hey guys, can explain a weird thing that happened to me this arvo.
I was riding home from uni, going uphill, then I dunno what really happened but it felt like the rear wheel locked up so I went smack into the stem. I had a quick check of the bike as I was standing there, it had changed up a few gears (rear wheel) and nothing was bent. Im pretty sure I didnt shift up.
Anyway the bike was fine to ride home. But what happened?

could be the hub body starting to crap itself....??
is it old?

That sounds like the exact same reaction when I get chain suck on my Roubaix. That only happens changing from the big chainring to the small though.

When you started riding again, did it stay in the same gear it was in, or go back down two?

Maybe a small dog ran into your chain?

Check out https://www.tourdekids.org.au
We have a couple of riders....

the CCO MTB race is now the grade yourself in to A, B, C or D. Check out the time of C grade winner and DH man Brock Newling compared to the other riders and A grade.

https://www.ccomtb.org.au/Results/200...1%20050206.xls

we do?

Is it Mike Hunt and Dick Hunt? ROFLMAO

fark! is he sponsored by Amgen? i hope they move him up to B grade for this weekend! either way it looks like ill be finishing off the podium this race. havent been there for ages and not knowing the track v well is not going to help me in any regards.

They should ban that burgler.

What a sand bagger!

well he is a DH'er, to be fair, he probably hardly ever races XC and just entered for fun, ended up whipping the field. Bloody quick though, A grade pace on those 2 laps !!

Im guessing fairly old, but I have recently pulled it apart cleaned, noticed there wasnt much wear put it back on the bike.

It stayed the gears up. I think mainly because the lever did change position and Im sure I didnt touch it before hand.

Sure your brain didn't flip out of gear for a second?

I'm not much into violence, but this morning I found that here's nothing more satisfying than whacking the driver side window with you pump's valve locking mechanism. Gives off a really sharp and loud "wake up to yourself or the next noise you hear might be breaking glass" sound.

so what dastardly act of driver incomptence prompted that departure from your normal zen like state?

What you doing on the drivers side in the first place?

Just one guy's inability to cope with a cyclist being on the road coupled with an affinity for the hand-on-horn problem solving technique (my pet peeve). So me, not being in a hurry, obliged by slowing down to under 10kmh and watched myriads of other cagers happily fly on past in the other two lanes. More hand on horn, coupled with futile shouting of some sort. He STFU when he met mr pump at the red light 50m up the road.

Can't wait for this afternoon's edition...

i think it's funny that drivers think that 'hand on horn' is going to make you faster or get out of the way. i slow down and make sure the definitly can't get by.

Thing was there was plenty of time and space for him to go around me safely when he first caught up. But not for long. A seemingly endless torrent of traffic emerged from nowhere, like a very surreal version of karma out of control. I thought it was pretty funny at the time.

thats what im trying to decide. it ws weird

jock - maybe a "honk if you're horny" sticker on the back of your bike may stop them blasting you so much?

maybee it was jock riding past with his frame pump!

Not good news for Gary Niewand...

https://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...020058687.html

Guys, what's the official rule of going the the front of stopped traffic at a red light? I always do that if the light isn't going to change before I get there, that way ever driver knows I'm there and has to go around me.

Last week I went to the front and made obvious jestures that I was turning right, and when the green arrow went, this guy flys past me screming his head off.

I flipped him the bird and that was that.

It's perfectly legal doing that, yeah? I mean, I've been to intersections where the bike lane leads up to the stop lights, and right accross the road at the front is a box with a white bike rider sprayed on it, indicating to me that that's what you're supposed to do.

I'm a road rules ****** - my rule is 'No harm no foul' usually when it comes to riding on the road (That's what happens when you're an inner city boffin).

Does anyone know what the official rule is? Was this guy just pissed that he didn't get laid the previous night or wot?

first q? was there a tram involved? Us NSW'ers get confused with that

On a green arrow, hell yeah, I'd do that. If it was a green light only and you had to give way to oncoming cars, I'd probably just wait at the back of the line so the cars could go straight ahead without me blocking them but if you have a green arrow then go for it. I believe in NSW you are allowed to go ahead of the line in any situation like that.

RTA Quote:
"Cyclists also have some special rights, which include:
Riding two abreast, no more than 1.5 m apart

........Travelling to the front of a line of traffic on the left hand side of the stopped vehicles...........

Travelling in Bus Lanes and Transit Lanes. However, cyclists cannot travel in Bus Only Lanes
Travelling on the footpath where indicated by signage
Cycling on the footpath if the cyclist is less than 12 years old. An adult, who is riding in a supervisory capacity of a cyclist less than 12 years old, may also ride with the young cyclist on the footpath
Turning right from the left hand lane of a multi-lane roundabout with the proviso the cyclists must give way to exiting traffic."

fark. mate had 2 bikes stolen this morning from his house scum.