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20 Comments
He was such an amazing rider of his time!
Used to have to use the can shim all the time when repairing and or custom fitting bike parts. Always worked great!!
My seatpost has a shim made of a beer can, so โฆ. It works ๐ no slipping or creaking
Those handlebars were designed by hot dog skier Boone Lennon, whom my father knew in Colorado.
I used Sapporo aluminum on the handlebar of my motorcycle for the same reason. ๐ค๐ป
RIP those flush cutters
Texas' Pearl Light have some real thin shims. I mean cans.
Old news
My seat post on my gravel bike has a double layer of drink can shim. I actually learned this technique from reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ".
Need to go back to one bike for the whole race, stick the tri bars on for the TT stages. Get back to basics. Also get ride of race radio and the team cars. Standard support car for all the riders (like the Olympics)
Yup, I had to mount a 25.4mm drop bar onto an even older 26mm stem and thought: where do I get a very thin sheet of metal?. Bought a can and went around in my office asking: does anyone want to drink Coke? I had to drink it myself in the end. No Coke lovers here.
One of the best hacks of all time. The can cuts better with regular scissors or a knife. The aluminum is so much thinner and is so much easier to cut.
On my hack bike, the front mech clamp was too large in diameter. I used a penny as a shim about 10 years ago. It's still going strong.
Used to have to do this as a kid after I stripped ny handlebars on the bmx
Perhaps THE most impressive technological advancement of all time in cycling.
80's life hack with bikes
Old school shims, I've been using them since the ,80s
It took you wanks 25 years to figure that one out?
This was quite common back in then with bars/stems/clip ons with 25.4mm, 25.8mm, 27mm standards
Have a Coke can shim for some bullhorns that has held for 11 years.