Let me start the ball rolling...
Was changing my RD cable and housing, as it had died after a year's flogging in all weather commuting. Just enough time to get it done before hitting the hay to try and catch up on some sleep, as I'd really been suffering in this department the last few weeks.
Put the seat tube in the work stand, pulled out the cable stops, cut the new sections of outer to length and threaded through the teflon sealing sleeve, and was just about to put it all together and realised I was short one cable stop. After uttering several cuss-words and searching everywhere for 20 minutes with my trail lights to provide extra illumination, I resigned myself to fudging up a new one out of an old biro tube with one end melted closed and the other flared out. Took about 20 minutes to get it right.
Wasn't a perfect fit, but good enough to get me back on the road the following day.
Bumped the frame trying to push it into place.
The old one dropped on the floor.
