Training Tipperary style!

coolbeans

This happened to me Sunday. Thought I'd take a few pics. The water got up as far as the bottom bracket and into the hubs as I discovered when I turned the bike upside down only to see it dripping out upon my return. What's the best way to treat wet hubs and bracket guys?


Sorry about the size of the images. Dunno how to make them smaller without having to resort to simple links. Mods?

Lumen

coolbeans wrote: »

Sorry about the size of the images. Dunno how to make them smaller without having to resort to simple links.

Something like this will do it.

blorg

Alternatively if you are using Windows Microsoft have a free tool that lets you resize them, very straightforward. Saves you a long upload.

I think you should be looking at disassembling and regreasing hubs and BB, this happened to me once and it pretty much fecked up my BB in particular.

sportbilly2008

blorg, i tried to go through an even deeper flooded road[didn,t know it was thar deep] and my bb was submerged, do i have to get it sorted too in my lbs?

coolbeans

I'm gonna leave it for a week as I haven't the cash to buy the tools to open up BB or the hubs. In the meantime, will teflon lube penetrate and dissipate the water ingress do ye think? This has me paranoid as I'm just about to go on a 40KM spin now.

victorcarrera

If you are not into dismantling it then try leaving the bike lying flat on the ground for a while and drain off as much water as possible. Try forcing hot air through the bottom bracket bearings with hair dryer down the seat tube. The last time I rode through a flood like that my bottom bracket gave up 2 weeks later.

E@gle.

why in da name of jayus did ya cycle through that.

niceonetom

If it's too deep for him, it's too deep for you.

From here.

Good luck with that BB, but I suspect you'll be using your CC soon.

ROK ON

@Tom. He would have cycled thru it 20yrs ago if sprinting for the win (and prizefund).

blorg

I would get it checked out now while it is probably still recoverable. Leave it and you might end up with more damage or things seizing.

@Eagle- everyone has to do it once, we learn from our mistakes

niceonetom

ROK ON wrote: »

@Tom. He would have cycled thru it 20yrs ago if sprinting for the win (and prizefund).

True. But he would have thought anyone who'd do it for free in training was a bit touched.

quintana2

coolbeans nice rack! you'll be able to fodder the cattle with that if we get a bad winter! get the bb checked soon i seized one last winter not pretty. what part of tipp was that? i was out for a few hrs sunday & i got no swim training done

Saxobank

+1 was out for a spin on saturday got soaked coming back in to the mel!

coolbeans

It was the Clogheen/Newcastle road. Lovely countryside. Great fishing...I know I shouldn't have gone through it but there was a series of floods each successively deeper than the next. We thought we'd be OK. I wouldn't have gone through at all if I'd known what I was in for but alas I found out the hard way. To quote Willy Shakespeare "I was in blood flood stepped in so far that to return would be as tedious as go o'er." By the way I took the pics so I'm not in them.

Bollox, I'm well freaked about the BB now...

quintana2

I KNOW THE ROAD WELL, YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE ROD ON SUNDAY. GO LEFT AT THE PUB IN NEWCASTLE NEXT SUNDAY AND GET TO HIGHER GROUND;)

coolbeans

quintana2 wrote: »

I KNOW THE ROAD WELL, YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT THE ROD ON SUNDAY. GO LEFT AT THE PUB IN NEWCASTLE NEXT SUNDAY AND GET TO HIGHER GROUND;)

I will, if I have a BB...:(

blorg

Just get it checked out/fixed now and it will not be so bad, it has the potential to be far worse if you leave it. The whole thing probably needs disassembly and regreasing. Fine if you just do it now, not so fine in a few months.