What was the last thing you broke….

My I.G.E set up was a tv on a upside down monitor stand.

I wanted to raise it 6 inches but somehow i managed to drop it.

Im not very happy.

Much swearing happened

Ooops.

My little toe nail on a stool in the holiday cottage kitchen during a wine fuelled hunt for crisps last night.

Ouch that’s really unlucky.

Mine was a dinghy mast section while replacing a plastic sleeve. I had to drill three holes through the sleeve to match the existing holes in the mast.

For some reason I did it with the sleeve in place but all carefully measured or so I thought. Two holes went straight through perfectly aligned the third was about 3mm off centre and I ended up with a figure 8 shaped hole that wouldn’t hold a rivet and being at the highest stress point on the tube it would have been a very quick and jagged edged failure even if it had.

Just glad it was the alloy version and not the 3x the price carbon one.

My little toe nail on a stool in the holiday cottage kitchen during a wine fuelled hunt for crisps last night.

It sacrificed itself for the greater good

I broke an exhaust pipe the other day. This also induced quite a lot of swearing

Oh dear….🤔🤔🤔🤔

The cafetiere at work yesterday.

I dropped a pyrex casserole dish I have had for 40 years.  It shattered into a million pieces

A water bottle after I threw it across the garden having a hissy fit over something really trivial!

Think it was that my son couldn’t find the keys to a lock that was locked to his bike frame and through the bottle cage meaning he couldn’t fit a bottle in there and we were just about to go for a ride….

Might get a new telly for the house and use the one from my lounge….

3 spokes on a wheel – fixed those and went for a ride only for another to break – it’s a right faff to fix as it’s tubeless.

on a different bike – half a chain so that I limped home trying not to break the other side of the link

What’s IGE?

In garage entertainment.. .

Some bones in my foot, conveniently just before I’m off work for a couple of weeks…

…and my Mont Blanc pen I’ve had for over ten years.

Some metatarsals…

Some bones in my foot, conveniently just before I’m off work for a couple of weeks…

Legally you can cancel holidays and claim sickness instead, so retaining the days off for when you’re better.

Just came here to say that as I’ve not broken anything recently*

*expect an update tomorrow, I’ve clearly just banjaxed myself

Snap! (Literally) 🤣

Rear rim on the hardtail. It had a hard life…

Might get a new telly for the house and use the one from my lounge….

So you didn’t accidentally drop the one in the garage then – it was all part of the bigger (quite literally) picture?

Wind. Does that count?

Unusually, not much for a while.

Try not to break toes folks, the most unpleasant bit is when the nail falls off, then the nail start’s to grow back, but the edges are sharp and cause in-grown nails. It’s taken 18 months since breaking my toe for the nail to sort it’s self out. Painful indeed.

Rear wheel in Switzerland on day 2 of 14. You dont want to know how expensive new wheels are out there

X01 12 speed rear mech

Lot’s of cheap ones currently online says the pals, turns out they’re cheap because they only go up to 50T, so bought a GX for half the price of the cheapest X01 instead…

A freehub. Been breaking them in many interesting ways for years. This one was a first, the micro spline part sheared away from the rest of the Freehub body. FFS.

And, actually, also broke another just after that – DTSwiss ratchet ring decided to port company with the hub body. FFS again!

A collarbone.

Nanny really shouldn’t be allowed anything with a freewheel. Fixie or balance bike only from now on 🙂

Legally you can cancel holidays and claim sickness instead, so retaining the days off for when you’re better.

Cheers, but I can still work, and if I defer any of my work I’d have to pick it up later…just a bummer that I’ll be a bit less mobile.

It does mean, however, that I can sit in pubs or in the garden for extended periods without feeling guilty!

My wife’s favourite pint glass, she uses them for squash. It was a Becks Vier one with a square base which she found easy to hold with her limited grip. I imagine I won’t find another.

Ta da! Here’s two.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185957979535?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=NjTkbcvySrO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=DkdiOL5LQVe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Edit – actually looks like there 10 if you want to be really prepared.

Unusually, not much for a while.

Try not to break toes folks, the most unpleasant bit is when the nail falls off, then the nail start’s to grow back, but the edges are sharp and cause in-grown nails. It’s taken 18 months since breaking my toe for the nail to sort it’s self out. Painful indeed.

I’ve got some lovely photos of my big toe just before and just after the nurse pulled my big toe nail off, happy to post them 😀
Breaking the metatarsals and dislocating the ball of my big toe didn’t hurt half as much as the dying toe nail and constant infections.

@tthew. Very kind of you. I think I found the last one in a hedge bottom though. Still, it would get me in her good books for a while.

Oh, so you quite literally want to ‘find’ one!

I’ll keep my eyes open. 😁

A spoke, cycling along a Dutch cycle path yesterday. I’m blaming the incessant rain here. Still plenty of stroop wafel to eat.

BBC broke their News app in the latest update….its awful now

Madame’s glasses frames, I trod on them, they were on the floor.  This would have been a very bad thing for our holiday had not a super efficient Spanish optician found some frames a tad smaller and cut the lenses to fit in 10 minutes for a bill of only 52e. He also added  a string thing so they hang around her neck when she takes them off. “Best glasses I’ve had for a long time she says” (nothing will ever replace her blue ones which are simply worn out).

A Dell docking station. Spilt some tea near it and the change of humidity clearly tipped it over the edge. FFS

My Bike in its entirety, my left arm and my right leg nearly lost my foot.
I got run over by an Isuzu pickup truck at a roundabout in the Adelaide Hills.
The good news is that 6 months later I’m fully watertight and have a new bike!
‘The guy who nearly killed me got a $500 dollar fine!

I would say but it would probably not be the last thing I broke by the time I have finished typing

lost my right JBL Reflect Flow earbud.  Left one won’t work without it so broken. Loved those earbuds.  Got an amazon left one and charging case – also useless.

I cant be the only one – is there an earbud orphanage were left buds, right buds and charging cases can be reunited?

A small tent pole.

We’re using our inflatable beam tent but it has 3 small poles that hold the door porch parts open that you’ve to remove before folding.

I remembered two, but forgot the third. The crunch when I folded it reminded me almost exactly of the last time I made the same mistake! 😭