perhaps the joke was on me this whole time
or maybe the joke was the friends we made along the way
or maybe i am the joke
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oh i thouht the JRA joke was that they were indeed not just simply riding along, but were up to more sinister things.
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we might be
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I once had the front bolt of a two bolt seatpost snap and the saddle nose shot straight up and smooshed my nuts. Right in the middle of a six-corners intersection.
Another time, my cranks did this thing in the middle of a six-corners in the middle of a blizzard. This one was my fault because I was rushing the night before to get the bike built up so I could ride it in said blizzard.
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Just riding along right?
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Just riding along with the fixing bolts finger tight, yeah.
I’ve done that more times than I would like to admit. Usually it’s because I’m going to use the torque wrench on them as the final step, which I then forget.
Yeah the one time I totally blew a chain was of course standing to hammer at a green light through a big intersection. Chain shot forwards off the chainring right into the middle of the street, my nuts shot straight into the back of the stem.
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I’ve only broken one chain so far and it was also in the intersection. Thankfully the chain stayed on the bike and I just thew it in the crate and used the throttle and hub motor to get me the <1 mile home.
Likewise the only chain I’ve fully broken was right in the middle of the Clark and Addison intersection in front of Wrigley Field during a Cubs game.
A few years back i broke a chain and of course it was when I was trying to hurry up through an intersection. Chain snapped I ate it and I ended up with a gnarly chainring puncture wound in my right calf. Then I had to limp 2 miles home in the pouring rain.
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This is the way
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Still never broke a chain but I did shatter an 8 speed cassette cog starting from the light at the base of the Pentacrest in Iowa City. That was actually not so bad because I was able to shift gears and keep on keeping on
I broke chains regularly for a while in the late 80s as no one had told me I needed to button off when changing gears. I got really quick at mending them… always when racing.
I feel like a bigger frame and a slammed seatpost would be way better than the small frame and a mile of spacers. Either way riding head on into a flight of stairs on a bike designed for pavement is probably not gonna end well.
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it’s a surly. of course it’s gonna need a stack o’ spacers. but it’s very reddit to give someone size advice based solely on a picture of 1/8 of their bike.
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I’d say the same thing with no picture
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Only one leg. That’s only half a kickstand.
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