Fred?

[Thorn]

Um, what's a "dork disc"?

The circle of plastic or metal that sits between the largest gear in your rear sproket and the spokes. The purpose, I believe, is to prevent the chain from dropping into the spokes if you overshift.

I have yet to remove my dork disc. Maybe if I get a Seven, I'd feel different, but mine doesn't make any noise. There was a previous thread that talked about cutting it off. I'm so mechanically dis-inclined I'd probably succeed in cutting a spoke.

[KayTee]

OK, got it now - thanks!

[smilingcat]

The circle of plastic or metal that sits between the largest gear in your rear sproket and the spokes. The purpose, I believe, is to prevent the chain from dropping into the spokes if you overshift.

I have yet to remove my dork disc. Maybe if I get a Seven, I'd feel different, but mine doesn't make any noise. There was a previous thread that talked about cutting it off. I'm so mechanically dis-inclined I'd probably succeed in cutting a spoke.

You don't have to cut off the dork disk. That's really dorky. Just remove the cluster and the disk should just come off.

Speaking of which, one of the fuuniest sight I've seen over the years back in the days of freewheels. A FRED was happily riding his bike, it was making some fuuny sound as he rode. It was sounding rather odd, so I rode next to him for a while listening and looking for the sound. The smallest cogs screwed into the rest of the freewheel body and it had unscrewed itself. So there it was two sets of cogs just dangling on the skewer... It turns out he never rode in the smallest of cogs. The four lowest gears were fine. Top two was unusable in that state.

[Mr. Bloom]

Speaking of which, one of the fuuniest sight I've seen over the years back in the days of freewheels.

What is "freewheels"?

[lph]

So there it was two sets of cogs just dangling on the skewer... It turns out he never rode in the smallest of cogs. The four lowest gears were fine. Top two was unusable in that state.

This reminds me of the time I was working on my bike outside, and one of neighbours comes along with a worried look and asks shyly if I can take a look at her son's bike, because "it doesn't work".

Apart from the flat, which I offered to help her fix a day I had a bit more time, it turns out that whoever had put the bike together - I'm assuming some bargain store - had just attached the derailleur cable at the shifter end, found out it was really really long, and instead of adjusting it to the right length and cutting off the slack had wrapped it around the frame until it was "short enough".

"Hey, he has a derailleur! He doesn't need to actually USE it!"

[Jenn]

Ok, so the jist of Fred is it is pretty Fubard eh? I learned ALOT from this post and I also laughed my Fred butt off!

[li10up]

I'm trying to de-Fred my new bike of a seat bag. Does anyone know of an in-jersey pocket case of some sort for tube, patches, tire levers, co2?

I like the looks of no seat bag; plus, this way I don't have to switch my stuff between bikes.

[7rider]

I'm trying to de-Fred my new bike of a seat bag. Does anyone know of an in-jersey pocket case of some sort for tube, patches, tire levers, co2?

I like the looks of no seat bag; plus, this way I don't have to switch my stuff between bikes.

A ziploc bag?

[li10up]

A ziploc bag?

Too Fred.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I'm trying to de-Fred my new bike of a seat bag. Does anyone know of an in-jersey pocket case of some sort for tube, patches, tire levers, co2?

"Hump?....What hump?"
-Young Frankenstein

[li10up]

"Hump?....What hump?"
-Young Frankenstein

I travel light. It wouldn't be much of a hump at all. Just want to keep it all together so I can just grab it and go.