awf170
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I know I make some pretty awful decisions, but everyone once in a while I manage to amaze myself with the shear stupidity of what I do. Today was a perfect example of one of those times.
Most everyone here probably knows this but just to double check: disk brakes automatically adjust so if you pull the lever when there is no wheel on the pads will adjust causing the disk not to fit in. To fix this problem you should lightly pry the pads apart with a flathead screw driver. I did not have a flathead screwdriver in my car, or anything even closely resembling one. The riders in the car next to me probably did, because seriously what kind of dumbass rides without a single tool on them. Asking them would have required effort though, and seeing how my car is completely full of sh*t there must be something that would work. Well in matter of seconds I found something, an ice axe. To me the blunt end of the axe looked like a perfect tool to pry the pads apart. And let me tell you, it did a pretty bang-up job of prying them apart. It actually did such an awesome job that the pads decided that they didn't want to go back together. After about 15 minutes of excessive swearing, hitting, and occasionally doing something useful that might actually fix the brakes I give up and drive myself back home defeated. I think I failed to calculate that the leverage of an ice axe is at least a 100X the leverage of a screwdriver. I hate bikes, and hate myself even more.
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Most everyone here probably knows this but just to double check: disk brakes automatically adjust so if you pull the lever when there is no wheel on the pads will adjust causing the disk not to fit in. To fix this problem you should lightly pry the pads apart with a flathead screw driver. I did not have a flathead screwdriver in my car, or anything even closely resembling one. The riders in the car next to me probably did, because seriously what kind of dumbass rides without a single tool on them. Asking them would have required effort though, and seeing how my car is completely full of sh*t there must be something that would work. Well in matter of seconds I found something, an ice axe. To me the blunt end of the axe looked like a perfect tool to pry the pads apart. And let me tell you, it did a pretty bang-up job of prying them apart. It actually did such an awesome job that the pads decided that they didn't want to go back together. After about 15 minutes of excessive swearing, hitting, and occasionally doing something useful that might actually fix the brakes I give up and drive myself back home defeated. I think I failed to calculate that the leverage of an ice axe is at least a 100X the leverage of a screwdriver. I hate bikes, and hate myself even more.
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