Originally Posted by
logdrum
The other weird thing is that your wheel broke a spoke and that is not even much a pothole. I really cannot imagine this to be the source of both failures.
After I read this I went back and reanalyzed the wheel situation and took a closer look at the spoke. What appears to have happened is that the spoke pulled out of the hub. The spoke is fine, the hub not so much. Photos of this are included. Thanks for mentioning that.
Originally Posted by
BengeBoy
Agree with you all - that is not a "pothole," that's a "blemish."
To the OP...this is the way you described the sequence of events: "I hit it (the pothole) and the frame cracked, I endoed and slid..."
Recognizing that things happen quickly in a wreck, is there any possibility that the pothole caused you to go down, and the frame gave way when you went down? Not doubting your story (you were there, I wasn't!) but it can be hard to reconstruct things that happen in a split second, and am just wondering if you've given that some thought.
Indeed I have. The reason I believe the crash unfolded the way I recounted is because I too have gone over patches of road rougher than this without problems. I also remember hearing the crack and then being terribly disoriented. Lastly, I mountain bike and have never had a problem maintaining control of my bike (mountain vs road biking my not be the same, but the balance control from mtb definitely carries over). Therefore, I find it unlikely, but far from impossible, that something this small could send me out of control and instead that the failure caused the crash.