Seeing how there is a penchant on this forum to post pics of bikes, how about posting some pictures of broken bikes and bits to brighten up the day? Extra credit will be given for accompanying tales of derring do or just plain stupidity which led to the breakage.
Cheers
Sanny
A poorly Psylo fork:
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Thread was damaged during a service (stupid plastic top caps). A few days later blatting down some singletrack, the whole u-turn upper-assembly jettisoned itself into a nearby field and startled some cows.
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Snapped On-One Doofer during Dartmoor night-ride. Tried to fix with spanner splint and zipties, ended up shortening chain and running as if bike had horizontal dropouts.
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Snapped mech hanger on Shinythings' bike. He had a spare one in his pack.
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Cracked fixie frame. Still in shed awaiting repairs.
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Broken Saracen. Don't know exactly what's wrong with it. I can't seem to be able to put my finger on the problem. 😉
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mate of mine has a rather poorly looking bottom jockey wheel that's all pointed like a really knackered middle chainring. no pics but also i know he's not bothering to replace it cos the bottom jockey wheel only guides the chain, dont do much else.
Destroyed when the idiot riding rode out in front of a VW Golf.
It was their maiden ride. Whilst lying on the road, I looked round to see my bike and saw the red springs. It looked like it was bleeding 🙁
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This was how I got the 9 miles back to my car after the rear mech committed suicide in to the rear wheel.
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Found this when cleaning the frame one day
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And this 18 months later in the replacement frame.
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Unfortunatley i don't have any pics of the forks after crashing in to a tree.
ETA i hope that this has worked as i can't see the pics from work.
Broken person
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Broken bikes
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oops didn't get the linky thing quiet right, thicko.
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And I can't spell. Doh!
I ran over a piece of wire (the stuff that they tack on the top of wooden fences), my front wheel flipped it up on to the big ring and it got dragged round to the under side of the chain stays. The big ring failed under the load, the bike stopped dead and stayed upright still caught on the wire, I flew through the air and landed on hands knees and chin.
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Ouch.
Went to LBS on the way home covered in mud and blood. Dropped it off and walked the rest of the way.
poison, in that "broken person" x-ray you've put up, i just can't see the problem? grazed elbow? 😆
The Santa Cruz is outstanding. I'm guessing that something deceptively stationary jumped out? Ha! Ha!
Sanny
Pah, carbon bars + drop at start of Spooky Woods at GT. Wasn't even me, it was the wife that did this:
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And me having a tyre roll off the rim, also at GT funnily enough - resulted in me tearing my right ankle ligaments somehow:
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turner flux
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trek liquid
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Ohh, my speciality!
Stick in the rear wheel, broken mech not shown
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Rode into a parked car
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Terminal chainsuck
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I managed to do this to a road bike, front wheel fell through the grid on a drain. The bike stopped in an instant and tried to rip the fork through the head tube, but successfully launched me down the road. 24/12/08, twas a happy festive season for me 🙁
Sticking to mountain biking from now on, nowhere near as dangerous as road riding!
The Santa Cruz is outstanding
looks a bit like a shitting dog, doesn't it !
PP, that isn't an On-One frame, that last pic, is it?
No, silly me- it can't be. They're perfectly designed! 😉
The guy with the Santa Cruz walked away without a scratch, unlike the tree he hit.
As for the broken person, it took more than an elastoplast to disguise it from the missus.
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RB - Leave it! Let it go......
I was looking for a pic of my bent Saracen commuters' forks, too, but that's gone now....
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Porcupine Rim, Moab. This was the guides Giant which had failed on one of the many dropoffs. He'd been complaining about flex and the bike feeling like it had a puncture for a few minutes before he noticed the break!
The guy with the Santa Cruz walked away without a scratch, unlike the tree he hit.
looks like blood smeared round the area of missing bark..!
