Did you ever see something like this?

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

If you're using it on a turbo trainer a lot, highly corrosive sweat is bound to get in the nooks and crannies. I used to cover any vulnerable bits in cling film when using a bike on a trainer.

Thought the sweat catcher was enough.. Obviously is not.. Will have to add a towel to it as well.. Lesson learned...

Also thought that by washing the bike any rest of salt would be washed away.. I guess is not the case.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Sounds delightful

And how did you stop the bike from corroding

Don't knock it 'till you've tried it!

 

[jonny jeez]

I believed it snapped as I was trying to get to the big chain ring right at the start of a ride.. Theory said that might be carrying to much pressure.. And no it didn't feel weird or hard to pass the from one chain ring to the other at all..

Then, make sure you cure the complaint, not just the symptom

 

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

Then, make sure you cure the complaint, not just the symptom

Lesson learned... You sound like my mom..!

 

[fossyant]

These plastic bikes are no good.

 

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

These plastic bikes are no good.

Agree...! But makes my life easier going up the hills... 97 kilos are not that easy to move forward when the route goes up..

 

[Globalti]

A colleague of mine completely ruined a lovely steel Bianchi by sweating all over it. Everything was corroded.

If the rivet holes are a bit ragged you don't need to re-attach that cable stop to the same place; it can go somewhere different with fresh holes drilled through the frame. Fill the old holes with Araldite so as to help spread the stresses and seal them.

 

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

A colleague of mine completely ruined a lovely steel Bianchi by sweating all over it. Everything was corroded.

If the rivet holes are a bit ragged you don't need to re-attach that cable stop to the same place; it can go somewhere different with fresh holes drilled through the frame. Fill the old holes with Araldite so as to help spread the stresses and seal them.

I am not going near my bike with a drill..!!!

Most likely I end up cracking the frame.. But I see your point and makes total sense.. Also i know I need a bigger towel when going for a century on the trainer..

 

[Globalti]

A smooth, round hole won't crack the frame because the stresses will flow cleanly around the hole. A big tube like that isn't massively stressed at any point anyway, all the stresses are flowing smoothly along it. Introduce a stress riser though, like a tear or crack and the tube will break in the same way as when you nick Sellotape with a tooth to tear it. Sometimes a temporary cure for a cracked tube or structure is to drill a clean hole at the end of the crack to "teminate" it. You might see a hole at the end of the slot on your seat tube.

 

[vickster]

How do you do a century on a trainer, you don't actually go anywhere

 

[Milkfloat]

How do you do a century on a trainer, you don't actually go anywhere

How do you do a century on a trainer without falling asleep?

 

[HarryTheDog]

Mine was on a brake cable stop to the rear brake, so I temporarily ran a cable outer all the way to the brake,(joined it with some little inline cable adjuster)I dont suppose you can do that if its a front gear cable as I suppose it runs under the BB and up a little hole.

 

[vickster]

How do you do a century on a trainer without falling asleep?

Well you can't do one as you don't go anywhere Unless you mean falling asleep in the several hours it might take to cover a century if you were moving based on some algorithm...amphetamines?

 

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

How do you do a century on a trainer, you don't actually go anywhere

To the garage... Where my wife and rest of the family go look at me and think that I am crazy..

 

[The_Weekend_Report_Guy]

Well you can't do one as you don't go anywhere Unless you mean falling asleep in the several hours it might take to cover a century if you were moving based on some algorithm...amphetamines?

The wheel spins... the distance is recorded by some sort of computer.. 3 hours and some minutes later a century (metric) is done... Now it makes more sense how the bike got all that sweat on?