Originally Posted by
SuperDave
The only thing I've ever lost off the bike was....the two bottom bolts of my rack due to my own inattentiveness to appropriate routine maintenance. That led to an "OMFG card-in-the-spokes on steroids" moment at 25mph on a downhill when the bracket got into the cassette.
Fortunately, the bracket contacted the cassette ahead of the rotation rather than behind; the alternative might have been....eventful. They must have gone nearly simultaneously. Otherwise, the one loose bracket would have alerted me with its' rattle against the boss.
oh yeah, I lost the bolt holding my downtube shift lever on. at the beginning of one commute (shifting got real sloppy on the way in, but didn't bother investigating it and then on the first or second shift on the way home the lever fell off and was dangling by the cable. Since it was my right lever and I ride a triple, I rode home on a 3 speed.
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Bikes: 1996 Eddy Merckx Titanium EX, 1989/90 Colnago Super(issimo?) Piu(?), 1990 Concorde Aquila(hit by car while riding), others in build queue "when I get the time"