Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - the broken thread

In honor of the broken C-Records from yesterday, what parts have -you- broken on your bike?

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I broke off one of my Sugino 75 pedals a few weeks back...

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i've gone through 2 bottom brackets since spring break. i guess 3rd time's a charm.

Um, my wife snapped her Ultegra rear der in half last week. I'm so proud of her! I think I'll rebuild her bike as a SS when she's not looking...

snapped the frame where the seatpost goes into it and not because the seatpost was was under inserted

Very few parts... A stem, 2 spokes. That's all the parts that broke during riding in the last 20000 K. Weighing 130 pounds helps:D

i break a spoke on my front wheel fairly regularly... four since i got the bike in august... damn 28h radial lacing

i break a spoke on my front wheel fairly regularly... four since i got the bike in august... damn 28h radial lacing

time to kick your wheelbuilder in the groin.

various spokes.
snapped a toe clip, but that was my fault for not noticing how dead it was.
snapped a chain, but that was due to a drunken adventure with a chain breaking tool.
cracked a frame, but that was probably due to age.
bent an axle, but it was a suzue jr, so it was bound to happen sometime.

I really should just rebuild the wheel with a cross pattern but i'm worried about messing it up doing it by myself and too cheap to take it to the LBS for them to fix it

maybe i'm nuts, but i have reoccuring dreams about my something major breaking on my bike - bb shell rusting out, seat stay breaking, fork getting absurdly bent - **** like that. i wonder what it means

Broke my first road frame when the down tube/head tube (bonded) lug let go. Stripped the lockring threads on my Eno hub. Taxi broke my Marin...

I think I've broken almost everything there is to break on a bike by now.

an axle. that's it. oh, no, i put a huge dent in a rim from running into a curb head-on while drunk...i was using clipless pedals, too, and did a flip and a half before landing on my face with bike, bent rim and all, laying on top of me.

i've broken myself a few times. when i'm riding, that counts as "something on the bike", right?

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EAI, but they replaced it like reasonable people.

Holy crap! I take it back! I've never broken a cog before!



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EAI, but they replaced it like reasonable people.

No more sprocket grinds for you young man!

I had a bmx bike that I broke a couple times. THe first time was on the day that I learned to pro-hop... I did it all the way home from school... rather, half-way home from school, because I snapped the thing that goes from the top of the fork to your handlebars in half.

I ended up riding the bike for about 2 or 3 months without handlebars.

Then later, after fixing the handlebars, I was doing pro-hops again, and I snapped the bottom tube in half about two inches from where the fork goes through. There was nothing I could do to fix that problem.

my fuji was destroyed by 2 NYC taxi driver ****wads:

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the seat got blasted off the rails, and the rails did some damage to my person. i busted my face a little when my mouth hit the bars; i found a metal flake in my lip six weeks later :eek:

*it's hard to see from the photos, but the frame's a write-off: the rear triangle got mangled.

now that is some ****ing damage. it makes me sad to see a bike ****ed up like that.

Did you get wedged in between two cabs? Good god... that looks -awful-

What the hell did you do to yourself/your bike?!

there's a thread somewhere... early may, in which i posted the day-of-manglage. basically, i was cut off by a cabbie (butthole #1) going for a fare. he cuts me off, and stops short. my options are 1) ram into his bumper and go over the bars into his rear window, or 2) try to get around his right side. option 2 involves traffic, this being First ave. in manhattan, but it shouldn't be a problem. problem is, my left pedal catches his bumper, and i go down. if that was all, it wouldn't have been a big spill. BUT, 2nd cabbie (butthole #2) is following waaay too close and too fast. he hits me pretty much as i hit the pavement, causing most of the damage you see. the police report faulted both cabs. personally, i fault butthole #1 more, but i'm not sure the law does. it wouldn't have happened had he not crossed two lanes and stopped short for a measly fare.

i spent a few hours in the ER (mostly waiting). had a nice laceration in my ass from one of the seat rails, dangerously close to my butthole. i swear, i wore diapers for like two weeks - it didn't want to stop bleeding. i had one tooth chipped (got that one crowned), and another had to be pulled as it was broken far up in the gum. i currently have a funny removable fake, until i go in and have the permanent one installed. dentistry is expensive, lemme tell ya.

i have a deposition sometime soon, my lawyer tells me. his prediction: a win. i got 'lucky' in the sense that i have witnesses, and the buttholes didn't leave the scene. so we'll see how it all works out.

my fuji was destroyed by 2 NYC taxi driver ****wads:

obviously this was before you realized the power of the spaghetti monster.

obviously this was before you realized the power of the spaghetti monster.

yes, the FSM is all-knowing. and it's comforting to know that when i die, there's a stripper factory and a beer volcano waiting in the afterlife. :D

there's a thread somewhere... early may, in which i posted the day-of-manglage. basically, i was cut off by a cabbie (butthole #1) going for a fare. he cuts me off, and stops short. my options are 1) ram into his bumper and go over the bars into his rear window, or 2) try to get around his right side. option 2 involves traffic, this being First ave. in manhattan, but it shouldn't be a problem. problem is, my left pedal catches his bumper, and i go down. if that was all, it wouldn't have been a big spill. BUT, 2nd cabbie (butthole #2) is following waaay too close and too fast. he hits me pretty much as i hit the pavement, causing most of the damage you see. the police report faulted both cabs. personally, i fault butthole #1 more, but i'm not sure the law does. it wouldn't have happened had he not crossed two lanes and stopped short for a measly fare.

i spent a few hours in the ER (mostly waiting). had a nice laceration in my ass from one of the seat rails, dangerously close to my butthole. i swear, i wore diapers for like two weeks - it didn't want to stop bleeding. i had one tooth chipped (got that one crowned), and another had to be pulled as it was broken far up in the gum. i currently have a funny removable fake, until i go in and have the permanent one installed. dentistry is expensive, lemme tell ya.

i have a deposition sometime soon, my lawyer tells me. his prediction: a win. i got 'lucky' in the sense that i have witnesses, and the buttholes didn't leave the scene. so we'll see how it all works out.


jesus. that's really, really ****ty. but i'm glad you're walking and all--it sounds like it could have potentially been worse.

jesus. that's really, really ****ty. but i'm glad you're walking and all--it sounds like it could have potentially been worse.

it most definitely could have been worse. luckily, i'm pretty much fine, and riding plenty.

yes, the FSM is all-knowing. and it's comforting to know that when i die, there's a stripper factory and a beer volcano waiting in the afterlife. :D

If the FSM is all knowing, how come he doesn't know that we need stripper factories and beer volcanos in this life, too? Hmm?

If the FSM is all knowing, how come he doesn't know that we need stripper factories and beer volcanos in this life, too? Hmm?

you need to earn it, my friend. show your allegiance, and ye shall be rewarded. and don't question the FSM. 10 lashes from the noodly appendage ye shall receive!

If something dies from old age/heavy usage, I really don't mind. The worst is impulsive, self-inflicted damage. I stripped the alan wrench hole on my left-side pedal. I'd better learn to like eggbeaters, because that s**t is never coming out.

suzue jr, which (honestly... seems to be a right of passage around here) resulted in the breaking of my balls and the bending of wheel as I bounced off this and that attempting to stop.

cranks! (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=154732)

campy low flange track hub- spokes ripped out
open 4 CD rim - cracked
ti one-off fork (small builder) -snapped in 5 pieces
miyata track track frame=bent and rippled
a year and a half ago.
hit by SUV in bushwick, brooklyn. some lady passed a taxi on double yellow bars into the oncoming lane, through an intersection. i was making a righ turn on to her street's oncoming lane, from her left in that intersection. bike went right into the grill, and i flew onto her winshield and roof, and landed running on the other side.
i was bruised up alot but walking the next day.

i stripped a sovos!
and i broke a crappy topcap for a threadless headset.
and a crappy chainbreaker.
and i almost broke myself on my bike a few times.

campy low flange track hub- spokes ripped out
open 4 CD rim - cracked
ti one-off fork (small builder) -snapped in 5 pieces
miyata track track frame=bent and rippled
a year and a half ago.
hit by SUV in bushwick, brooklyn. some lady passed a taxi on double yellow bars into the oncoming lane, through an intersection. i was making a righ turn on to her street's oncoming lane, from her left in that intersection. bike went right into the grill, and i flew onto her winshield and roof, and landed running on the other side.
i was bruised up alot but walking the next day.

*hands trackasaurus the trophy ...*

... wow.

although I was already missing (had broken) 6 spokes on my 36 holer....I broke 4 spokes hitting a pothole in the rain the other day : ( rebuilding front wheel soon...luckily someone hit me off with a loaner

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That's a serious bend. I've bent and sheared crank spindles, but never a crank arm. I wish I had a picture of the last crank spindle I broke. It was about a hair's width from flaying my calf.

Tommasini frame at the headtube
Faggin frame at seatstay tie x 2 and at the dropout
A pedicab frame (multiple cracks due to pulling too many fatasses)
Like 5 1/8th inch chains while pedicabbing
Too many spokes to count on the pedicab
One SRAM chain on a fixie
Selle Italia Pro-link saddle at the rails - Ti rails.
Selle Italia Turbo at the plastic
Mavic touring rim - cracked in a bunch of spots (my fault sorta)
Cheapo ally stem - totally cracked
2 pairs of SPD pedals
A cheapo ally seatpost
ally chainring bolts
Too many cheap chainwhips

I think there's some more....can't remember right now.

A pedicab frame (multiple cracks due to pulling too many fatasses)



Hahahaaaa!

If something dies from old age/heavy usage, I really don't mind. The worst is impulsive, self-inflicted damage. I stripped the alan wrench hole on my left-side pedal. I'd better learn to like eggbeaters, because that s**t is never coming out.


eggbeaters rocketh. however if you are ever inclinced, a pedal wrench will take them off too.

15mm?

fnb- hope you get your expenses paid, at least.

when i first started riding fixed, i noticed that i was missing a chainring bolt, so the next morning i decided to go to the bike shop and replace it. i got there before it opened, so i decided to ride around for a bit. while doing so, i lost another bolt, and then while i was riding down a big hill on 4th ave, i tried to stop and basically ripped my chainring off the crank and wrapped it around the bottom bracket. i avoided going over the bars by laying the bike down, and i had to take the entire chainring off before i could even wheel the bike 2 miles back to my apartment. lesson learned.