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Sadly, I broke my Girlfriend! 🙁
Well technically she broke herself, she let go of the brakes a bit much going down a steep slope in the FOD (brilliant conditions there at the moment by the way, trails in ace condition!), then when she picked up too much speed, panic braked and locked the front wheel on soft ground and it tucked under, and she went down hard on her shoulder.
We find out tomorrow morning whether she's got to have her collarbone pinned or not, but a clean break right through it, near to the end (so even the nurse suspected she'd only dislocated her shoulder at first). The X Ray revealed all, but there was no mistaking what had happened!
Just as she was starting to get a knack for it too... Ah well, she's determined to get back on it as soon as she can at least.
Not broken but 7 hours riding and certain areas of my body are still numb
I have a brand new Zee mech that's all sorts of bent and twisted, and I tore my favourite Sombrio shorts from arse to knee.
Nowt broken but a lovely cut across the rbidge of my nose, assorted scratches to my right cheek and my right leg is a fetching shade of purple below the knee.
My chainring snapped. Lateral force when the chain jammed in the device.
A personal best...thanks to drier trails, I managed to complete my local loop in two hours. A month ago it took me three and a half to negotiate the mud fest.
chain broke... again.
Bent a rear rotor, just riding along.
Pinch flatted on the surly krampus at Afan... How the hell can I pinch a 3.0 inch tyre?
One of my mates
What are your impressions on the Krampus Charlie?
My shoulder by going sideways into a tree. Oh and my xtr brake lever 🙁
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Not riding but was in the garage.
During a refurb of my girlfriends race bike - denzildoorknobs on eres old omega.
She asked can you raise the saddle a cm or so it feels a bit low now - shes been yogaing and is a bit more flexible now.
Queue seatpost stuck - when ws the last time you moved this ? - errr never.
Bollocks
Filled seat tube with cola left it for a while , applied some heat , in a vise and rotating it.
Welds at the seat tube / top tube gave out ... But then was a triple butted easton scandium frame weighing around 1kg so proably could have predicted the result
Credit cards out and im waiting on dolan to tell me if they can ship today for next day delivery ..... Her first pre season training session with her new team is next week. Oops
My common sense, I found myself looking longingly at Charlie's Krampus in the FoD car park.
I broke my grrlfriend too, but only in a very minor way.
We're still learning on the tandem. One of the things we found out yesterday is that small overhanging twigs, that I would normally ignore as they brush against my shoulder, whip back and whack her in the face.
Cut lip for her and a promise from me to try to call out hazards better.
No probs this weekend.
Was more stunned by the experience of getting back home with the bike in pretty much the same condition as when I went out apart from a bit of dust
My off-road 'distance ridden before a proper break' PB )
My seat post bolt. And as always with these things it was at the furthest point from the car! Such a shame as it was a cracking day weather wise
huge blowout just over a mile from home, a piece of flint sliced through the tyre leaving a hole big enough to get my finger through. ;o(
First time out on the MTB this year aswell!
Yup, I broke:
- my fork
- my thumb when it caught on the brake lever on the way otb (was on a road bike)
- and the Garmin watch when it hit the ground (won't be Straving for a while anyway).
Plenty other bumps, bruises, cuts, scrapes, scratches and grazes. Even got concussion and a black eye. But those were the only parts broken.
Snapped a Sram chain 🙁
One of my riding buddies spent quite a lot of time on the floor on Saturday.
Nothing broken though.
My PB for Sherwood pines!
I broke my finger at the Morvelo city cross in Halifax, but still enjoyed the event.
How long do they take to mend?
Possibly my brain, had a constant headache since a sizeable OTB yesterday. Luckily had gone for full facer over XC lid on the trails when I never have done before. I'm sure one more head knock wont make a difference though
Chain, server me right for being to lazy to downshift and then trying to ratchet my way up a fireroad hill..
I think I broke my heart and lungs yesterday.
trying to ride for an hour at zone 3/4 as consistently as possible all felt very good, but then on the ride to work this morning even the slightest hint of effort and my heart rate went through the roof...
My ribs. ok it was last week end. Please don't report me.
Yep - broke the seatstay on my road bike and pringled the rear wheel. Well not actually me - but the car that hit me did.
And the driver actually repeated the infamous SMIDSY line too .. that almost got a wry smile out of me ..
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Didnt break anything myself , but stopped to help a bloke who had fallen off at cannock and done something nasty to his knee.
Looked either dislocated or broken to me, his kneecap was bulging quite a lot, but he insisted he could walk/ride out, and didnt need any help. so we didnt call the ambulance and left him to it (after I checked he had a phone etc).
I broke my Innertube with a big fat snake bite puncture. Needed to rob a new tube off a friend 🙄
Does that count?
My knees. Don't normally hurt but they're excruciating today :0(
Broke ice on the puddles on Penmachno loop2. Then buckled my pride with a stylish faceplant into a hub-deep bog.
chain on my rocky! 🙁
My common sense, I found myself looking longingly at Charlie's Krampus in the FoD car park.
Was that Charlie The Bikemonger at FOD on Sunday on the Krampus?
Sorry mate, I was the guy looking rather stressed out parked just by you (we said Hi) before I jumped in my car still in my riding gear to go and pick my GF up to rush her to A&E...
Noticed the bike, didn't click that as yet it's still very rare so it might actually have been you riding it.
EDIT: Oh and a BIG thanks to Liz at the Pedalabikeaway centre for looking after her for probably 15 minutes or so whilst we pedalled like crazy to get back, and to the old Lady (not a clue of her name sadly) who kindly gave her a lift back when we flagged her down on the side of the road like crazed loons! Got her to A&E OK, snapped her Collarbone clean off near the shoulder joint, and is gonna take 6-8 weeks for her to recover sadly! The upside is they don't think they'll need to operate though.