Horror Bodges! Show and Tell

[hydorah]

In this thread we can explore and share the horrors of previous owner's maintenance and 'upgrade' skills

I bet there are some corkers out there!

Here's mine:

Bought a Trek which had been heavily 'upgraded'

Item number one: 'upgraded' Deore LX four arm spider/outer chainring lock ring has been driven with a chisel or screw driver

Extractor threads were pretty shagged in the crank arms too

But the best one was when I decided I wanted to use the 'upgraded' XT 11-28 sprocket on another bike. He must have used something wedged in the spokes to prevent the freehub rotating

I wonder if maybe he tried to ride with a chain that had over-ridden the 28t cog and got wedged? But the manglement is all counter clock wise on the drive side, so can only be amateur cassette removal

Check out the pics

Then post yours!!!

Crank muppetry:

Spoke Muppetry:

Look how mangled they are!

 

[silverclaws]

With many people sadly, the lack of either of,or a combination of, knowlege, tools, skill and time leads to bodges, but although we may see such things as bodges, to the bodger, the repair, modification or whatever they come to call it will do as long as it solves the problem that inspired the bodge in the first place.

And to be fair who can lay their hand on their heart and say they have not bodged a job, for I have and have not been too pleased with the job, but the less than ideal way of doing things generally either results in further damage or something that will hold until it is required that the job is done again, which might very well be never in the term of one's ownership.

My recent cycle bodges include trying to remove the left hand crank with the self extracting crank bolts only to find I have stripped the crank threads and destroyed the extractor bolt. The result, hit the crank with a mallet and put a normal crank bolt in until I can find another crank arm and extractor bolt, basically leave the job until another day.

Another bodge I am engaged with at the moment is trying to combine the innards of a XT thumbshifter with an older Deore thumbshifter after a maintenance job went horribly wrong and the synopsis of what happened seems to lead to the fact that the Deore shifter has had maintenance before, as some parts were either different, or just plain missing, which might go on to account for why the shifter was less than light action. The spindle through the centre sheared off.

 

[Tad]

Another bodge I am engaged with at the moment is trying to combine the innards of a XT thumbshifter with an older Deore thumbshifter after a maintenance job went horribly wrong and the synopsis of what happened seems to lead to the fact that the Deore shifter has had maintenance before, as some parts were either different, or just plain missing, which might go on to account for why the shifter was less than light action. The spindle through the centre sheared off.

If it's 7 speed Deore and 7 speed XT when I tried I discovered that the innards are the same, the difference between them was the sticker on the top cap and the mount, alloy on the XT and steel on the Deore. Easy enough to mix and match the bits. Good luck.

 

[mikee]

best one i've seen was a cadex i bought a few years ago
the ali bb insert had split so it wouldnt hold the b/b tight
however nothing a few pins wouldnt sort out
fit the b/b and hammer in a few (dressmaking) pins
it worked, i only discovered when i went to change the middle ring

 

[CTK]

I was flabbergasted by the Litespeed on ebay with a hand crimped chainstay- in order to get a 200mm rotor to fit!

 

[mikee]

owwwwchhh :x

 

[hydorah]

I sense a little cpmpetition!

I feel like this should take on a competitive angle!

I'm loving Mikee's pinned BB with the dress making pins

But a hand crimped chain stay? that's extreme, CTK

It's all the more tragic when it's nice kit like in these two cases

One story (which is secondhand, like the dodgy bikes), a used Trek (coincidence) where the previous owner had replaced a chain roller with a small nut...

Cosmetically bike looked great, drive train= ruined

 

[lewis1641]

I'v e recently bought a kona fire mountain off ebay. A bodger's delight. It had aftermarket sus fork but front canti still cabled through the stem so as the fork compresses the pads move. It had the usual array of stripped threads and stuck seatpost. Pedals were forced into the wrong cranks. I'm sure there was more.

Best ever was the dude on her with the explosiv with stuck bottom bracket. He cut a section of the b.b. Shell across the width of it. That allowed removal of the b.b. Then he welded it back up. To be fair it worked and he did a very good job of the repair. Still a braver soul than i though.

 

[phill77]

Not really a bodge.

When I bought my Orange Prestige off a mate, I must have rode it for 6 months until I noticed I had one 170mm and 175mm crank.
He had done the same for a year...

 

[silverclaws]

Not really a bodge.

When I bought my Orange Prestige off a mate, I must have rode it for 6 months until I noticed I had one 170mm and 175mm crank.
He had done the same for a year...

Did you have a tendancy to veer to one side when you were walking ?