Comments on: No Lawyer Nibs

By: Benoit

Benoit — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:28:46 +0000

By which I mean: ==Julie. I didn’t know they had a name (though if I’d considered it, it’s obvious that they would), but my god have I cursed and sworn at them.

By: Benoit

Benoit — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:26:12 +0000

The quick-release has another fun feature, which is that it takes approximately 2.8 seconds for a thief to make off with your front wheel, thereby ensuring that if you forget to lock the wheel with the frame, you’re walking home.

The lawyer nibs were designed to counter this, by making it SO FRUSTRATING that instead the thief will head to Iraq where he can help punish the nation responsible for this crime against humanity.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:53:18 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I always thought I was doing something wrong because it took me so much time to get the wheel off using the QR.

By: Brownbot

Brownbot — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:09:35 +0000

Haven’t seen them here in Australia yet, this type of thing is ruining the natural selection process.

People who can’t work their quick release mechanism should in the natural order of things have a spectacular crash and either seriously disfigure themselves or die, thus limiting their ability to procreate.

Those that can work their quick release ride around safely looking cool and get laid, we weed out the weakness and the whole race is better off.

If you treat people like morons they’ll act like morons!

By: Dr. Click

Dr. Click — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:08:48 +0000

Is that what those bloody things were? When I bought my first bike with a quick-release wheel, I thought to myself “what kind of imbecile designed the QR so that I had to UNSCREW THE BOLT anyway?”

Fuckers.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:27:29 +0000

Except that smoking and asbestos together are associated with a much higher cancer rate than the sum of the activities would suggest. Probably because nicotine paralyzes the cillia (have I spelled that correctly?) in your lungs. You don’t cough up as much as you should smoking and the stuff asbestos stays lodged in your lungs.

By: Will C

Will C — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:21:03 +0000

I hate those things too. If upon buying a new bike someone told me that for $45 I could have the nibs removed, the area they came from sanded and painted I’d take them up on it. If I had to sign a waiver for them to do it, so be it.

Riding a bike amongst cars is by its nature dangerous. Riding down mountain trails is dangerous. Riding in a race with no cars whizzing by is dangerous. It turns out that bike riding carries an element of danger. To nib for safety seems a pointless afterthought, like banning smoking in an asbestos factory.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:39:19 +0000

You have inspired me to see how easily they come off with a grinder. I’ll have to look at it and see if I can do that without ruining my bike.