Post your worn out components/bike!
 

Since there are so many new bike threads, why not a thread dedicated to trashed/worn out components and bikes? :thumb:

On my Raliegh Revenio 2.0 I have gone through a pair of tires, a chain, saddle, drop bars, it also has 2148.8 miles on it in ten months.

somehow rode 8mi home on this before i noticed it was cracked. (hit pot hole and flatted then was fine with new tube)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps409ed25a.jpg

Broke a fairly new cog a few months ago.

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/o...1A069AAE1B.jpg

I broke a stem and a fork. The fork doesn't look too bad in the picture, but you can tell it's broken if you squeeze on it.

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x.../stemcrack.jpg

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...hulo/Fork3.jpg

There's more, but those are the ones I have pictures of. I have an old Selle San Marco saddle I should take a picture of. I put many years and miles on that saddle and it shows.

Bend it back, sand smooth, good-to-go.

Yep. It isn't cracked... merely slightly separated where the rim connects. A little twisting, truing, and light-sanding and the wheel will be like new.

Me after 90 miles in the Texas Heat with the last 15 miles being all up.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=422947

It's not new anymore :p

Sometimes, you gotta hold back the watts, dude.

Broke the bottom clamp on my Campagnolo titanium seatpost.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423397

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423399

Didn't figure out why I was so uncomfortable until after finishing the ride and noticing my saddle was not in a normal position
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423398

I got my money's worth out of my 1996 Campagnolo Chorus 8 speed levers upgraded to 9 cogs around 2000. After a few crashes riding on ice in winter, too many G-spring and carrier replacements to count, a new thumb spring or two, and new front spring I broke the right lever ratchet pawl / shift lever return spring with that assembly discontinued.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423400
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=423401
Still got $45 selling the levers for parts on ebay.

I broke the front clamp bolt on the Velo Orange part I bought as a replacement after just 3415 miles in 7 months.

This was especially ludicrous because

1. I only weighed 150 pounds when it broke and the 180 when I got it was far from excessive.

2. I actually torqued the clamp bolts to spec using my Stahlwille split-beam torque wrench used for just a few fasteners since being calibrated. +/- 4% on a factory calibration over the full-scale, although Transcat may have done better with +/- 1% achievable.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=425976

Had to finish the last three miles of my ride standing with saddle in one jersey pocket (it fell out nose first, but stayed when I put it back wide end on the bottom) and clamp parts in another.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=425977

Wore out my last genuine Campagnolo rear shift cable in just 2500 miles. Shifting to smaller cogs was getting sluggish, so I pulled the brake hood, freed the rear housing from its stop, and poked the end out of the shifter where I noted one strand unraveling. After getting it out and flexing I noticed a bunch were broken.

This seems to be a recurring problem with either Ultrashift levers (the housing now enters flat with the cable making a sharp 90 degree bend around a guide, not at an angle with much of the bending done in the cable housing beneath the bar tape) or 2010 vintage Campagnolo inner cables.

I run tight cassettes and shift like I have ADHD to maintain a metronomic cadence, although that still seems excessive at half the life I got with my old 8/9 speed levers.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=425986

A small sample. Leftovers from racing in the 1980s

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/a...0101152107.jpg

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/a...0101152105.jpg

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/a...0101152104.jpg

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/a...101152103a.jpg

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/a...0101152103.jpg

JB Weld?

Red RD. 8 years, 40k miles, and a gazillion shifts.


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18...pslb8fqtoq.jpg

I probably got my money's worth.