The Goat Whisperer
Roadside Repair
So I was heading home after doing a bunch of front end work on The Goat at a friend's place in North Georgia. I'd already put in about 60 miles of paved twisties when I decided to hit Skyline Drive along the ridge of Talladega Mountain to check the improvement in the front suspension on a dirt road. Quite nice, by the way. But then I heard a knocking/ringing noise that I thought was maybe the steering head rattling loose. When I applied the front brakes, I had none. As it turned out, I lost the bottom caliper bolt, and the top one was very loose, which allowed the caliper to swing up off of the rotor. Having no other alternative, I broke out the giant zip-ties that I've been carrying in my took kit for the last ten years. I was pretty impressed that these held for the last five miles of dirt and the thirteen more miles winding down the mountains into Talladega where I was able to find a suitable replacement bolt to get me home.
Roadside Repair
So I was heading home after doing a bunch of front end work on The Goat at a friend's place in North Georgia. I'd already put in about 60 miles of paved twisties when I decided to hit Skyline Drive along the ridge of Talladega Mountain to check the improvement in the front suspension on a dirt road. Quite nice, by the way. But then I heard a knocking/ringing noise that I thought was maybe the steering head rattling loose. When I applied the front brakes, I had none. As it turned out, I lost the bottom caliper bolt, and the top one was very loose, which allowed the caliper to swing up off of the rotor. Having no other alternative, I broke out the giant zip-ties that I've been carrying in my took kit for the last ten years. I was pretty impressed that these held for the last five miles of dirt and the thirteen more miles winding down the mountains into Talladega where I was able to find a suitable replacement bolt to get me home.