Rant on, Back yard Bike Mechanics

[Sinner4]

Some people should not be allowed to work on Bikes, or anything in general.....

So I'm checking out a thrift store at lunch for bikes. Come across a lady's Huffy 15 speed, Oh yellow tag, 1/2 off. $15 later and I'm out the door with bike parts. Looks like I have another set of Bull Moose bars, good saddle and a set of pedals, heck even the wheels and tires can be re used.

So after 5p I'm tearing her down. First off I take off the seat and post and run into this.....

WHAT???????????? Ok the seat Post is to big and they took a hack saw to it, no biggie, don't really need it, set off to the front for the Bull Moose Bars...

WHAT?????? Again.................................. You have to be kidding me......

I'm Floored that someone would do that to the stem... Another set of Bull Moose ruined on a Huffy that I could have used on a project.

So Rant off..............

So I was wondering what kind of back yard hack jobs has anyone else ran into.

 

[CCR]

The ones that stand out ...

A pair of 26" tires glued to the rims of a 26x1-3/8" tired bike.
Lots of spot welded seat posts, pedals and stems (i hate that)
Peanut Butter for hub bearing grease

 

[Carbon]

Thats a high end race machine, needed to liten er up abit! :lol: Peanut butter for hub bearing grease :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:

 

[mos6502]

A length of gaspipe for a seat post. :lol:

 

[Bigcam59]

A length of gaspipe for a seat post. :lol:

I've actually used that myself. Cheap and strong...as long as it fits. 8)

 

[Sinner4]

A length of gaspipe for a seat post. :lol:

Also a water pipe hammered in forever on a AMF is another one for me.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Worst one I have had was a brat's low-rider bike that someone had drilled a 5/16" hole through the head tube and fork that he had a bolt through. His cheap steering lock :roll: Bike also had one of those cheap Chinese motor kits on it, with a hole drilled in the top tube to run the throttle cable through the frame (Not IN the frame THROUGH the frame), no brakes, bent ape hangers, and more rust on it's fenders than the Titanic. I wondered to myself how he could have even ridden it. Talk about a deathtrap. Then it had a layer of white house paint that looked like it was applied with a dead chicken. Mainly bought it for the springer fork, frame, and motor.

If you got a welder you could fix those bars.

 

[Sinner4]

If you got a welder you could fix those bars.

I do, it floors me that some one spent all that time and effort to mess things.

Have seen two cable brake cable tied together to make them longer.

I found another set bull moose bars, they had 4 rolls of tape on them. Peeled all the tape off and found that they had been broken and rewelded with a stick welder set at 150 amps. Holes and goober welds. They went to the scrap pile.