We'll after 2 weeks without my canyon nerve (new forks ,xt deraillur )went out yesterday and after an hour on my local trails a stick decided to jam in my rear wheel causing my new deraillur to go into my rear wheel snapping a spoke and snapping mech hanger and stay and smashed up deraillur (very p##### off)rang wife to pick me up in the car whist walking to the nearest road lost one of my gloves .just wondered if anyone else has had days like this looks like it is going to be expensive
I had one of those days without breaking anything yesterday, unless you count tearing a shoulder muscle.
Foot down on even the slightest technical climb, wheels heading sideways off every root and rock, missing the line, nearly OTB or semi-crashing several times. Got to the point I was walking everything remotely droppy.
It could have been a lot worse! You could have lost BOTH gloves!
I snapped a spoke... it was a HOPE wheel... came with 2 spare spokes... I fixed it in 20 mins... crisis averted 🙂
You had a better day than me, I didn't ride 🙁
snapped the stay? Oof.
I had to get 4 new tyres, a service, brake fluid and front pads and a new ferkin turbo in the last 10 days so count yourself lucky!!
Hope nothing else goes wrong and the buffer is well and truly used up! :S
Not as bad as the OP but I snapped my hanger a few months back at the start of a big climb home. Managed to get enough siganl to call my wife to pick me up, told her how long I though it would take me to walk back to the car park. The really crap part was that it dawned on me that I walked (coasted down slight inclines) about the same speed as I would usually ride it. Need to speed up.
Back in 06(07/08?) (when we were in the middle of a good summer) a piece of slate flicked up through my rear wheel and took out three spokes a mech and hanger, had to walk seven miles back to the car, got home to find that the bike company (Mountain Cycle) had gone into receivership and parts were NLA, had to wait eight weeks for a mate in engineering to machine a new one (and got two spares) and missed what was left of the summer.
Cracked my frame a while back, thought "that'll be expensive"- it was, I got a replacement triangle for £50 but ended up buying the bike new forks, bars, a new reverb oh and 2 carbon fibre rims 😆
The technicals that leave you without a drive train are the worst. I hate walking and usually drop the saddle and try to coast along using feet on the floor to gain movement like one of those ancient bone shakers, must look funny to people who see you, but who cares.
Bodge not an option (in at least some of the above cases)?
Trundling along forest path on CX bike, see a big bit of wood, slow down to prepare to hop or roll, a smaller bit of wood got thrown up, wedged between mech and wheel, wrecked the mech, bent the hanger part of the frame. Ouch. however managed to shorten the chain and SS it home.. I guess not all bikes make that feasible..