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...schadenfreude. It's everywhere now. Maybe it always was ?

Yes, you did!

...and you may be a wealthy Pirate, but not an Aquaman.....

If'n you wear regular shoes because your cheap bike doesn't have fancy clipless pedals, then the walk home is less sad, as opposed to knowing every clomp clomp is destroying your cleats bit by bit.

Hate to say it but the fellow has a 1st world problem. If you can afford to buy a $8,000.00+ bike then you also buy the bust if something goes wrong. A derailleur smashing into the rear wheel of a $100 Walmart bike causes the same damage, maybe even less, but you're only out $100 bucks.

If that bike was a stretch (financially) for the rider, then, well, he learned a hard lesson. If it was like buying a pack of gum, then he can go out and buy another $,8,000.00 bike.

I don't get this at all. Could the OP clarify the point of his?

BINGO....some here simply seems to slow on the uptake and or too rigid in thinking to fully enjoy the public forum....
but yes.....it was sad and funny as it waz not me...the bike was glorious My heart broke as he was mid center of GWB heading to NJ. duck walking in fancy cycling shoes.
Simple concept to understand.

I think the take-away is to always carry your phone so you can call an Uber.

I thought this was going to be about a kid's ghost bike, not some Fred with a broken mid-life crisis. Whatever.

That first post was in the voice of Dale? Nope.

Poor Johnny Depp…

Your story was a badly-told dud, and it's not because people were too slow. I wouldn't say it if your response hadn't been this gratuitous insult.

Next time go full pirate voice, might make the not very poignant story a more entertaining read.

Thank you translation section of BikeForums!

Or buy a cheap bike from Walmart and it will already be broken for you.

More like Boomhauer.

She so pretty..
crazy but pretty.

This is so sad to hear!

It is a universal sadness and one shared by many. Much like the slow and deliberate pain from a tap to the nuts...….this pain is universally shared an understood by all men.
When a upper middle class gentleman in full cycling kit and pushing a new full carbon Italian racing bike with the appropriate Italian bling ( campy) is forced to walk because of damage to "said" bike..
This my friends.....this is a deep long standing type of pain, for some "traumatic pain" this my friends will linger , linger like the wet dirty inside of one's bib after a grueling 100 mile gravel ride.
Peace out.

Look at that, you discovered full sentences again!

Pretty crazy.

Kind of flipped from underwritten to overwritten, if you ask me. Not sure if this is a tragedy misfire or a comedy misfire.

Gotta say, I'm not going to assume someone riding the challenging terrain of the GWB on an $8000 bike is "middle class".

I once witnessed a Ferrari (512? TR?) get t-boned when the guy tried to slip across 3 lanes of traffic waiting for a light. Yep the third lane was still moving. It's always fun when you can laugh at and feel superior to richer folks!

dont hate the wealthy....but yes tis fun to see fancy things go boom.

I still love that 2018 TireRack commercial, where the guy drives into the parking ramp with his bike on a roof rack. The best part is when the girl coming out of out of the ramp looks over and says, “want to go for a bike ride”, her laughter as she drives off is priceless. Sorry, tried to find a copy I could post, but failed, hopefully someone else can show me up on that.
The biker in the commercial, looked so sad picking up his crumpled ride behind his car.
Tim

... reads like a dylan song gone wrong > romance in Durango , but it's still Dylan

This in not an airport. You didn’t need to announce your departure.