On 9/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Liza Mattana</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:pedals2people@gmail.com">pedals2people@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
...one job we do is flatten bikes for the village bicycle project in<br>moscow, idaho. we just need to remove pedals, loosen stem bolts and<br>turn the handle bars. </blockquote></div><br>off topic, perhaps. but i ran into this problem a few weeks ago, and thought i&#39;d bring it up. 
<br><br>we were organizing our storage unit(s), and a lot of our bikes had been flattened in this manner. which is awesome. anyway, whoever did the loosening of the stem bolts forgot to tighten them back when after flattening them. so when we&#39;d go to pull the bike out of the pile, the bars would come out, leaving the rest of the bike in the pile, but still connected via cables, etc. royal pain. 
<br><br>don&#39;t forget to tighten the stem bolts once the bars are turned!<br><br>that&#39;s it...<br><br><br><br>