wide clipped to the spokes (looks very easy to destructively remove) and a wide black (plastic?) disk, much of which is behind the cassette. Those might be hard to remove without removing the cassette first, unless they break easily. The old 10-speed spoke guard would not come off without removing the freewheel, as the inner part was metal and fit tightly around the hub.
its a conspiracy i say! :eek: trying to make us look like dorks!
This thread is cracking me up! I will have to go look and see if Sasha has a dork disc on her when I get home. If so, I will ask DH to remove it--I'm sure he has a cassette tool in his pile of bike stuff. Certainly can't have my sweet Bianchi looking dorky:p
Yikes! I have a dork disk behind the cassette on my hybird Fuji Sagres -- the lowest end bike I have. Since I don't ride it much, I am not sure it's worth taking off. Hmmm. I better not tell my 12 year old daughter that it is a "dork" disk or she won't ride it for sure. :D
What if it is really called a dork disk cause people run home and try to remove them, which can be quite hard if you don't know how to remove the cassette? I can just see all these poor people struggling to take something off just because! I think that is more dorky than just leaving it on.
five years and almost 25,000 miles later, my bike still has its' original dork disc in the back. If I don't choose to worry about it or think of myself as a dork, then I shouldn't give a flip about what others think or say, unless they can prove to me that they are a) earning their live living by riding their bikes professionally, or b) can outnumber in miles ridden in a five year period along with number of cross country rides and vertical feet ridden while crossing back and forth.
screw em if they can't take a joke.
Still a dork in some peoples minds obviously. I am reminded of a pithy church sign seen locally- "throwing mud at a good person makes you dirty."
My Trek, Giant and the stock wheel set on my Fuji all have them - only the Easton wheel set I bought after market doesn't have one. I'm with mumbles on where the term came from :)
And as for removing reflectors, too, the wrench at the LBS did take the one off the rear wheel of my Fuji while doing a minor repair in the field. I'm all about visibility, and my commuter lights up like a dang Christmas tree!!