Assumptions and being an ass...

[Neil]

Sometimes I curse my natural tendency to wing-it - I wanted to rebuild a wheel on to a better hub, delaced it all, started relacing onto the new hub, and after getting to the end of the first section of spokes, realised something was off.

I've had this wheel since around 95 / 96, and always assumed it was 32h - never checked, just always assumed it was, really. But I have to find out, after I've delaced it, and started lacing it to a new hub, don't I...

And now I realise it's a 36h rim, my OCD means I'm not really going to want to build it as a front, seeing as the matching rear wheel (Mavic 230) truly is 32h. I'll always know I'm doing a daft thing, if I build it as a 36h front, when the rear is 32h.

Damn.

Double-damn.

Sometimes I feel that every small job I start, ends up on hold, whilst it's spawned longer jobs...

 

[ajm]

Sometimes I feel that every small job I start, ends up on hold, whilst it's spawned longer jobs...

Horribly, horribly true for me as well, no matter what sort of job it is...

 

[cyfa2809]

I have done this!

Woopsie. I got further than you though.

 

[grumpycommuter]

Are we not witnessing here a small element of the 'male condition'? I'm assuming all posters are male. I was taught by guru Spencer13 to always work with an open vessel of alcohol to hand, for without this things will go south very quickly. Having suffered at the hands of Sod myself, i find this method very effective in warding off misfortune!

 

[rosstheboss]

Sometimes I feel that every small job I start, ends up on hold, whilst it's spawned longer jobs...

Horribly, horribly true for me as well, no matter what sort of job it is...

+ bloody 1

 

[dyna-ti]

easy mistake to make








:shock:

 

[JamesM]

If you build it as a 36 hole front you can do stoppies/endos with much greater confidence. And give people lifts down the road sitting on the bars!!!

 

[highlandsflyer]

I drink so much I cannot remember yesterday's lack of fulfilment.

 

[silverclaws]

I look at it this way; if something can go wrong, it will I'm on the job.

So everything is meticulously planned to perfection to do anything then when the job is done I scold myself for putting too much effort in and not do so in future, but when it coes to the future, I have to plan as winging it with me I am full of doubt and anxiety and it is the anxiety that makes me panic and give up just in case it goes wrong.

But yeah winging it on alcohol works without planning, it is almost like god sent the way it all falls together with ease.

Mind, have not built a wheel yet, but have rebuilt engines pissed.