Originally Posted by
K.Katso
Did you not stop when you realized that the chain had dropped?
Originally Posted by
HOWSER
Good God, how long did you keep peddling after the drop?
About 200 miles, uphill, on an average 73% grade. If you stop pedaling just because a chain dropped, a wheel cracked or your heart stopped beating, you need to HTFU!
Originally Posted by
rm -rf
Ouch! Strange that it was during a shift to the big chain ring.
... He could pedal all day, but nothing more would happen, since the chain was off the ring. Must have had to pry it out of there, but that's still a lot of damage.
It's often best to try to pull it out radially and work from both ends, instead of yanking on one end of the chain to get it out.
If it's this stuck, I'd remove the crankset to free the chain. (But probably wouldn't consider it until I'd done a bunch of damage first, and that's not an easy field repair.)
It does seem that the chain may have dropped more than once...
Spot on! It was the second time the chain dropped in the last month, both of times it got stuck there. When it dropped going to the big chain ring, I shifted back to the small one and tried to gentle peddle to bring it back. at that point I couldn't pedal after a revolution or two and I had to pull off and try to unstuck it.
It was really jammed there, so I managed to unstock the bottom first and put it half length of the chain ring again and thought back pedaling would pull the chain back in place. Nope... got even more stuck.
At that point I realized 3 things:
- It would be very easy if I removed crankset, but I didn't have the giant ass Allen required for GXP crank arms.
- If it went in, it can come out
- Hulk, Smash!!!!
#3 probably got the work done, but the chain came out twisted 45 degrees and I ended up having to call Uber to take me back home.
Originally Posted by
noodle soup
That is no big deal to repair. What frame is it?
I know it can be repaired, but it seems like a good excuse to just build a new one. There are great deals on frames on ebay and craigs list, instead of putting $300+ on a repair, may be I should get another frame.