I managed to fall off the bike today on the flat and miraculously managed to break three spokes and buckled the wheel on the front.
The three Broken spokes are all in a row ripped from the rim, and I'm in a B&B and sposed to be riding the Quantocks tomorrow.
Would you ride it, or am I being a Pansy.
RT
my shins hurt and right hand rib cage 🙁
I’d maybe ride a back wheel like that but I wouldn’t chance it on the front.
I erring that way as well. Might do a canal path type bimble whilst others shread the gnarr.
discretion being the better part of valour.
Definitely not safe. Not only will the wheel be substantially weakened, the ripping out of spoke will have started cracks around the spoke holes - probably not drastically structural in themselves right now, but it is a front wheel and dentistry is expensive these days. 🙁
If you had the tool/time/experience then you could juggle the spokes around so that the three breakages were spread around the wheel.
Ride Scraped. 🙁
Thanks guys.
In something of an ironic twist, I snapped my front rim and taco'd it today. And got posted out of the front door as a result. Pretty much out of nowhere too. Spooky.