Friday, July 11, 2008

Beware! Headset Maggots!


As if you didn't have enough to worry about, now you have to check under your headset top cap for infestations of maggots.

6 comments:

  1. Ok, now that is a new one on me. Perhaps you should refrain from the hogies on the commute.

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  2. Anonymous2:19 PM

    It's not the maggots that should concern you, it is the the rotting flesh to which they were attracted that should be of concern. it is possible that a family of itsy bitsy rodents is living ( and dying) within your forks.

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  3. Hmm. I don't know what's worse: The fact that I was sitting here eating when I saw this, or the fact that it didn't really bother me.

    I must say, I've seen wasps build homes on bikes, but never maggots. That's a new one.

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  4. That's pretty ewwww.

    Maybe that's the headset Alice Cooper used when he impaled the science nerd with a bike.

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  5. Crisco, not the best choice for headset lube.

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  6. I was just pointed to this post from a comment on this post of mine at my Old Bike Blog,

    http://oldbikeblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/buzz-about-old-bikes.html

    about finding my second yellow jacket in a frame (two different frames). They were both long dead, thankfully, and not nearly as gross as maggots. Wow.

    PS--the Google word verifcation code for this comment is "porks." Delightful.

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