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Whilst out riding with Robmitch this afternoon his Avid BB5 spring broke... he had an old bungey cord in his van so we cut it down and i used a strip of the elastic to assist in the return of the piston arm... see below...

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... i went to agricultural college for 2 years to learn how to bodge, if it couldn't be done with a welder, big hammer and bailer twine it wasn't worth doing!!!

So what are you best riding bodges?

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... you may notice that he has a 203 adaptor and disc fitted... could be why he keep ripping spokes from his 28 spoke radial laced hub :) Anyone got a 180 adaptor spare!!

... although, in the tradition of this post i could file that one down ;)

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Thats pretty good.

Back in the day Worcester was the trials bodge center of the world. There were some classics, small allen keys clamped in mechs to hold them in a gear when the cables broken. I ran a piece of pepsi can as a leaf spring in my ACS freewheel for a couple of years. Matts classic mech hanger bodge using either the broken halfs of the mech hanger to build a new one, often with welding it back together by melting it a bit over the cooker, or using an old skool magura booster as a mech hanger.

That said personally I think the best bodge was this:

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24" wheel in a Pashley GHZ, rear brake consisted of a Leeson booster bolted upside down to the GHZ, then jubilee clipped to the frame at other end, with the bolts upside down. This bodge then leveled up, after crashing a rail gap in bristol I broke one of the jubilee clips, so we tired the bottom end of the brake with Jon Shrewsbury's spare brake cable.

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I think cable tieing my 4 bolt mount together, then cable tieing it down to the frame at the start of a london ride, then keeping it on for a good few weeks was my best, basically stripped the mount as i got to the meeting point IIRC...

Adrian from norwich had cracked forks, so he jubilee clipped a snapped tensile crank to the back of it, and 2 metal tyre levers to the front of it. That, was cool.

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I think my best bodge was my frame, is cracked just below were the seat was(it was a Saracen Comp 2005 bike.) and my dad and i thought of this stuff which comes as plastic balls in a bag(Y) what you do is boil them in the bag, then u can mould them, but before that my dad used Areldite glue on the frame, then , moulded the plastic to it. Sorry no picture but hopefully u get the idea (Y):lol:

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I think my best bodge was my frame, is cracked just below were the seat was(it was a Saracen Comp 2005 bike.) and my dad and i thought of this stuff which comes as plastic balls in a bag(Y) what you do is boil them in the bag, then u can mould them, but before that my dad used Areldite glue on the frame, then , moulded the plastic to it. Sorry no picture but hopefully u get the idea (Y):lol:

Polymorph?

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