asploded bike parts thread

dang

at the kneebone

[quote=TimLOKOed]
Exactly how does one accomplish this variety of fail?[/quote]

i think you have to catch air and land wrong.

^Awesome.

But on a serious note, how the hell did that happen?

the second one, the dude likes to get rad

It was during the radness that the fork bent

then continued to ride, prolly cos dgaf.

And that concludes story time with wickedwagon.

qft. no bieks for me for a month or so.[/quote]

When I broke my kneecap it was eight weeks before I could bend it enough to complete a pedal stroke and about ten weeks before I could ride anywhere. My fracture was also not as severe as yours (no surgery needed, just a leg immobilizer).

Good luck, and enjoy doing involuntary one-leg drills.

I rusty’d my spider/ring

POWERLEGZ

[quote=wickedwagon]the second one, the dude likes to get rad

[/quote]

who/where is/was this?

cross race in iowa this past fall. his name is adam.

That bike looks pretty badass. Is it homemade or something?

Yikes!

Ouch. Whats the story on that?

not that i’m aware of. he has made an extra cycle out of a canondale mtb frame w/ bamboo tubes and carbon wrapping.

not that i’m aware of. he has made an extra cycle out of a canondale mtb frame w/ bamboo tubes and carbon wrapping.

I rode my last 20 miles last night constantly fiddling with the damn barrel adjusters trying to get the indexing to behave…

Turns out that it ain’t my derailleur-adjusting skills that are lacking:

The Record chain came with the lightly-used group. I used a master link to reassemble it, but the original owner used the special pin — guess which pin failed?

I asploded a Campy chain once.
Replaced it with a sram chain and never looked back.

master links > pins.

It’s just so much better to never break a chain except to shorten it, especially with narrow ones. For field failures just fully take out the fucked outer plates and replace with a second master link.