As some of you lovely readers know, I have an severe issue causing thread on cogs and freewheels to become permanently stuck. This is most likely due to my amazingly
massive legs.
Soooo, today I decided to change the cog on my fixed gear ride only to find that it was stuck. I took off the wheel, removed the lockring and attempted to fit my chainwhip upon the cog only to find I was running/rocking a 1/8" cog.
For those of you that don't know, a 1/8" drivetrain is a uber wide system that is typically run by BMX riders. Lotsa fixed gear freestylers and track kings also run this odd drivetrain because running brakeless warrants a much larger and heftier chain. But ultimately this size chain just causes ridiculous problems down the road when trying to remove cogs etc etc.... not to mention typical bike ridding including fixed gear riding does NOT require such insanely massive parts.
But that's besides the point, I have a stuck cog on my bike and no way to get if off. Sooooo, I placed the wheel back in the bike the proceded to jump on the driveside pedal in a futile attempt to dislodge the cog. This failed atttemp resulted in nothing but making a lot of noise and possibly pissing off my neighbors (they played some gansta beats with excessive bass exceptionally loud after my pounding). So at this point some may think that they are completely screwed, but being the enginerd that I am,
I placed my bike in the trainer and
jumped on it.
I proceeded to apply the rear brake and pretend I was throwing down an epic skid. This has no effect. In frustration I bounced on the bike cranking backwards as hard as my massive legs could handle. The
cog magically loosened.
I was so stoked that I immediately treated myself to an
ice cold PBR.
So any readers out there that have this issue follow these exact steps, ummm well i guess you can skip to the part on the trainer. And if all else fails, call me and Ill bring my
massive legs (see above) to you place and dominate that cog, for an
ice cold PBR of course.