Today's Top Tip...

[Sheffield_Tiger]

When descending a 1:3 approx hill (on the moor to sea route from Wykeham Forest to Scarborough)...if you realise that your brakes could do with adjustment as you reach the bottom, be very careful not to let the side of your finger slip and touch the brake disk.

Unless you like having a finger that looks like a pork scratching

 

[Keith Oates]

I think it's fair to say that you won't try that again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[asterix]

You adjust your brakes whilst descending a 1 in 3? What if it is a long one? Clean the chain as well?

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

You adjust your brakes whilst descending a 1 in 3? What if it is a long one? Clean the chain as well?

If it's a muddy hill, Armor-All bike-wipes are a pocket sized pack

Nah, by the end of it I realised there was a reason why those last disc pads I bought off eBay were so cheap, they are made of cheese and just melt on one descent (on the brakes all the way, too narrow and twisting to risk anything, no escape route), by the bottom I had lever-to-bar contact without anything like proper stopping power

That's the next Top Tip - sometimes you do get what you pay for!

 

[summerdays]

I'm cringing as I read that ....

 

[ColinJ]

I remember watching a stage of the Vuelta where a Spanish rider had an accident. The TV cameras caught up and found him lying on the ground on a bend. It looked like he had overcooked it and slid off. He stood up and was about to remount his bike when he looked down at his hand and promptly fainted. It turned out that he had tried to adjust his computer magnet on the descent ... Zarrabeitia faints after severing top of finger!

So, yes, today's top tip is - don't put your hands anywhere near your wheels when your bike is moving quickly!

 

[apollo179]

I did a similar thing recently trying to remove a twig caught in my brakes while going down a steep hill - hit a pothole and was lucky not to lose a hand.

 

[fenfirsttimer]

and I am really cringing after reading the last two replies...... Will certainly take note and keep my hands well away from wheels at all times!

 

[Nordog]

My daft thing was riding my road bike many years ago with a Tesco plastic bag swing near my front wheel it threw me clean over the bars and onto my right shoulder that broke my collar in two places. Its a double the thickness now so I suppose it is much stronger now.

 

[Red Light]

So, yes, today's top tip is - don't put your hands anywhere near your wheels when your bike is moving quickly!

Unless you want your tips topped