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Wheel Truing Basics
How To True Wheels Solve Your Wheel Woes With This Important Skill |
Understanding basic wheel repair enables you to keep your rig riding smoothly, efficiently and stopping effectively.
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There are a wide variety of wheels available today and some are easier to true than others. Here, we offer basic wheel-truing instructions applicable to all wire-spoke wheels. If you have a high-tech racing wheelset, one with very few spokes and/or hidden nipples, we recommend bringing it into the shop for repairs, or at least calling for advice. These wheels are specially built by the manufacturer and usually require unique tools and techniques (for example, some have locked nipples). You can do more damage than good if you try working on these types of wheels.
Truing Tools
A spoke wrench is the only tool required for truing (the term for straightening a wheel). This is a small wrench that grips the spoke nipples and lets you tighten or loosen the spokes to align the wheel (photo). More about that in a minute. Nipples and wrenches come in different sizes so be sure to get a wrench that fits your wheels. Ride in or bring a wheel in and we can pick out the right tool for you.
To fix wheels, our professional mechanics use a device called a truing stand (see top photo) that supports the wheel and makes it easier to see imperfections. You can do the job just fine by leaving the wheel in place and using your bike as a stand. Just suspend the bike so that the wobbler is at about chest level. And be sure to move a good light next to the bike so you can see what you're doing.
Typical Wheel Problems
Under normal use, wheels remain true because the spokes are evenly tensioned to keep the rim aligned. Subjected to rough roads/trails, bumps and jumps, however, spokes may loosen, and when this happens, wheels can develop side-to-side wobbles. This is called a "warp," as in, "my wheel is warped," and is something you'll be able to repair following our instructions and with a little practice.
It's important to understand that it's also possible to bend wheels. This is usually the result of a serious impact from slamming into a hole or crashing. If you suffer this type of damage, truing the wheel probably won't work because it's become structurally unsound (the rim is crooked). You can recognize serious wheel damage by dents and/or bulges in the rim and significant defects in roundness and/or lateral alignment. In most cases, this type of damage requires rim or wheel replacement. So you should bring your wheel in to us for an estimate.
Getting Oriented
With your bike suspended and the wheel needing help in easy view, look closely at how the spokes leave the hub. Notice that there are spokes on the right and left sides of the hub. You can usually notice that the spokes are offset to the left and right at the rim too (photo; rim only shown so you can see the offset). The key to truing is adjusting the spoke(s) on the correct side of the wheel.
Note that the spokes have nut-like devices at the rim called nipples. When viewed from above, nipples are turned clockwise with the spoke wrench to tighten spoke tension and counterclockwise to loosen it. To ensure that you turn the nipple the correct way, always rotate the wheel to bring the nipple to the top first.
Also, when truing, it's best to turn nipples no more than ½ turn at a time, check your progress to see how you're doing, and repeat as necessary.
Locating The Wobble
Usually, the easy way to find the problem area (the loose spoke) is to spin the wheel and watch for the wobble by watching the gap between the rim and one brake pad. When you see the wheel wobble to one side you've located the problem spot. (You can also rest a thumb against the brake pad as the wheel spins to feel for the wobble.)
When you find the bad spot, stop the wheel and wiggle the spokes in this area to feel for ones that are significantly looser than their neighbors. You'll probably discover that if the wheel is warped to the right, a spoke or two on the left side will feel looser. The opposite will be true for wobbles to the left.
You can also find wobbles/problems by starting at the valve stem and going around the wheel wiggling each spoke in your fingers feeling for loose ones. On a good wheel the spokes will feel evenly tensioned (note that on rear wheels, by design, the left-side spokes are not as tight as the right ones; what's important is that the spokes on each side are evenly tensioned compared to each other).
Truing the wheel is just a matter of turning the right nipples just the right amount to tighten the loose spokes until they're as tight as the other spokes on that side of the wheel. A simple way to keep track of the spokes that you're tensioning is putting a piece of tape on them. That way, you won't lose track of them when you spin the wheel to check how the wheel is improving.
Remember to turn the spokes in small increments and spin the wheel to check your progress. After a few adjustments, you should find that the wheel is nice and true again. The most common mistakes are turning nipples the wrong direction or turning the wrong nipple. So, remember to double-check that the spoke you're adjusting is on the correct side of the wheel and that you always bring its nipple to the top of the wheel and turn clockwise.
Truing By Pitch
If you're musically inclined, you might prefer another truing technique involving plucking the spokes with your finger and listening to the noise they make. You'll find that the loose spokes sound "dead." If you tighten them until they make the same sound as their neighbors, you'll quickly straighten the wheel.
The wheel does not have to be perfectly round or true; slight runouts are acceptable (a few millimeters). As long as there are no loose spokes and the wheel is reasonably straight (the rim and tire mustn't rub on the brake pads), it will ride nicely and hold up fine.
Obviously, these instructions are for basic wheel repairs, however, it can be very satisfying to fix a wobbly wheel and it can make you a big hit with your friends if you can get their wheel round enough for them to keep riding when you're out on the road or trail. If you have any questions, we're happy to advise. And, if you have more serious wheel problems, our wheelsmiths can help. The first two photos are courtesy of Park Tool.


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Anyway, with all that cultural intrigue behind us, I just wanted to share with you the valentines cards that we sorted out this year and last year for the kids to give to their friends. A couple of years back I saw a post on 24-7-365 showing the way they had very cleverly made some personal valentines cards of their girls holding out lolly pops. You can see them here. (warning: cute overload) I really wanted to do something like this in 2010, but this exact idea wasn't quite going to work for us for a couple of reasons.
and this is the version from this year...
I also did one with just my older daughter for her to give to her classmates on Monday, leaving space for her to write in each classmate's name...
The text on these was from the handwriting font that my older daughter made when she was four. You can see how we did that here. I should really make an updated version!
Just in case you have time today or tomorrow to make some valentinezy type stuff, here are a few links to older valentine's posts from Filth Wizardry that might be helpful...
- Toilet roll tube heart necklaces.
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- Spending on propaganda websites has more than doubled since 2009
- Controversial longtime military PR guru is a key SOCOM adviser
- SOCOM conducted the operation to kill Osama bin Laden
WASHINGTON — The military's Special Operations Command has become an emerging player in the Pentagon's propaganda efforts to confront violent extremists around the world, according to documents and a new report from a non-partisan think tank.
Special Operations Command, based in Tampa, directs the military's elite commando units — the Navy's SEALs and Army's Delta Force — in counterterrorism missions. SOCOM, as it is known, conducted the operation to kill Osama bin Laden and dealt bloody blows to insurgent groups in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Key to its propaganda efforts is a collection of websites known as the Trans Regional Web Initiative aimed at foreign audiences. USA TODAY first reported on its existence in 2008, and it appears to have expanded.
MORE: USA TODAY's 2008 story on Pentagon launching foreign news websites
Some of those websites and blogs are classified programs and appear without attribution, according to a report released to USA TODAY, titled "The Pentagon as Pitchman: Perception and Reality of Public Diplomacy." The report, by the non-partisan Stimson Center, examines the military's growing role in shaping perceptions about the United States around the world.
SOCOM has bolstered its propaganda campaign in cyberspace with trained teams of psychological operations troops. As of March, according to SOCOM's commander, Adm. William McRaven, it had deployed 22 "Military Information Support Operations" teams around the world at the request of military leaders and ambassadors. MISO teams, formerly known as "psychological operations" troops, help "combat VEOs (violent extremist organizations) and resist the spread of their associated ideologies," according to SOCOM. Once deployed, they serve for local commanders.
Also advising SOCOM is longtime public affairs and propaganda contractor John Rendon, whose Rendon Group was instrumental in influencing public opinion before the start of the Iraq War. Rendon has two full-time employees working at SOCOM and has visited the command's headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base 12 times since Feb. 1, said Col. Tim Nye, a SOCOM spokesman.
Rendon was paid $24,000 for its work on SOCOM's Sovereign Challenge exercise with foreign governments and is a subcontractor on a $1.2 million contract run by Scientific Research at MacDill.
The military revoked a Rendon contract in Afghanistan when it was revealed in 2009 that it had profiled reporters seeking to embed with troops and weeded out those whose coverage was deemed negative. In all, Rendon, a marketing expert, has been paid more than $100 million for providing the military with communication advice.
Unlike other regional combatant commands such as the Central Command in the Middle East, SOCOM is not bound by geography. Its mission to combat extremism extends around the globe.
Overall, funding for information operations, which include the military's propaganda efforts abroad, has fallen from its peak of $580 million in 2009 during the toughest fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan to $202 million last year. Most of the money is spent on propaganda programs in war zones, often broadcasts and leaflets aimed at bolstering support for the Afghan government. A USA TODAY investigation found that the military has had trouble accounting for the funds spent and measuring the effects of its campaigns.
Many of these information operations appear to be consolidating under SOCOM, according to Russell Rumbaugh, one of the Stimson report's authors. In 2013, SOCOM seeks $58.9 million for its information operations, according to the Stimson analysis, while Central Command wants $29.4 million.
"SOCOM's role in U.S. foreign policy has been changing, and public diplomacy is one of the more interesting areas we see that in," Rumbaugh says. "By centralizing them, SOCOM seems to be playing a bigger role than before. Our analysis found where more traditional parts of (the Department of Defense) have shied away from this mission, SOCOM has been willing to embrace it. The truth is SOCOM as such a big player in foreign policy is new, and we really don't know what all the implications of that are."
SOCOM's Trans Regional Web Initiative includes websites that offer news, cultural reports, sports and other programming to "target audiences," according to a Senate Armed Services Committee report cited by the Stimson Center. The websites, according to the report, "have the strong appearance of civilian journalism" and seek "to express the United States and its operations in a positive light."
The sites started in 1999 during the U.S. mission in Kosovo, military records show. The first site, Balkan Information Exchange, was started by the Rendon Group. It has evolved into Southeast Europe Times, which is run by General Dynamics Information Technology, records show.
Pentagon contract records show that General Dynamics has been paid more than $80 million for the sites since September 2009, when they were first announced as a $10 million contract. SOCOM spending on the sites has increased each year, from $10 million in 2009 to a $26 million payment on July 31, records show.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
And Now the Conclusion of The Spider Wreck Chronicles
Thursday, October 30, 2008
One smashed spider extraordinaire, coming up! Don't you just love those bloated little legs, the pimply red dots, and how they moved him after air-brushing the board? Oh, and just to mess with your sense of perspective: that red thing above the eyes is not another unibrow; it's his mouth.
I'll give you a moment to reorient yourself. (My ear hit my shoulder the first time, too.)
Now brace yourself, because next up is the most frightening Spider wreck I have ever seen.
Tell me that doesn't look like a demon-possessed Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street. Remember Snuffy?
That's truly terrifying, people. What next, a zombie Micky Mouse? Stop messing with my childhood icons!
Now, I'm told these cookie decorations are supposed to look like spiders on their webs:
But I'm pretty sure they're squashed ants on target boards. C'mon, four legs? How lazy are these decorators getting?
Of course, some err in the other direction:
That's 10 legs on the guy on the right. I'm also wondering if these spider puff balls are solid icing, 'cuz if they are then I couldn't think of a more appropriate inscription. Yeesh.
Thanks Caycee H., Shawn A., Kayla B., and Vanessa C.!
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- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
At first glance, I thought pic #1 was Michael Jackson's missing glove.
P.S. - It's about time you got this post up. I have to go to a meeting!! ;-P - October 30, 2008 at 9:32 AM
That top cupcake spider only has 6 legs, so technically it is a long legged cockroach!
- October 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- hillary said...
Congratulations, Wal-Mart, you are the first creators of the Tick Cake. Eeek!
- October 30, 2008 at 9:34 AM
- The Kitchen Gadget Goddess said...
I think the last one doesn't have ten legs - their meant to be pincers! Also, I think they're cupcakes, adding even more to the wreckiness!!! LOVE IT!
- October 30, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- Eternal Lizdom said...
I'm really impressed by the script on the Satan-Snuffy Cake... HAPPY HALLOWeen...
- October 30, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- Melinda said...
These cakes are INSANE!! Poor Snuffy! :(
- October 30, 2008 at 9:37 AM
- Laura said...
Since when did they stop teaching the fact that spiders have 8 legs? ...or did spiders change since I was in grade school? Scary stuff here. :)
- October 30, 2008 at 9:37 AM
The left blob of icing on the last picture looks like it's bleeding.
- October 30, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- joyce said...
EEEeeekkkk is right. A commenter from yesterday had it right, and has ruined it for me---these are TICKS, not spiders. Thanks.
- October 30, 2008 at 9:40 AM
- Unknown said...
Possessed Snuffy, or Cthulu? Either way, it's terrifying. Great work as always!
- October 30, 2008 at 9:41 AM
Those last ones look more like ticks than spiders. Enormous, bloated ticks, after a feast. Eeeeeek, indeed.
- October 30, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- Brian said...
That's not Snuffleupagus, it's Cthulu!
Ia! Ia! Cake Wreck fhtagn!
Also, if you look closely at a tarantula (an occupation I'd advise you against), you'd notice that in addition to its eight legs, it has two smaller leg-like appendages called pedipalps. Since those icing-ball creatures bear no other resemblance to any known spider, I have no idea what I'm going on about. - October 30, 2008 at 9:49 AM
i think the worst ones are the cookie "spiders." and i love how half of the web on the bottom left one is squiggly, and then the decorator obviously thought, "nope, that looks like crap, too" and didn't even bother to do the whole cookie the same way. classic.
- October 30, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Funnelcloud Rachel said...
Come on people, spiders have 8 legs! I don't think a single one of these examples has the right number of legs. Smashed spider #1 only has 6. And the 4-legged spiders...maybe a bratty kid tortured it by ripping half its legs off?
The demon Snuffy...I just have no words for that one! - October 30, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Jessica L. said...
Uh...spiders have 8 legs. I don't think ANY of these have 8 legs. Apparently, math - or at least counting - is not a valuable skill for cake decorators.
- October 30, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Carrie said...
Eeek is right!!! I am so dying right now because that second one does look just like Snuffy!!!lol!!!
And I cannot believe an actual bakery had those "spider" cookies in their display case...my 5 year old could make better looking spiders than that!!! - October 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM
I'm disturbed that the squashed ant cookies are the color of mold.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:00 AM
- HorribleLicensePlates said...
That "Eeeek" cake is great. I wonder what is going through the mind of a Wal-Mart cake decorator when they decided on an inscription. I'd like to think it's something like, "Man, this cake looks like crap. Eek! Uh, dude, that is perfect!"
- October 30, 2008 at 10:00 AM
- Sue said...
The squooshed ants are the best. Those are definitely unattractive cookies.
Your blog is the best. I've given you an well-deserved award. Check it out. - October 30, 2008 at 10:02 AM
- Amethyst Rose said...
4 or 10 legs? I think these decorators need to take a basic entomology course.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:02 AM
- wickedrebel said...
Woah! Six legged spiders? I do like the one that looks flattened!
The kind of spider I like! Keep up the great blog...it really brightens my day!!! - October 30, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Alright, get a young priest and an old priest. Snuffy, is there anybody in there with you?
Snuffy: Sometimes...
That second cake is SCARY. Or maybe poor Snuffy isn't possessed and he just wanted to dress as Samara/Sadako from "The Ring" and the long black hair got a little out of control? Hmm...
The first cake looks like spiders usually do in our house....smashed beyond recognition. And again with the six legs. *scratches her head* Can nobody count? - October 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM
- Unknown said...
Who ever thought black icing would be appetizing? Even Pepto Bismol comes with a warning that it may turn your tongue and/or stool black and it's pink!!!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- Unknown said...
I totally see Snuffy!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:10 AM
- WakeGrace said...
*runs to corner rocking and crying *
he was my favorite too.
also that CCC looks like most of the spiders in my house after my shoe finds them. - October 30, 2008 at 10:10 AM
That one looks more like Cousin It on a bad hair day!
Oh well.. at least it would be in-keeping with the Halloween Theme! - October 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- MeilingM said...
The first spider, besides only 6, albeit quite plump, flattened legs, was perhaps not purposely moved after the board was air-brushed. It looks like he was centered when the board was colored, but shifted on the way to the house where this picture was taken. Both of these problems are due to the cupcake-i-ness of the spider creation:
1) Spider legs the thickness of cupcakes makes for very wide spider legs.
2) The cupcake paper, as opposed to cake, on the bottom means he's fairly mobile in his clear plastic domed traveling case.
So, once again we see why CCC are a bad idea. QED - October 30, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- Alison said...
I nominate those alleged "cookies" for the Wreck Hall of Shame. I can't think of anyone I know who couldn't do a better job of making spiders. (or ants, for that matter)
Wait, I take that back; my 5 year-old nephew *might* have trouble. But I'd give even money on him, truly I would. - October 30, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- *James* said...
Those spider cookies look like they were saved from last halloween. Not too appealing I gotta say...
Love your blog! - October 30, 2008 at 10:16 AM
None of these spiders has eight legs! The first wreck only has six!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM
I love the spacing of the word Halloween on the second cake, too. Scary, indeed!!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- stephanickety said...
I think I wet myself over demon-possessed Snuffy.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:19 AM
- Sarah said...
No Way! I get to be the first to comment??? I'd like to say that I love cake wrecks and have been following the spidery extravaganza. I kinda liked the muppety spider yesterday. My hubby laughed hysterically while reading your "rasta" talk to me out loud. Todays wrecks...well exactley that. WRECKS! But can I politely point out one thing thats bothered me in all spidery posts? WHY can't anyone count anymore??? 4 legs, 6 legs, 10 legs? I think mybe 1 wreck actually had 8 legs. Talk about not being able to properly recreate something with life-like features. Its almost as bad as using horrible quotation marks!!!
love ya!
sp - October 30, 2008 at 10:19 AM
- Fleeting said...
Okay, I think I would have done a better job of doing spiders when I was elementary school than the "ant on bullseye" cupcakes! There was so much wobble there... I hope either the decorator is severely geriatric and caffinated, or else has Parkinson's, because whose hands shake that much!?
- October 30, 2008 at 10:20 AM
- Cortney said...
Goodness! I had milk almost come out of my nose this morning I was laughing so hard. The Snuffleupagus cake is horrible, poor little kids! And I agree about the ants on targets!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Someone needs to buff up on their spider anatomy. :P
- October 30, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Oh wow, more spider wrecks. xD
Awww. The last one reminds me of the little sootballs from Spirited Away though. And those things are adorable. - October 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM
That snuffy spider looks like Cousin It to me!
Kelley - October 30, 2008 at 10:25 AM
- Trevor said...
Okay, i have to disagree with you on the last one. Those aren't 10 legs on the one on the right. The front things are supposed to be pincers, like on an ant. So I think they are 8 legged ants, as opposed to spiders (Not that it makes it any better).
And the possesed one made me think of the Swamp Thing. You probably never saw that movie though..... - October 30, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Problem- the first one? Not a spider. Only 6 legs. Or, something happened to 2 of them. Poor thing.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- jemmo said...
Also on the hyper-podial spiders, the one on the left appears to have a splotch of ... blood? Eeek is right.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Etiquette Bitch said...
yecchhh!!!! that second one is just gross. i do not want cake today.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Unknown said...
The first cake has only six legs, not eight, so even if it was meant to be a spider, I'm seeing a tick. The kind they tell you to watch out in the spring because they carry lyme disease.
Ew. - October 30, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- Bekka said...
Actually, the second one looks like a brown Cthulhu.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM
- geeky Heather said...
"demon-possessed Mr. Snuffleupagus"
LOL!!!! - October 30, 2008 at 10:35 AM
I remember Snuffy, but it looks more like a demon-possessed Cousin It to me. :D
- October 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM
- A Swell Girl said...
microwaved Snuffie.. how could they!?
- October 30, 2008 at 10:37 AM
EEEEK is right! Were these decorated during take your child to work day? I am still scratching my head at the first one, never mind the 6 legs again, but if you turn it so the "mouth" is facing front, the writing is upside down. Love your blog, it is the first thing I look at every morning at work.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:39 AM
- Jessim said...
Well now we know where the missing legs from yesterdays spiders went! They are on the last cake. (I think the decorator meant for them to be pinchers in the front)
All this black icing - ew- how do you eat it?
The cupcake creations are so hard to make look nice, but I'm always impressed at the effort. I worked at a school that did not allow you to bring in a cake that needed to be cut, so cupcake creations were the only choice... - October 30, 2008 at 10:46 AM
- Robert said...
What really freaks me out is the number of people who keep putting (insert random non-8 number here) legs on their spiders, instead of the standard 8. Are we to assume that these are maimed spiders? That IS scary!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Maya said...
Snuffleupagus? My first thought was Cthulhu.
- October 30, 2008 at 10:53 AM
It appears that bakers are not aware that spider's have 8 legs. 8 People!! Not 6, not 2, not 10. Even little kids know that. Wreck-tastic!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- Aimee said...
OH MY MY MY! Ok, the flat spider, just laziness. BUT WHAT THE HECK is the deal with that hairy "Ode to Tarantula" crap. Yea, lets bring that out at the party. All the kiddies will go a runnin.. Yea Memories!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM
- NanU said...
is it too much to ask, (of cake decorators as of filmmakers), that arachnids have 8 legs and insects have 6? 10 appendages are for squid!
The best strategy to take here may be to Eat Them All Real Quick so we don't have to look at them any more. - October 30, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- Becky said...
OMG that Snuffleupagus thing is SCARY. I hope no one buys that for their children...can we say nightmares???
- October 30, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- Unknown said...
There are so many things to say, but I want to be sure there's enough room for all the comments - So, I'll just stick with the putrid color of the frosting on the squished ant / spider cookies.
N-A-S-T-Y...It looks like mold or something. Ick :o( - October 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM
- Abigail said...
EEEEEEEEEK is right! Good grief!
- October 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM
- KPP said...
Maybe the last spiders have 8 legs and 2 pincers. That would make me go "Eeek!"
- October 30, 2008 at 11:02 AM
- spartangogreengal said...
hey now.. take it easy on the poor decorators!! not everyone had a college course in invertebrate biology and knows that arachnid species have 8legs!
and, by the way, ants are insects and should have 6 legs.
Yes, both are members of the Arthropod phylum, but belong to different Classes! - October 30, 2008 at 11:03 AM
I want to cry.
- October 30, 2008 at 11:04 AM
"You're the only one who can see me, Bird. IN YOUR NIGHTMARES."
- October 30, 2008 at 11:06 AM
- LaurenH said...
The last one kills me!!!!
I think because.....OK, so we have a ten-legged spider (perhaps so he can share with some of his friends above...?) And I can see that maybe the idea was to make the front two pincers (yes, that's soooo much better)
But look at the one on the left. I'm assuming there is a leg behind the shine of the packaging and I still count....nine. Either way, he's a mutant! - October 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- Karen and Kyle said...
I thought the pimply 6 legged CCC was bad...until I saw the other wrecks on this post. In comparison, that first one is almost decent. Only in comparison and only almost decent...just to set the record straight!
- October 30, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- Mella said...
And again with the legs . Is it that hard to remember basic biology
- October 30, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- writtenwyrdd said...
That last one looks remarkably like two bloated ticks, which is even worse than bloated spiders with stubby legs.
These are definitely all wrecktastic. - October 30, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Um, sciencegirl, octopi have 8 legs (or arms if that's your preferred term).
- October 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Not Mr. Snuffleupagus...Cthulu.
- October 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Cake #2 - Agree with earlier posts -- Dear Snuffy has been eaten by Cthulu or The Swamp Creature. What would really make it a ick-tastic would be to change the colors to 'camo' or decomp. green & brown. Then I'd buy it & serve it up at my sci-fi halloween party as a Klingon petit-four (?)
- October 30, 2008 at 11:41 AM
If it were the icing balls in the last one that had 4 limbs instead of the ant cookies, they would have made awesome soot balls! (From the movie Spirited Away.)
But then there's still the black icing... which is disgusting. Even if someone made soot balls on purpose and were really cute, I still couldn't eat one. Black is a horrible color for icing. How much food coloring do they have to use to make it BLACK and not grey? - October 30, 2008 at 11:48 AM
- Janus said...
If those were solid icing, I would be going for them first.
And I think the two front thingies on the one you said had 10 legs are supposed to be antennae. - October 30, 2008 at 11:49 AM
I think the spiders in the last pic are complete with pedipalps. Those help spiders sense objects and aid in prey capture and feeding. They're part of the mouth, and not legs.
Just FYI. :o) (I have a tarantula btw)
The first 'spider' is so sad looking, and the demonic snufflupagus? Ugh. LOL
~Amy B - October 30, 2008 at 12:03 PM
I think 2 of the legs on the last post were supposed to be part of the mouth, mandibles or something like that
- October 30, 2008 at 12:09 PM
8 is not hard... 8 is easy. Right after 7. 8 is great!
These people have jobs???? - October 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Eight legs, people, EIGHT LEGS! Isn't that one of the first things we learn as children? Octogons and spiders - EIGHT.
I'd say that they haven't been watching Sesame Street, except that one Snuffy-like cake begs to differ.
Is it wrong that after reading this post, I'm craving cake? - October 30, 2008 at 12:12 PM
what's up with all these cake decorators forgetting that spiders are arachnids and thus have 8 legs?
- October 30, 2008 at 12:16 PM
- Andy Lester said...
I think the one you say is like Snuffy is more like Man-Thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Thing - October 30, 2008 at 12:16 PM
- LB said...
I TOTALLY thought it was Snuffy.
- October 30, 2008 at 12:22 PM
- Amanda said...
O M G Must. Breathe. I'm holding my sides from the Snuffy one.
- October 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Okay, you got me. That CCC is awful. It's only missing tire tracks.
Giant road kill spider.
What's he so damn happy about?:-) - October 30, 2008 at 12:36 PM
- Peggy said...
The spiders with 10 legs must have nicked them from the 6 legged spiders!
I LOVE this blog! My pal and I laughed ourselves into sore bellies on Monday night looking at all the cake wrecks. Must have been why I slept so well that night. Thanks! - October 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM
It's not Mr. Snuffleupagus, I think it's Cousin Itt from the Addams Family!
- October 30, 2008 at 12:47 PM
- Liz said...
this blog is crack for the soul.
Did the Walmart spiderball on the left have 8 1/2 legs? It's hard to tell. But, EEEEEK inded! - October 30, 2008 at 12:58 PM
- FreedomFirst said...
Squashed ants on target boards - right on! I think you found the perfect description.
- October 30, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- Julie Zaccone Stiller said...
Snuffleupaguss cake looks more like Cthulhu to me! Oh and by the way Cthulhu For President!
- October 30, 2008 at 2:08 PM
- Scrivvet said...
Holy cheez, that Spiderupagus is one nightmarish-lookin' creation. And you just know that the icing is the cheap kind you buy in a can at grocery stores; that spider no doubt has a clayey, flakey texture and enough sugar to burn the roof of your mouth off. Urgle.
- October 30, 2008 at 2:17 PM
- SarahSilent said...
The last ones remind me of the Soot Sprites in Spirited Away. Kinda cute in a not-spidery kind of way...
- October 30, 2008 at 2:27 PM
When in doubt, find out...
If you don't know what something looks like but want to draw (or make icing pictures of) it, then get a reference picture first!
I figure the first cake only has 6 legs because cupcake-legs are just too fat. I also can accept the idea that the last cake has 10-legged spiders because 2 legs are supposed to be palps. But those cookies? No excuse. - October 30, 2008 at 2:28 PM
- Kelly said...
These are definitely more wreck-taculous than yesterday's spiders. The Snuffy spider is creeping me out! Yesterday an example of an unintentionally good version of a muppet character; this one is definitely an unintentionally bad version of a muppet!
- October 30, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- ksaldria said...
The second one scares me o.o
- October 30, 2008 at 3:06 PM
To the anonymous poster who replied to sciencegirl:
Yes, octopi do have eight appendages, hence the name. However, squid, which is what sciencegirl was referring to, have ten: eight arms and two tentacles.
-phantomcranefly from livejournal (on a school computer so I can't log in) - October 30, 2008 at 3:15 PM
- Charlotte said...
It amazes me that it is so difficult to count to 8 for so many people...
- October 30, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- Marin (AntiM) said...
Or maybe the extra legs on the spider on the left are a failed attempt to represent the tibial hooks male tarantulas have on their front legs to restrain the female's fangs during mating.
Because we know most grocery store bakery artists arachnologists by education. - October 30, 2008 at 3:51 PM
- Bri said...
I'm very disturbed by the Devil Spawn-Snuffy cake.
And Hillary @9:33am is right -- Wal-Mart, that's a tick cake. That ain't no spider! - October 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM
The Snuffleupagus spider actually looks more like Cthulu...
um... lol, like a lot of other people said. - October 30, 2008 at 4:58 PM
I thought the second one looked like Davy Jones from POTC.
- October 30, 2008 at 5:25 PM
I actually get to correct you guys for once.
Actual spelling: Cthulhu
AWWWWWYEEEEAHHHH!!!! - October 30, 2008 at 5:47 PM
- MaryO said...
Oh Lord. Another ROTFLMAO entry. Squashed ants, yep. I C that 2 ! And I think I might be a little too old to know Snuffleupagus (sp?), but I definitely see Cousin It as did several other (I presume) Boomers did. I'm not sure about Cthulhu either, but I'll take your fan base word for it! I'll have to Wiki that one. I agree with the replete tick observation too. Yuck.
- October 30, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- K.Lee said...
Not snuffleupeguss...Cthulu!!!
- October 30, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Actually for Halloween there is an official Disney trading pin of a zombied Mickey, with creepy eyes and all.
- October 30, 2008 at 7:00 PM
- misa said...
Any kid who has seen a tarantula can tell you that the spider that appears to have ten legs actually has 8 legs plus in the front it has 2...ummm...don't know the actual word for them but when I was a kid we called them spider weenies. (though those are rather long ones...)
- October 30, 2008 at 7:17 PM
- KE said...
As a Dr. Who fan, you should recognize that Cake #2 is CLEARLY an Ood, not a spider. I mean, come on, isn't that obvious?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Doctor_Who_Planet_of_the_Ood.jpg - October 30, 2008 at 7:47 PM
- diddlesgirl said...
oh my goodness. my two year old has much better names for these cakes. the first is a duckie, the next is "fiderman", the others are all octopus or pirates... this makes much more sense than spiders!
- October 30, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Eeeeek is right...
- October 30, 2008 at 8:51 PM
the 9th and 10th legs on the last cake are obviously pedipalps
that's what they look like to me, and that would make them actually fairly anatomically correct, that is if they had a cephalothorax and an abdomen instead of just one...
of course you could argue that its a harvestman which appears to only have one body segment and also has 8 legs + 2 pedipalps
oh god I'm arguing about spiders on a cake blog.. mmm im going to be quiet now - October 30, 2008 at 9:06 PM
- Kami said...
Those spiders on those webs aren't bugs. They are cats.
- October 30, 2008 at 9:35 PM
- Mary Lasse said...
Many of these photos violate several basic spider principles.
1. Spiders have eight legs (not two, four, six, or ten...and heaven forbid a spider with an odd number of legs).
2. As far as I know, spiders don't have googlie eyes. I'm not sure I could live in a world where the potential of a spider with googlie eyes chasing me is possible. *shudder*
3. Spiders don't have smiley faces. And they especially don't have SQUIGGLY smiley faces that push the boundaries of physics.
I realize that there is a time and place for spider cakes and spider cupcakes, but is this batch of The Spider Wreck Chronicles the, err, "best" that cake decorators worldwide can offer?
How sad...and UTTERLY AMAZING. - October 30, 2008 at 9:45 PM
- Unknown said...
on the first picture you forgot to mention the fact that its missing two legs..
Maybe I'm wrong but since when do spiders have 6 legs?! - October 30, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- Charisse said...
And the worst thing about picture # 1?!?!?!? ITS A CUPCAKE CAKE WRECK!!!!!!
- October 30, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- Nauntie Lush said...
Those spiders from yesterday were in fact the ones that were at the store that I was yelled at for trying to take pictures. They are all kinds of day glow horror now, and most only have 4 legs on one side. (if they are there tomorrow morning I am buying one and taking its picture then sending it to you after letting everyone at work scarf it down.)These people are "professionals"? Bacon who is 4 could do a better job on no sleep and blindfolded than these people!
- October 30, 2008 at 11:05 PM
- evil & demented little cooker girl said...
i was laughing so hard when you said this "Tell me that doesn't look like a demon-possessed Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street. Remember Snuffy?"
:) - October 31, 2008 at 1:54 AM
- Pademelon said...
Ok I wouldn't have picked out that the red line on the first one (the "squashed ant") is a MOUTH because usually the direction the inscription faces is the direction you supposed to look at the cake from. So, since the text faces towards the camera, I vote it IS a unibrow! If the text faced the the same way as the supposed smile, THEN it would be a smile.
I just worked on spiders in my invertebrate zoology course at uni so I yelled at the screen with all the wrong-legged spiders. My husband threatened no more cake-wrecks if I couldn't behave myself. But I MUST MENTION ticks and mites are also arachnids and also have 8 legs. So these are more like beetles than ticks. - October 31, 2008 at 7:07 AM
- Mon said...
The second picture, with the "Happy Halloween" writing, i've figured out what it is....
It's a Chthulu cake!
The literary world's most unspeakable horror in sugar and chocolate.
Actually, if it actually is a Chthulu cake - it's really pretty awesome. However if it's a spider, then, well, yeah - it's just kinda sad. - October 31, 2008 at 12:32 PM
i do believe the legs at the front are supposed to be pincers... ridiculously long pincers.
- October 31, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Oh hell.. you made me snort!
A demon possessed Snuffy? I lurve you!!
I love your blog.. and this time.. the Muppet fanatic in me coudln't resist and had to post!
-Laurel - October 31, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Tamera said...
At first glance, "Snuffy" looks like Chewbacca to me.
- October 31, 2008 at 5:09 PM
- joared said...
Well, I like Snuffy a lot better than Barney -- now he's a real Halloween fright year 'round.
- November 1, 2008 at 7:06 AM
The cake that you think looks like a demented Snuffy reminded me of the evil possessed warthog-like creature in Hiyao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke". It's a great anime film from the true Master of the genre.
- November 3, 2008 at 6:17 PM
those extra legs are pedipalps -- short arm-like things the spiders use to help push food into their mouths
- November 3, 2008 at 8:12 PM
The "demon-possed Snuffaluffagus or whatever cake is actually Cthulhu!!! And while looking through the other comments, I found somebody else found this!!! Amazing. Now I need to learn to speak Cthuvian.
- November 4, 2008 at 12:51 AM
- Limegirl said...
langtry: I was just gonna say!
Demon Snuffy = Tatarigami/Demon Boar
Click here, see second from bottom.
Everyone have a look, the resemblance is striking, even if it was accidental! - November 7, 2008 at 5:50 PM
- I Heart Linux said...
Oh my word. That "demonic Snuffalupagus" monstrosity looks like the cursed boar god in Princess Mononoke.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:48 PM
- Research This Please! said...
Aww, c'mon! 8 legs and 2 pedipalps, very accurate from an arachnid point of view...
Shannon - November 13, 2008 at 9:19 AM
- Perry Strange said...
oh my God...
the first two are adorable.
... I'm serious. - November 24, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Your designation of number 2 as Sunfalupagus is generous! I think he looks like Swamp Thing on a bad day!
- December 31, 2008 at 6:32 PM
I absolutely love your blog! It's so refreshing and humorous! You go girl!!!!
- January 20, 2009 at 12:12 AM
The "demon-possesed Snuffy" looks more like the Boar Demon from Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke. Picture here: http://www.onlineghibli.com/mononoke_hime/newimages/DemonBoar.jpg
- June 5, 2009 at 9:52 PM
- Unknown said...
i think the decorator of the "eeeeek" cake meant the spiders to have pincers; that's why they have 10, um, appendages.
- January 2, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
Woah! Six legged spiders?
The kind of spider I like! I'll be on this blog every day for the rest of my life xx - October 7, 2010 at 4:54 PM
- Orion said...
I just found this website today, and have been going through it like water in a desert! I love the cakes, and the comments. They're amusing, often bringing smiles, but nothing made me laugh out loud until the possessed Snuffles cake. You were spot on there, Jen.
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Types of links that are not accepted:
- Links already in the list for that convention.
- Links to pages that only link to other reports/photos and have no reports/photos of their own or sites that have collected images from other sites.
- Links to articles written to promote the event before it started. (No local event calendars, preview articles, planning videos, press releases, etc.)
- Links to message board, forum, mailing list, or newsgroup posts.
- Links to Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram or links to individual videos on YouTube or similar sites.
- Direct links to photos (rather than pages containing photos).
- Direct links to podcast audio or video files. Linking to the podcast's page for that episode is fine.
- Multiple links for multiple days at one convention. (Just give us your main report URL for the convention, not a separate URL for every day of your report.)
- Links to pages that have nothing of interest to others. (Nobody cares if all you have are photos of you and your friends partying in your hotel room.)
- Links to sites that require registration (free or pay) in order to view photos.
If a web site you are submitting has multiple pages reporting on a single convention, please only submit one link. Out of fairness to all sites reporting from conventions, we have a one page per site per convention rule.


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