It was only a matter of time...I crashed

…Crashed my Trek road bike. I was zipping around a tight asphalt corner on a bicycle trail here in Ohio; speeding around 17mph-ish when I hit a 4" diameter branch lying in the path. I think I got some air time.

Now I have a huge knot on my hip now being cooled with a bag of frozen chicken tenders and some lovely rash on my forearm.

I have been hanging around RENCRN8 too much.

Bad part is I roughed up my snazzy new SRAM shifters.

 

Need to wheelie over that ish.

Sorry about the shifters, they sound expensive.

 

Now that it has some scars, you won't worry so much about it.. now it's just a tool to go ride instead of a two-wheeled showpiece.

 

Just throw some new tape on there and you'll be good to go.

 

Welcome to the elbow scars group

Sorry about the fall Chris.

 

WOW, you fell so hard all of the lettering on your riding shirt flipped backwards! Hope you had a helmet on!

 

Ouch!

You might want to check that carbon fork, sometimes they can be damaged and its not easily visible.

www.bustedcarbon.com

 

just noticed the shirt

 

So you mean you are getting faster???????

 

Talk to me.

 

beJeZzus.....Thats a nice bike Trek??? Im still riding the entry level road bike 19.8lbs.
I was out 2 saturdays ago and took my eyes off the road for a second while looking at a spandex clad hottie running on the path. The road was bending right and I over compensated and clean off the road. Couldn't unclip (new wide spd's). Was able to keep it up, just embarrased.

I think its bound to happen man. Every weekend here in DC I see people laid up while im out riding.

 

I was coming up to an intersection one time. It was about 9 in the morning on a Saturday, plenty of cars around.. I was doing a brick (tri training) and had just got done running a 10k. I guess I was just really tired and not paying attention. I come to a stop at a light and realize both of my feet are still clipped in. I tried to get my right foot unclipped but was not successful and fell over, right at the light in the fairly busy intersection. I could see people laughing me. I got up, put my head down hoping no one would recognize me (college town) and hauled ass out of there. haha

I still feel like an idiot when I think about it. :down:

 

And remember to re-teched!!

 

After reading this, this is the first thing that came to mind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lg5ZKWfPOU&feature=PlayList&p=FB7858CD223E5305&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=40

 

Is that the same as the knee scars group?

 

I sure hope so. Frenchieeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

 

Cool site, I have a set of the Mavic R-SYS wheels on my ride. I heard stories about them failing. LUCKY mine didn't fail before I sent it in. The spokes look reinforced now. With actual carbon weave laid on top. So well see, I think that there has got to be more behind the wheels busting, such as handling of the wheel, packing , care etc... Still makes me scared to pack it in the bike case now for fear of opening it up and finding busted wheels...

 

Holy Crap

 

When do we get our membership cards?

 

Rashing the bike sucks. When I crashed and broke my hip, the best thing about that was there isn't a scratch on the bike from that tumble :up:

On the whole, I'd rather have totalled the bike than my hip, tho'

Cheers
Barry