[Closed] Have You Broken Many Bike Parts?

Yeah I break things.

My frame this weekend for example. Gutted

Been riding 18ish years and if I'm brutally honest, while touching wood, I genuinely can't remember breaking much beyond repair, apart from when I've fitted the wrong thing or been a bit hamfisted in the fitting process.

A cooked rear disk (according to the lbs, I'm not so sure)
A bent rear mech cage (replaced by lbs, reckon it could have been fixed)
Snapped 1 chain (using 9 speed on 7 speed rings)
Steerer snapping at the crown (cheap RSTs, 15 years ago...)

2013 was my 'best' year for breakages (not including bearings/bushings):
5 mechs (X0, XT, 3x Zee) including one lasting half a ride
13 torn tires, none lasted more than a month (best was 2 in one ride).

I'm 9 stone, my 13 stone mate got through several wheelsets, 2 frames and almost double the number of tires.
I haven't raced much since 😥

Op - where and what are you riding?

I'm a big lad, but more often than not wear stuff out. In 20 years of biking I have chewed maybe three mechs, a rear wheel and a couple of seatposts. I should add a dodgy designed Orange ST4, multiple times, but that was a known duff chainstay issue.

In over 20 years not much really.

One frame.
Bent a couple of mechs but straightened them back up.
Gashed one tyre.
Broke a spoke or two.

Went through a spate of knackering square taper BBs back in the day somehow?

I've worn stuff out but never had a failure as such, I did rip a tyre once, it still held pressure but I renewed it as I wasn't confident with it any more.

I'm 15 stone, and not very skilled.. Maybe you need to work on your technique?

Spokes, wheels, mechs/hangers, pedals, myself. Standard

Pinged some spokes, bent a couple of mechs, snapped a couple of chains bent one fork, dented a couple of frames, but not Damaged beyond use in about 25 years of MTBing...

Dare I say it OP you sound like you might need to learn a little more finesse, snapped chainstays, axle, mullered mechs and a cracked brake piston (?) suggest you are a bit "point and plough" than a line picker...

IMO, YMMV, etc, etc....

Last 12 months

A seat stay
Two freehubs
A dropper post
My elbow

Not bad all in.

Oh and a mech hanger.

Had a puncture once..

Spesh rovals to be expected, Spesh chain stays? Famous for it.
Pf30 yep easy
Proii bearings not as common
Mech? Sometimes down to luck otherwise technique.

2 mechs
1 chain
1 xt brake lever
Too many tubless Tyres
1 set of pikes
1 rim
Spokes
Bearings

My toothbrushes tend to last longer than my rear wheels

XT rear mech and Stiffee hanger but at least my frame was ok.
Hit a rock at Afan '03.

Broke a syncros stem and s magic rim on a Zaskar '01.

Broken 4 helmets from head plants... My kids will be born dizzy.

Im riding everything in South Wales as live mid way between Afan and BPW. Ride places like machen, wyllie, castle coch/garth etc.. as well as the usual trail centres when the weather is bad.

I ride a large 2014 26" Orange Alpine

never as much as I'd have thought. When I was racing I often broke drivetrain parts but moved up to XT and that lessened. In fact I broke so many LX mechs one year it really did make me buy more expensive gear, buy cheap buy twice(or more).

Have You Broken Many Bike Parts?

I used to break stuff all the time when I was new to it, but then stuff wasn't so tough back then and I was riding cheaper bikes than now.

I'm slowly replacing the spokes on my back wheel as they snap 1 or 2 at a time every few weeks, given the current rate that my LBS charges to replace a spoke and retrue a wheel it's going to cost me £432 to replace all the spokes over the next 18 months.

I destroyed 4 fancy and bloody expensive X9 derailleurs in 3 days in the Alps once before I noticed the bike shop had fitted another punters chain after the first one broke so every time I went full travel the chain would snap them.

Cracked a chainstay on my Enduro, blew up a DHX air shock, cracked the lowers on a set of 36s - same bike, common faults.

Destroyed approximately 734 ISIS BBs - a good fortnights worth, they were terrible.

Very rarely break anything

Last mechanical was a loose cable ferrule

Bent the forks on my Raleigh Avanti back in 1990(?)

Just the odd rear mech or gear cable really. Don't think I've ever put a wheel beyond use even.

I wonder if there's any correlation between riders who started out on a fully rigid MTB and not breaking stuff?

I am fork murderer

Not really. In 20 years: 2 cranks, 1 rear rim split through the spoke holes on the outer wall, 1 ovalised headtube (repaired, still riding that one).

Struggling to think of anything else. Couple of spokes... I really think that's it.

I went to cross a road in Betws years ago. I pushed off and suddenly one foot slpped to the floor, thought I'd missed my spd.

Nope I'd snapped my crank!

I tend to wear stuff out rather than break it - the worst I've done it snapped a couple of chains.

I broke the carbon forks and tacoed the front wheel on my commuter, but that was probably the Golf hitting it rather than me breaking it.

This year

YT Tues CF Comp frame
Boxxer Teams
Made a set of pikes not work
4 Chains
Two XTR Brakes
One pair of Stans Flow ex's
3 Reverbs
a Pair of XT brakes
One set of mallet bearings
Many many chainrings and a cassette
One XTR Shifter
Destroyed a Monarch Debonair internally
Endless gearcables
Buckled one Highroller 2
Bent a high end spesh seat
Broke an Enve

All XTR M9000 By the way

I ride hard and regularly.

And also break most of the items I run in some fashion

I ride hard and regularly.

And I ride soft and regularly and haven't broken anything in at least 10 years and would be amazed if I did.

I've only broken 2 sets of XTR SPD's as far as I can recall.

Probably the only parts I bought due to them being fit and forget.

Typical.

Don't tend to break things, more wear them out beyond repair.

Except for frames and tyres. I've done two frames in the last year, and probably 6 tyres from various brands. Such is life.

Scott Genius chain stay (causing a cracked rib for me)
Commencal Meta frame
Lapierre Zesty 2x chain stays, 1 x frame
A few chains
Spokes
1 rear mech

Put a dent in the downtube on my 05 Enduro at Morzine one time,managed to bend a mech hanger on my old Giant NRS,minor tears in the sidewall on a couple of tyres. I've worn out plenty of stuff over the years though...

I can't think of a bike part I haven't broken! 😕

Spesh rovals to be expected

I was as much as called an idiot on here 6-7 years ago, when I stated that they weren't up to the job

I ride hard and regularly.

Then wash your bike with a sledgehammer?

Ha, nope. Always looked after with no expense spared.

Whistler and basque country had a lot to do with the above as did some crashes.

Oh yeah, forgot 6 shock bushings across 2 bikes.

I don't break many things, thankfully.

USE carbon post.
cheap alloy post bent (it was cheap)
Cannondale F3000 frame (wore through the chainstay with my heel)
XT cranks (again, wore through with heel)
XT rear hub, bearings goosed after a couple of months
Rear wheels...
then there was BB's
Stronglight Axis ti, axle snapped
stronglight cartridge type, sheared driveside cup
Stronglight Axis steel, bearing siezed and wore through axle.
Royce Ti, axle snapped.

Bottom race of headsets always die prematurely.

Nike Poobah shoes, snapped sole, on all of the replacements too.

I'm actually fairly easy on components

Leaving aside consumables like bottom brackets and brake pads, I've killed a Deore hydraulic disk lever and bent a set of bars following one crash and knackered a set of Marzocchi forks in another.

Spokes don't count.

Lots of wheels, some stems and cranks, and a Raleigh Activator II on the Malvern Classic downhill, if anyone remembers it. 😆

Folded a steel bar on my carrera jumping off a wall at my school, all downhill from there 😆 Answer alu bar at fort william, a bunch of mechs, a manitou swinger shock, an exotic and a thomson seatpost, a 32mm boxxer top crown, a flow and a flow ex rim (on the same hub), and a traversee and LB rim (also on the same, different hub), and a 719 and a pair of 721s that cracked to buggery. Oh and every major frame component on my hemlock over the space of 5 years. Not too bad really. Some of the stuff I'm still using, I think some people would declare to be dead but they still work

Also resurrected a Soda- bought it cracked, got it fixed- and a couple of sets of forks, I guess that offsets it a bit!

In the last 3 years, 4 frames and one rear rim.

rear mechs, loads of the bloody things, apart from that, almost nothing, must be a mincer. Makes me think I could get away with lighter kit if I wasn't so tight.

Not really.Whilst riding I've had a couple of mech hangers go , a banjoed rear disc and a snapped seat post.
I think I've lost more bloody rear lights than mechanicals tbh....

In 8 seasons of Alpine guiding, I've broken:

1 frame
1 fork
2 swingarms
2 rims
2 hoses (1 brake, 1 reverb)
1 rear mech (worn out a few more)
1 mech hanger
3 freehubs
1 shifter
Maybe half-a-dozen spokes

Can't think of much else that isn't more-or-less consumable.

A few chains, a brake lever, a couple of mechs, a couple of sets of cranks (worn them out). Not a lot really.

Kona Unit frame (crumpled down tube)
Kona Explosif scandium frame (cracked around top tube/seat tube junction)
Rocky Mountain ETS70 frame (cracked seat tube)
Snapped (aluminium) handlebars
Seized rear hub after worn out cartridge bearing fell apart
Snapped v brake lever
Cracked cassette body on Hope Ti-glide hub
Bent seatpost

Not counting all the worn out bearings, rims etc.

Not too many things for about 16 years of serious riding.

Over the past 20 years or 1 frame, 4 forks (2 sets of rigid), 1 hope xc front hub, 1 hope xc rear hub, 4 sets of cranks, numerous pedals, 3 rear mechs.

Not too bad since I used to do a lot of dirt jumping and downhill.

EDIT I forgot a set of brakes

GT Zaskar LE Frame - Snapped at the head tube had been ridden/jumped to death
Spooky Metalhead Frame - snapped at the head tube - hit the back of a parked car
Sun Mammoth Rim - Dirt Jumping
Proshift Rear Mech - Jumping up a ledge
4 Pairs of Pace RC30 Trials Forks, well not broken, but the crown ovalised were the legs screwed in, i think they were just a bad design

cannot think of anything else I've broken (apart from my Leg in May) and they were all 10-15 years ago

bent a mech hanger at the Mega, but they are meant to bend, bushings are bearings don't count surely

never bust a mech with general riding, nor snapped a spoke, don't really buy junk so maybe something to do with that?

dirtyrider - Member

bushings are bearings don't count surely

Suppose it depends. I wore out a deore BB in 6 hours. Well, probably about 4 hours but I managed to get it to last to the end of the day.