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How can so much bad bike luck come in such a short period of time?
Currently on hols in the Lakes and last Wed Faz Jnr splits his tyre descending to Rosthwaite. No problem - just pop a tube in, limp back to base and replace tyre. Sorted.
Next day at Whinlatter my shifter packs up. Rang around and no one locally has any 12 speed SRAM. Ok - never liked NX anyway, so ordered a Shimano shifter and XT mech from CRC with next day delivery. Waited around and right at the end of my two hour time slot the package was in my eager hands. An hour of fettling and it's working perfectly.
That brings us to today. This was going to be the big ride of the holiday - up Langstrath valley, over to Styhead tarn and down to Seathwaite. Then up Honnister down the Warnscale descent, back up Honnister and down Castle Crag - only it didn't happen. While riding a perfectly flat section of trail before Langstrath my front wheel spat up a rock which did this to my shiny one day old mech.
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When I finished crying I then discovered that the chain tool that had been in my tool bag for years was in fact made of chocolate and were it not for some passing bike packers (thanks guys hope you enjoyed your wild camp) it would have been a long walk home!
Obviously this is first world problems etc but even so.
That's pretty tragic.
My derailleurs always seem to go bang on the most innocuous trails too. Why is that?
That was also my third aborted attempt at that route - somebody's trying to tell me something.
I laughed, but I laughed with you. Many of us have been in similar situations, feel your pain. When it goes wrong, it goes wrong!
Your chain tool experience mirrors mine with a Crank Bros multitool - the one time I actually needed it, the threads stripped on the pin driver. bastard thing is now somewhere deep in the Alsace forest.
park tool mini chain tool is the only one for me. admittedly 'only' been let down by 3 others, but still...