Borrowed a mate's patriot for the weekend, it came with SPDs so just put some flats on it ready for Brechfa tomorrow. Took it for the first ride down the street, "jumped" off a curb and the axle snapped!

The kids in the street found it amusing, I didn't 🙁

I blame the dog…

Hows the nuts? What cranks were they. XT?

that's not really the fault of the bike now is it, fatty? [/pure speculation from a proud patriot owner]

So the Patriot is in didn't fail really then?

Dog looks amused.

Did the'tollah lean on it?

singlespeedstu

Did the'tollah lean on it?
Or look at it?

I got myself 17 stitches in my calf in 1996 snapping an xt axel, proper skewered me! Only used cheapo solid ones after that

thats the gods of mountain biking punishing you for your love of musical theater! 😀

is this just you chickening out of riding tomorrow? 😀

want me to bring the one at the flat with me?

Just replaced saints with deore on my burly ht for a spain trip. Think I might pay the weight penalty and swap back to remove the scenarios of disaster from my mind.

But swede you ride with such grace and style that i can't believe you ever break anything…

Still laughing about high side to low side to lotus position eh 😛

Best crash ever.

FACT

Why thank you. Still have two knackered fingers from that little dismount demo.

MrNutt: Wouldn't miss your annual ride for the world, bring those shonky cranks and we'll do some bodging in the car park 🙂

Failing that, I'll just have to demo another Orange 5 from skyline cycles 🙂