Had a slight off today when out on my road bike. Coming down a decent stretch of road but maybe trying to go a little bit too fast, I locked up coming into a bend and like an idiot didn’t get back off the brakes. Straight lined into a nice grassy bank and ended in a full OTB moment.
GPS plot shows a fairly quick deceleration from almost 48mph to nothing at the end of the ride:
Bike has gone from this (photographed at the Bespoked Bristol show earlier this year) :
to this:
It was the lugged 953 frame that I custom built over this winter. I’m a pretty big lad at 6’4″ and about 18.5 stone so pretty impressed that that was all the damage. The front wheel is still absolutely true (pretty good advert for my wheel building I guess)
Thankfully, due to the lugs/brazing construction, with luck I should be able to remove the knackered tubes and rebuild it.
You’re lucky to come out of that unbroken yourself! I remember that feeling of massive stupidity only too well after almost breaking my neck/back eight weeks ago – the bike was absolutely fine and I escaped without longterm damage but almost ruined my life. Still not quite fixed but been back riding (slower than normal) for about a month.
The joy of a nice steel frame is it’s usually repairable and you can even do it yourself! (Are you sure that such a pretty frame wasn’t self-harming in an attempt to get some more aesthetically pleasing cranks? 😉 )