
A pothole ate my bike!
Riding downtown, paying attention to the traffic, I didn't watch the road close enough... I look down and there's this humongous bike-eating pothole right in front of me! I yanked up on the handlebars and got the front wheel over it, but I NAILED it with the back... hard enough to throw one of my panniers into the street.
A bus was nice enough to stop and let me retrieve the pannier, but sure enough, when I got back on the bike.... thump..... thump.... thump.
That wheel is toast. Bent the rim pretty good. Looks like I'll be throwing the wheel off my old Azuki on there. *sighs* I'll be shopping for TWO wheels, now... one for the mountain bike and one for the road bike.