What's the WORST cycling related advice you have been given?

[Angelfishsolo]

Use lights during the daytime maybe????

I dont get this one? Are lights on your bike a bag thing?

 

[Joe24]

Use lights during the daytime maybe????

I wouldnt class that as a bad bit of advice. Some people do that.

 

[bonj2]

Questioner: Hi, I'm a 55 y/o overweight chap, just starting out. I plan to ride to work and back a distance of 5 miles in total. I need to carry my laptop and papers. If I like it, I might consider going for a bit of a ride on weekends. What bike should I get?

CC bicycle expert: Get one of these.

what's wrong with that?

 

[Headgardener]

"Your better off with ordinary pedals" my brother to me about my clipless pedals after I had fallen off on the way to collect my new glasses (no connection).

 

[Cubist]

My best is "if your disk brakes are binding bend the disk rotor by hand until it stops!!"

This was a LBS owner too!!

And your point is? Once they've been properly centred and still catch a bit, they may indeed be out of true. They are pliable enough to carefully tweak back in line again. This is done by hand. How the hell else would you straighten them? Go ahead and shell out for new rotors if you like, but I'll keep tweaking mine back in line thanks!

 

[bonj2]

well not literally by hand, but by a hand holding an adjustable spanner...

 

[Black Sheep]

anything bonj has said

 

[spandex]

well not literally by hand, but by a hand holding an adjustable spanner...

Before I went up market and got a tool for doing this I all ways did it by hand I have never found any point using a adjustable spanner.

 

[MadoneRider1991]

Go to Halfords.

i agree with this 1 lol