Pictures of broken race stuff
08-18-15, 11:39 AM
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Pictures of broken race stuff
Pictures of things broken/damaged at racing venues.
Your picture of someone else's stuff.
or
Picture of your stuff.
I'll repost some I posted in other threads.
The Mercury M5s junior road over parking curbs in a Belgium race. He then road about 30 more miles on them.
Your picture of someone else's stuff.
or
Picture of your stuff.
I'll repost some I posted in other threads.
The Mercury M5s junior road over parking curbs in a Belgium race. He then road about 30 more miles on them.
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08-18-15, 11:44 AM
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The Tarmac. I don't know where or how this happed. I suspect Paris Roubaix juniors may have helped fatigue things.
08-18-15, 11:55 AM
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Yeah, I'm not really interested in posting pictures of broken things from sponsors, even if I'm not getting free stuff. Biting the hand that feeds you and what not.
08-18-15, 12:28 PM
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Heh, i appreciate this thread.
This is a bike as seen after a high speed crash(there were like 6 of us involved?). My speedometer went from ~35 to 0 but I had scrubbed a decent amount of speed, I would suspect he was doing over 40 when he went down and a bunch of people landed on his bike. I was going to hide the Trek logo but they're the only ones that would dare use that paint scheme, and realistically no bike would come out of that situation unscathed so I don't feel like this reflects badly on the manufacturer.
This is a bike as seen after a high speed crash(there were like 6 of us involved?). My speedometer went from ~35 to 0 but I had scrubbed a decent amount of speed, I would suspect he was doing over 40 when he went down and a bunch of people landed on his bike. I was going to hide the Trek logo but they're the only ones that would dare use that paint scheme, and realistically no bike would come out of that situation unscathed so I don't feel like this reflects badly on the manufacturer.
08-20-15, 02:46 PM
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No. I mean, the hard pedal strike 300m from the finish ended my chance of doing well, and didn't make me any friends, but I did finish. The spring blade thing didn't come out until I wiggled it after the finish.
08-20-15, 04:32 PM
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Re-post - just trying to keep in all in one place. Lamination broke on an attack.
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Some mechanic cross threaded WB cage. Got a bit of alloy one the screws when I removed the steel bolts.
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stripped the brake shoe on my tririg omega break last night. cannibalized a sram red brake shoe from my race bike for today's ride. Super annoying. There's a reason every other company had a threaded nut thingy and doesn't put threads in the aluminum brake shoe directly.
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No - not really valid as was not racing. But...was riding on tandem with wife - say 1995ish and they had an unmarked ditch cutting trough under a train overpass (for locals Las Pulgas Road leaving the base) in the shadows. We were on double Spinergys and hit the ridge at about 30 mph as both wheels asploded. Front kinda stayed together back collapsed completely and left rear derailleur and crank dragging on ground. Construction company was rather quick to pay for everything. As we stayed up there was just replacement cost. They wanted the wheels, but I kept the crank.
