what kit have you wrecked on the trail?

…or seen wrecked?

Me:
– exploding shock (another’s)
– endless broken spokes (most common failure after punctures)
– rear mech (another’s.)
– frame (dented by upflying baby’s head)
– seatpost collar (worn; wouldn’t hold)
– chain (snapped)
– rim

Probably easier to list what I haven’t. Eeeerr….. I guess its stem, seatpost,grips and I haven’t managed to wreck a frame yet but everything else I think.

I’ve seen a few snapped seat posts and a couple of taco’d rims

my tatties

I think the best one I have winessed was a Session 88 with the back end held on by brake hoses – the chain stays had snapped clean off.

mechs and hangers are quite annoying to lose

I’ve done several seatposts, couple of shock springs, folded a granny ring in half once, dented frames, cracked a frame, snapped chains and spokes, blown various shocks and damping cartridges in forks and no doubt other things I can’t remember.

I bet no one’s ever taken out a pedal? That’s got to be hard to do.

Has anyone had their bars fail on them with no warning

NC17 seatpost, bent the bloody thing! Snapped many chains as well.

Pedals aren’t that hard, the axles snap if you hit stuff hard, and the bodies can crack in two aswell.

As above, it’s harder to think of parts I’ve not seen broken! Actually struggling to think of a single part that I’ve not seen break?

Front mech might be it, saw one bent with the rivet at the back of the cage pulled out, but it was zip tied back together again so doesn’t count maybe?

twisted stem & Bars
Mate Snapped bars (10+ years old though)
mechs (dozens)
chains
wheels
mate snapped seat post bolts
frame (at chain stays)
saddle
broke SPD mechanism
shifters

I’ve snapped one frame and cracked a weld on another.

I bet no one’s ever taken out a pedal? That’s got to be hard to do.

Not if you use Crank Brothers!

I’ve had a Bontrager pedal break on the road, and been with a guy who broke some Candies.

I’ve seen virtually everything brake at one time or another! Luckily it’s rarely me, I think all I’ve broken is a saddle, pedal, chain ring (lost a bolt, then ripped itself apart with only 3!), many many broken chains, one rear mech and hanger, 2 gear cables (one taking a shifter with it on the road), a front mech, freehub, a few nipples (never a spoke though), and a rim. Not too bad for 10+ years riding and racing.

I managed to bust a rear mech, snap the mech hanger, twist the chain and then bend a hardtail frame in one day at Lake Garda!

Only other damage on the trail was a rear mech.

I once broke a saddle with my testicles at Chicksands. Well bent it anyway. Loads of other stuff, but – for some reason – that’s the one that stays with me 😉

My shoulder 🙁

I thought I had a good roster but you all are hardcore

When this happens, are you just “eh, whatever” or do you get a bit more peeved at the manufacturer? I wish they made kit to better tolerances, even if it was way heavier. Generally, why are poor build standards tolerated in mtbing? I think the mags should be way, way tougher on companies than they are. It is not acceptable for a shock to blow up on the trail, ever, and it is not acceptable for Fox to require shocks to be serviced every 30 hours, either – that’s ridiculous.

I find boutique brands like Orange, Fox, Santa Cruz, and particularly, Hope, particularly guilty of this, as they market their stuff as being built to tougher standards than Shimano/Specialized etc. (and charge a premium), when there’s no difference in terms of durability as far as I can see.

When did you last have to bleed your car brakes?

When did your motorbike shock last blow up due to cold (but not even freezing) weather?

I digress

Helmets X3 (basic model Giro, Giro E2, Giro Xen)
Mechs
Mech Hangers with the 1mm twig of doom!
Seatpost clamps
Talas Fork Failure
2 x Maverick post seat clamp assy’s
Rear shock (cold killed RP23)
3 x rims
1 wtb saddle after a particular clumsy landing

i have thought long and hard and the only part of a bike that has never given up the gost on me would be the mainframe on my yeti(that’s the kiss of death right there)it’s had three swingarms on it,and everything else i have at some point broke.been riding since 88 mind.

c’dale gemini frame
cranks
saddle
taco’ed a couple of wheels
rear mech
seat post.
not too bad really.

out of that lot the seat post caused the most pain, snapped at the bolt and I went off the back and landed on my coccyx, made my eyes water that one!

When this happens, are you just “eh, whatever” or do you get a bit more peeved at the manufacturer? I wish they made kit to better tolerances, even if it was way heavier. Generally, why are poor build standards tolerated in mtbing?

IME very few things that break happen suddenly and without warning/reason, those that do are often products which you know are likely to be dodgy, again CB pedals are known for their poor durability.

I snapped a saddle because I was using a road saddle on the MTB, rode through a compression sat down and snapped the shell.

The most annoying/spontaneous failures are usually mechs/hangers IMO, most other things can be predicted/dealt with trail side.

Car and motorbike analogies struggle because weight just isn’t a factor to the same extent. I imagine if you’re doing a lot of motorbike racing (not plodding along country roads), you have to bleed your brakes and rebuild shocks as often as on an MTB!

erm,

apart from myself ( shoulder, ribs, arm, hand, wrist, jaw, stitched up eyes, head, torn nerves in face )

snapped carbon cranks in half
chains
bent rims
spokes
pedals
chainrings
forks
seats
frame(s)
1 x turner rockers
2 x turner backend
1 x turner frame ( all seperate crashes)
titanium,steel and aluminium x2 frames,

My shoulder

Same here, did it at the end of August and still giving me problems.. just found out I’ve been “approved” to book an appointment with the NHS physio to try and sort it out.

Frame-snapped
Rear mechs-Lots
Forks
Shifters,
Ripped open brand new tyres.
My wrist
So many crank brothers pedals i lost count/bent axles
Pulled cleats from the bottom of shoes
Rims x4
Spokes x 10
Giro Zen helmet

my V8’s tore up my calf on my DH bike and a few wheels has had to be added with all the big buckles!!

good point!

interesting to see crank bros pedals up there – I thought they were a benchmark for quality…

Quality and Crankbrothers in the same sentence?!!!!!

orange p7 frame, hope \ mavic wheel, marzochi comp forks and brakes\ forks on someones motorbike

🙁

Two weeks in Morzine, Blew my Forks, some thing inside TFT fixed, swing arm bearings, BB bearings, Front & rear wheel bearings, 3 sets of pads and a bent handle bar from one off, lost loads of paint from my frame from the uplifts,Rear brake caliper was never the same again had to replace it. best two weeks riding I’ve ever had 😀

Most recent breakage was managing to snap an SLX front mech pretty much in half. While turning right at traffic lights on the homeward urban leg. Still can’t work that one out.

Andy

i snapped a bb axle once, right next to the crank.
managed to pedal home just using the right foot though lol.
snapped a few spokes in my time, a chain once.
had a brake cable snap on my front brake, pulling the straddle wire straight down onto the tyre, with predictable results (and bent forks).
thats about it, guess ive been pretty lucky?

Everything, multiple times.

Has anyone had their bars fail on them with no warning

Yep.

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I think my most common failures are either cranks or frames. Cranks preobably have the win…..

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If only I’d taken pictures of all of them.

Holy crap Jon – do you weigh 22 stone and ride 20 foot gnarly hucks all day?

I’ve snapped bars and pedals.One set of each. I’ve also snapped a few brake and gear cables back in the olden days – do they count?

I weigh about 12 stone (at the moment). Probably more like 13 stone when I was snapping all that stuff. The problem is power, I have too much. 😉

Must be 😐

I broke all my cables with the strength of my thumbs…

Mongoose Teocali Frame
numerous saddles (charge spoon, sdg I-beam wotsit)
x9 rear mechs (2 in the last few years)

I rode over a clip-on cannondale saddlebag thing in epping forest, then picked it up and took it home, washed it up good as new and stuck it on my seat tube. It fell off next ride and got mashed up in my spokes and rear mech. I think it was jinxed/posessed by gremlins/evil or perhaps even badly designed. It was indestructable though and I imagine it has lived on on several epping riders bikes before someone saw fit to burn it or smash it with a big hammer.

Why din’t you just give it to me, then that wouldn’t have happened (I would’ve made sure it was secure).

Snapped a frame at the dropout end of the chainstay, with my AWESOME pedalling power.

Bin pretty lucky with kit though really.

I’ve broken every single individual component on a bike at some point 😳

highlights would include bending an azonic shorty DH stem about 20deg
smashing an FSA Pig headset cup in half, bending a shock shaft and snapping another, and snapping half the peadl body off various pedals.

highlights would include bending an azonic shorty DH stem about 20deg

😯

How the chuff did you manage that?????