Not sparkly, so far. I rode the bike part of the Merrell Duathlon I'm doing on Saturday, got bad chain suck in the sand and did something horrible to the front mech of my 456 (no idea what – I threw it in the shed in disgust).
So I had to ride the Stumpy (the bike I'm riding on Saturday) to work today, got a stick in the rear mech while bunnyhopping a log and chewed the mech cage of an X-0. My LBS is quoting £90 for the whole cage as SRAM don't sell the inner metal cage half, so I have to buy the alloy inner, carbon outer, ceramic bearinged jockey wheels and a Ti spring.
I'm getting scared to go out!