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General: Pre Ride Nut & Bolt Check

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    DNF'in a race or getting stranded on the trail due to equipment failure bites and gettting hurt even worse. Before you ride, you should check your bike's critical nuts/bolts to make sure everything is sufficiently tight.

    This can be time consuming, so to shorten the time necessary greatly, after you've properly torqued a nut/bolt, break out your Sharpie permanent marker and mark the nut/bolt in line with a reference mark on the surface being tightened into. Then, the next time you ride, unless the mark on the nut/bolt and the surface being tightened into isn't lined up, the nut/bolt is still torqued properly.

    I mark the following nuts/bolts:
    - handlebar clamp
    - brake rotors
    - rear sprocket
    - shift lever
    - upper/lower clamps
    - front axle (including pinch bolts)
    - rear axle & adjuster nuts

    The Sharpie pen reference marks won't wash off with water, but are easily removed with carb or brake cleaners/solvents.
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    oh thats a man with too much to do. use loctite and forgetting it,lol
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    Could do I suppose.... Don't have too much time just a routine that works
    • CommentAuthorLowthy
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2008 edited
     
    What happens if when you look at the nut or bolt and it has loosened exactly one turn?

    The answer is stuff called torque seal. If it loosens the goop chips off.

    Comes in all range of colours to suit...
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    Good idea..... Where from???

    the 'Blue Supermarket' or local REPCO etc etc

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