Monday, February 8, 2010
What's going on?
Sorry I haven't been posting. I dislocated my finger and I haven't really felt like typing. It's getting better, so expect new posts soon. Until then, check out these bike crash photos from Life magazine.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
2nd Busted Look Seatpost


From Richard:
The brief story is my first Look seatpost broke after 2 years. The Look replacement (warranty) broke in 10 minutes at the exact same location. Look is scratching their head and generally not wanting to replace the replacement. For the record I weigh 165 lbs and ride a Look 585.
10 minutes has to be a record.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Destroyed Olmo
From Eric:
Plowed into a guy that crashed in front of me at a crit a few years back. Had the frame for 2 weeks.
Damn, that sucks.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Look 486
Monday, January 11, 2010
Bontrager Carbon Fiber Fork Failure
Over a Cozy Beehive, there was a photo and some analysis of a carbon fork failure.
I had an accident in May where the actual blades suddenly failed. It was a bontrager carbon fiber fork. The bike was a friend's, and had been ridden quite a bit. It failed right as I got up to sprint. Nonetheless, it was on flat ground, and wasn't involved in a crash.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Broken Handlebar

From a mountain bike race in Singapore. Less than 500m in to the race. You can't win if you don't finish.
Labels:
carbon,
handlebars
Monday, January 4, 2010
Broken Lemond Seatstay

From John:
Here is a photo of a broken carbon seatstay – got hit by an oncoming car that turned left into me as I crossed an intersection. By the way, Calfee repaired this and you can’t tell it was broken.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Huge Crash

This one has been making the rounds on the internet on "funny image" websites and email forwards. No idea on the story behind it, but it looks very painful.
See you all in 2010 with more photos of broken bikes.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Non Catastrophic Failure

Sometimes carbon frames fail in less dramatic ways. Robert sent me this photo of his 2006 Time Edge First. The frame developed a small crack between the headtube and the downtube. Time had a new frame to him six days later.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Aero seatpost on a mountain bike?
Jamie sent me this photo of his theme bike which uses as many components designed in the UK as possible. That included using an aero road seatpost in a mountain bike. Oops, not the best idea.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Rocky Mountain Slayer
Once again, I'm posting one of my wife's bikes. This her Rocky Mountain Slayer that she bought used from the Dirt Series. Second ride it tipped over and broke. Why do they even put carbon on bikes like these? It's not a cross country bike, weight just doesn't matter that much. Rocky Mountain was good about it, they replaced the part no questions asked.
Enjoy the carbon goodies you get for Christmas, and send me photos of them when they break.
Labels:
carbon,
rocky mountain,
slayer
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Caloso and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day


Check out this thread on bikeforums for more photos and the story of how Caloso broke his bike in half.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Bike Rack Crunch
Monday, December 21, 2009
Busted BH

Liam sent me this photo of his BH. He broke the forks by running over a branch while climbing at 8mph. No photo of the branch. Check out his photostream for more info.
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