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What did you break in '08?

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Old 01-01-09, 01:58 PM
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Front derailleur. Learned the hard way it was the wrong setup for my triple.
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2 sets of bars, a wheelset, rear triangle on a frame, a fork, bottom bracket, chainring

i think thats all
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Originally Posted by madeinjpn
Frame: Panasonic Conversion
Fork: no name alloy
Front Wheel: Mavic Helium
Nitto stem


And my pride.
At least you didn't take a core sample of your abdomen with those uncapped bars.
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Old 01-02-09, 05:50 PM
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set of toe clips
front veep
dent in top tube
dent on downtube
2 sets of pedals
bent rear hub flange
headset
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Old 01-02-09, 06:25 PM
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broke

numerous tubes, 1 rear tire, 1 pedal (R), 1 crankarm (L)
that's all, surprisingly
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Old 01-02-09, 06:47 PM
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My Bianchi I let my buddy use for a beer run and he wrecked it,causing a crack at the seat tube/top tube weld.What sucks is it was within a week after painting and rebuilding it.



And a close up of the paint....
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damn, cool paint
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that is a real bummer Boozy.

-A bridgstone road frame, a shimano 600/MA40 rear wheel and a shimano 600 derailleur. I didn't break it though, a pickup truck did.
-a pedal spindle
-a toeclip bolt
-a dura-ace 7700 bottom bracket (worst bottom bracket I've ever used or seen)
-1 spoke nipple (stupid alloy)
-couple tires
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Yeah,thanks guys. Right now Imtrying to figure out if I wanna paint my Kilo that color.
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My Shoulder.
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Old 01-02-09, 09:00 PM
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- 5600 miles on one bike (personal mileage record) - I got close to 5700 before New Years. That was counting since April when I built my IRO up.
- My personal speed record on a bike (39.5mph - on my fixed this time)
- 5 tyres.
- LS crank arm on a splined crank bike (el-cheapo Bianchi from the 70s/80s) that I ran fixed last winter. It didn't cope with the torque/stress much over 300 miles.
- A couple of tubes, most aren't "broken" but are in for repair - some did actually fail (valve breakage, etc.)
- Stainless steel brake cable, replaced with a teflon coated one.
- Set of MKS chain tensioners.
- I had to replace my chainring and cog, utlimately meaning I had to replace my rear wheel due to my old 3/32 17T cog being forcibly stuck on the hub.

- My heart. In a particularly spectacular way, yay!

Do pads count? I guess that's just wear 'n' tear.
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Old 01-02-09, 09:11 PM
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I bent a front tire when i took a spill. I wasn't on my fixed though.
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Originally Posted by BoozyMcliverRot
My Bianchi I let my buddy use for a beer run and he wrecked it,causing a crack at the seat tube/top tube weld.What sucks is it was within a week after painting and rebuilding it.



And a close up of the paint....

Is that the Duplicolor Mirage Ice paint? I messed around with a few of their color-shifting sets. Pretty trick stuff!

Well, whatever it it is, it came out nice!
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Old 01-02-09, 10:05 PM
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Duplicolor Clear Effex over black base coat.

https://www.duplicolor.com/products/effex.html

Ive used the magenta/gold Mirage on my old Schwinn Homegrown I converted to SS though.
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I cracked my pedals and part of my bottom bracket
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Old 01-02-09, 11:26 PM
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once i caused the plates on the surface of earth to shift when i did a wicked awesome skidz. other than that i aint broke ****.
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Old 01-03-09, 12:21 PM
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fixxiez dont have breaks!!!!
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pyramid flip pedals(half of pedal w/ cage, other half for spd) spindle broke.
numerous tubes
1 old Mavic Rim (courtesy of young kid at bike shop) While filling the tire up the
tube/tire/rim exploded in a fantastic BLAM!
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Originally Posted by ianjk
At least you didn't take a core sample of your abdomen with those uncapped bars.
I had bar endzz. They flew off.
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Old 01-04-09, 12:20 AM
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my bottom bracket decided to crap out today so
i need to replace that now.

anyone know what size a 2001
bianchi pista bb is? , all i know is it is Italian threaded
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Old 01-04-09, 12:50 AM
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three eggbeater pedals... 2 in one race... and somehow a nice set of gloves ended up in the dryer... anyone have a 3 year old in need of some biking gloves?

buuuuut... i switched to ss in 2008 and have not broken a derailleur since... I'm also broke my record for the longest streak I've ever had without a flat... 6 months and counting with no flats on the commuter OR the mtb. (**knock on wood**)
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Old 01-04-09, 12:37 PM
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Wow, I rode and raced all year, and all I broke was:
The silver dustcover on the front of an Ultegra left STI.
The spring on a 1990 600 aero front brake.
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some cheap christophe straps (do not recommend), an ale toe clip (i since made the switch to soma quad gates), several tubes (naturally), a chainring bolt (how i don't know), and stripped the lockring thread on a formula hub (d'oh!).. maybe some other stuff i forgot about
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steel dropout inserts. 4 spokes (2 leading 2 trailing in rear and im 200lbs lols). stripped a hub. stripped the puller threads on my crank arm. lockon grips. pedal.

and 1 spoke on my dirtjump bike
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A pedal (cheap plastic "track pedal" that came with the bike, lasted about a week and a half)
Mangled my seat in a crash, but was pretty glad I took most of the damage and my bike was ok
A helmet from goin sideways over the bars (see above)

Not much else. I'm sure I ruined some part or other working on my bike without bothering to learn the correct way to do it but whatever it was escapes me right now.
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