JB, click here

ok, I've been mulling over this for a day, but i want the EXACT definition

is it that they sprint as if they're scared to break their delicate cranks?

think "glass jaw"

crystal cranks means no go when the going gets really tough. No ticker.

Me! :)

Saw this quote on the beeb and it made me chuckle:

If you take the scrum out of the equation, we played well.
Former Australia coach Eddie Jones, defending the Wallabies' defeat by England.

If you take the assassination out of the equation, the President and Mrs Kennedy quite enjoyed the drive from Dallas to the airport.
Mike Carlton (Australian broadcaster) disagrees.

How was the play, Mrs. Lincoln...

OK that's enough now. Back to good ol Aussie crap and the occaisional cycling tidbit...

Went for my first sunrise training ride on the weekend. Looked forward to cooler conditions, no traffic, and no wind. Had my mandatory 7 hours of sleep, then got up, had some fruit and crap for breakfast and set out. I wanted cooler, but fark, I can't remember being colder in my life. And even though I got enough sleep, still felt tired as. So combine that with the cold I was just numb all over and felt totally off. To make metters worse, as soon as the sun popped up, so did the wind. What's with all the talk of still early mornings. Load of cr@p I say.

Anyway, the point of my whinge. Probably 30 minutes into my slog from hell while my body is feeling like I borrowed it from some herroin smacktard, my bike did something that was a first for it. Changing from the big ring to the small, it chainsucked. Well it felt like a chainsuck as the pedals locked tight. So backpedalled, stopped and looked down only to see no damage or scuffs near the rings. So tipped the bike over to find a hellacious hack out of the underside of the chainstay about a deraileurs swing away from the rear.

Anyway, I can't really tell if its just a bad hack in the surface of the finish/resin or if it's cut through some carbon. I'll take it around to the bike shop to give them a look at it when I get some time, but finding that time is impossible with work and christmas and tomorrows bludy colonoscopy (this week sucks).

So what you dudes rekon? All the doom and gloom merchants right about a CF scratch making bikes death machines? How close to zero would my chances be of getting a new frame if the hack is too bad?

Thanks! I e mailed in inquiry. JB

We need to start a CF failure thread. Truly.

can you get us a picture?

Probably not until the weekend. I'll throw one up then for *****s and giggles. It might be okay this time around. If it does the same thing again though it'll be gonners next time for sure.

So anyone got any idea about why a bike would do something funky with it's chain all of a sudden when it's been a model citizen before hand? It'd been lubed that morning. It's not that long since I last cleaned it so it's not gunked up. The rear derailleur was in fairly good adjustment although it could have been tweaked a little to get into easier gears a little easier. Can sticking links make the chain do crazy stuff? I might need to check them. Wonder whether that damn removable link played a part?

So, um, what caused the gash? Was it chainsuck or something else?

I perodically get enquiries along the lines of 'can you fix carbon?'. Makes you wonder how many of those frame are currently landfill.

I had a rear wheel lock-up once that was caused by one of the drive pawls in the freewheel snapping off, so that could be a possibility, but that didn't cause any damage to the frame. Does sound like chainsuck to me though, can't think of what else it could possibly be.

See post #485

FWIW I think sticking links can cause this, my rear swingarm on the MTB has some nice gouges!
Is your damn removable link on the right way? some of them are directional..!

I'm not sure if the actual chain or the deraileur caused the actualy gash. But there's some little hacks further up so it looks like it was the line of the chain.

I continued on and it's didn't do anything else for the 110 km it took to finish the ride so it was definitly strange.


Yeah, mines a directional sucker. As for if I've got it on the right way, I hope so. I threw the instructions to it out a long time ago. Pretty sure it's right though.

1 week of no training and I'm back to useless!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

There is no hiding from a lack of base miles & fitness, not even on the track :(

I'm off for a sulk!

is your Mum still here? :p

I'll join you. I just started back on base and my legs are totally shattered. Can't believe how bad my climbing has gotten in just 3 months :eek: I hate specific training :(

New game, just out!

http://www.plus613.com:81/21500/www_...om_cronps2.jpg

Saccy, Climbo, and whoever else lurves the plastic - can you please post some contributions in The carbon fibre failure thread.

LOL

i'll try, but I've had no carbon bike myself, seen a few carbon bits break, that's about all.

Who broke the CF seat post a while ago?

[edit] and who had the work mate with the broken carbon fork?

i broke a CF seatpost on a MTB 1st time id ever used one, it was a test bike though so it had probalby ben mistrated badly . i must have a fat ass :(

speaking of well indowed rear ends, anyone poked a head into the training and nutrition sub forum? now thats a strange and scary place....