Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => DIY => Skip Bike and Bodge It => Topic started by: meddyg on 20 February, 2024, 01:21:49 pm
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Well it's not really a 'skip' bike; it's a Ribble Ebike.
We had disc brakes on a tandem previously, but rarely took wheels off to transport it.
It's a hydraulic system.
So we arrive at start of ride by car with my wife's bike and mine in the back of campervan.
I have dropped out front wheel but discs have closed together on the journey.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/38/f9/3yot9040_o.jpg)
so, with difficulty, prise apart with screwdriver - a bit too blunt really for the task, but all I had...
(https://images2.imgbox.com/61/b3/ib0CmMlK_o.jpg)
I wondered what I had lying around to stop them closing up , and wonder what others use?
Here's a bodge - with a 2p coin !
(https://images2.imgbox.com/79/45/CVIWAmxv_o.jpg)
maybe something softer like this chiropody felt ?
qv
(https://images2.imgbox.com/14/cd/BVBhSTzQ_o.jpg)
Any suggestions ?
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Just google Disk Brake Spacer.
Little plastic things that clip in place for exactly this job.
Because they clip in, they won't fall out like a coin or random bit of sheet material might.
They cost pennies.
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An old CD does the job.
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I got a clip-type thing from a LBS for free.
Seems they come in the big box when they get bikes from manufacturers that need final assembling.
Reminds me that I have no idea where it is - probably in the back of the skoda I sold 2 years ago.
I don't need to remove the wheel to load the bike into the Berlingo.
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I just happened to be in Go Outdoors in Cardiff at the end of the day; their technician gave me a couple ("how many do you want?") As you say - used for stabilising the brakes in the delivery box !
(https://images2.imgbox.com/ab/77/IN5wmgC4_o.jpg)
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Those little plastic doofers are invaluable if you have to do a lot of packing up of bikes for shipping.
You can also get fatter block types for keeping the pistons apart when you remove the pads.