The thing I keep thinking about in all of this is where were the brakes? On the
bikes I've had for the brake pads to be close enough to the rim to do any good
they're tighter together than the tire...
Of course I've never ridden a street bike any amount and I never had a bike
with a pedal backwards brake.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:30:54 EST
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT was bird in star, now bicycle wheel drops off
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In a message dated 3/20/2006 12:19:31 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
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Well I have had that happen to me on a bicycle once. The thing is the
weight
of the bike will keep wheel on till you try to do a wheelie. Thus on a
street bike you would never bee doing a wheelie. When I tried to do
the
wheelie on the bicycle I was not going fast and ended up talking in a
higher
pitch voice for awhile.
Non-believers,
It was over 50 years ago when I was riding my bike home from school.
A nice
easy down hill grade on the main street of town. I usually come off
the road
via the driveway of our neighbor's house and pop a little wheelie as I
ramp
up onto the sidewalk. Oh yea!! you guessed it. The front wheel
dropped off
and the forks made grooves in the sidewalk that I bet are still there.
God
protects fools and children as I somersaulted over the handle bars and
landed
on the sidewalk, still carrying a fair amount of speed! My feet hit
first
and took a lot of the impact off and I ended up with only a few
scratches on
my hands.
I don't remember if that bike had the little safety hooks that retain
the
front axle, (this was the early 50s) but if they did, I surely took
them off .
I was all the time adjusting and/or replacing those bearings. OSHA
who?
Regards,
Jim Friesen
Phoenix AZ
79 300SD, 262 K miles
98 ML 320, 141 K miles
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A friend at work recently bought a '85 380SL. It's leaving some oil on the
garage floor and he thinks it is the oil pan. I cautioned him to be sure
by getting the bottom of the engine clean to locate the source. I took a
glance underneath and it looks like a full oil pan with no lower pan
cover. Also looks pretty tight with the crossmember and tie rods. Anyone
changed the pan gasket before and know the procedure?
Alan Duff
Knoxville, TN
