Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - What did you break in '08?

Was a pretty good year. Nothing major :)

2 forks, (broke fork end on one and bent the other).
1 Rim + 1 spoke (trials bike, technically both a fixed gear (fixed hub) and ss (freewheel on crank)).
1 Chainring (remember to check your stack bolts more than once a season).

Hm...

2 frames (pista concept, IRO BFSSFG)
1 Pista Concept carbon fork -- rode over a parking lot separator in pitch black
1 left FSA Carbon Pro crankarm
1 Selle Rolls saddle (jean stains + cleaner ruined the suede, plus rips all over)
A few pairs of Ourys ;)

A spoke. A carbon post. A saddle. My heart.

1 chain
1 rim bent

taco'd rim - truck ran over my rear wheel in an accident.

Don't we have a thread for this?

My rear hub (old Maillard Helicomatic).

uh
nothing

your mom:roflmao2:

Two stripped hubs (related incident), nitto olympiade bars, some spokes, and a so far non-fatal top tube dent.

a rear tire from a few hours of jackassery.

Collarbone. Still not running because of it.

A few hearts.

a nipple

a couple tools

thats about it for now

Just blew two tires (one front, one rear), two crank bolts, and a seat collar binder bolt.

1 frame, 1 front wheel, 1 fork, spokes on 2 wheel builds and like 8 rear tires/3 toe clips

bonus: a front deep v on phil wood stolen

Zipp 303 carbon rim and several sets of tires.

jeez some of y'all break a LOT.

on my bike 10-13 hrs a day.
i broke:
-a toestrap
-2 or 3 mks toeclips
-a lot of tubes
-a nextel 2-way (rain)

that is all.

Nothing broke on my ss or fg bikes but I broke a rib when I got doored and of course I broke my piggy bank buying all my bikes and parts.:D

Two randos

A rim, and scraped up a good leather jacket and shattered the front screen on my cell phone during a nasty 20 mph wreck.

my own personal record for the least amount of sex in a year. 2008 sucked for me.

Raleigh Rush Hour frame in an accident with a mini-van, and the bars, fork, and front wheel that were on it at the time.

Frame: Panasonic Conversion
Fork: no name alloy
Front Wheel: Mavic Helium
Nitto stem
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t39/Yankowxc/1002081625a.jpg

And my pride.

Front derailleur. Learned the hard way it was the wrong setup for my triple.

2 sets of bars, a wheelset, rear triangle on a frame, a fork, bottom bracket, chainring

i think thats all

Frame: Panasonic Conversion
Fork: no name alloy
Front Wheel: Mavic Helium
Nitto stem
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t39/Yankowxc/1002081625a.jpg

And my pride.

At least you didn't take a core sample of your abdomen with those uncapped bars.

set of toe clips
front veep
dent in top tube
dent on downtube
2 sets of pedals
bent rear hub flange
headset

numerous tubes, 1 rear tire, 1 pedal (R), 1 crankarm (L)
that's all, surprisingly

My Bianchi I let my buddy use for a beer run and he wrecked it,causing a crack at the seat tube/top tube weld.What sucks is it was within a week after painting and rebuilding it.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/boozymcliverrot/DSC00889.jpg

And a close up of the paint....
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/boozymcliverrot/DSC00888.jpg

damn, cool paint

that is a real bummer Boozy.

-A bridgstone road frame, a shimano 600/MA40 rear wheel and a shimano 600 derailleur. I didn't break it though, a pickup truck did.
-a pedal spindle
-a toeclip bolt
-a dura-ace 7700 bottom bracket (worst bottom bracket I've ever used or seen)
-1 spoke nipple (stupid alloy)
-couple tires

Yeah,thanks guys. Right now Imtrying to figure out if I wanna paint my Kilo that color.

My Shoulder.
http://a805.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/m_77d7931f4cc3a80ed417c918e56085dc.jpg

- 5600 miles on one bike (personal mileage record) - I got close to 5700 before New Years. That was counting since April when I built my IRO up.
- My personal speed record on a bike (39.5mph - on my fixed this time)
- 5 tyres.
- LS crank arm on a splined crank bike (el-cheapo Bianchi from the 70s/80s) that I ran fixed last winter. It didn't cope with the torque/stress much over 300 miles.
- A couple of tubes, most aren't "broken" but are in for repair - some did actually fail (valve breakage, etc.)
- Stainless steel brake cable, replaced with a teflon coated one.
- Set of MKS chain tensioners.
- I had to replace my chainring and cog, utlimately meaning I had to replace my rear wheel due to my old 3/32 17T cog being forcibly stuck on the hub.

- My heart. In a particularly spectacular way, yay!

Do pads count? I guess that's just wear 'n' tear.

I bent a front tire when i took a spill. I wasn't on my fixed though.

My Bianchi I let my buddy use for a beer run and he wrecked it,causing a crack at the seat tube/top tube weld.What sucks is it was within a week after painting and rebuilding it.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/boozymcliverrot/DSC00889.jpg

And a close up of the paint....
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/boozymcliverrot/DSC00888.jpg


Is that the Duplicolor Mirage Ice paint? I messed around with a few of their color-shifting sets. Pretty trick stuff!

Well, whatever it it is, it came out nice!

Duplicolor Clear Effex over black base coat.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/effex.html

Ive used the magenta/gold Mirage on my old Schwinn Homegrown I converted to SS though.

I cracked my pedals and part of my bottom bracket

once i caused the plates on the surface of earth to shift when i did a wicked awesome skidz. other than that i aint broke ****.

fixxiez dont have breaks!!!!

pyramid flip pedals(half of pedal w/ cage, other half for spd) spindle broke.
numerous tubes
1 old Mavic Rim (courtesy of young kid at bike shop) While filling the tire up the
tube/tire/rim exploded in a fantastic BLAM!

At least you didn't take a core sample of your abdomen with those uncapped bars.

I had bar endzz. They flew off.

my bottom bracket decided to crap out today so
i need to replace that now.

anyone know what size a 2001
bianchi pista bb is? , all i know is it is Italian threaded

three eggbeater pedals... 2 in one race:(... and somehow a nice set of gloves ended up in the dryer... anyone have a 3 year old in need of some biking gloves?

buuuuut... i switched to ss in 2008 and have not broken a derailleur since... I'm also broke my record for the longest streak I've ever had without a flat... 6 months and counting with no flats on the commuter OR the mtb. (**knock on wood**)

Wow, I rode and raced all year, and all I broke was:
The silver dustcover on the front of an Ultegra left STI.
The spring on a 1990 600 aero front brake.

some cheap christophe straps (do not recommend), an ale toe clip (i since made the switch to soma quad gates), several tubes (naturally), a chainring bolt (how i don't know), and stripped the lockring thread on a formula hub (d'oh!).. maybe some other stuff i forgot about

steel dropout inserts. 4 spokes (2 leading 2 trailing in rear and im 200lbs lols). stripped a hub. stripped the puller threads on my crank arm. lockon grips. pedal.

and 1 spoke on my dirtjump bike

A pedal (cheap plastic "track pedal" that came with the bike, lasted about a week and a half)
Mangled my seat in a crash, but was pretty glad I took most of the damage and my bike was ok
A helmet from goin sideways over the bars (see above)

Not much else. I'm sure I ruined some part or other working on my bike without bothering to learn the correct way to do it but whatever it was escapes me right now.