Child Abuse

From Daniel:

Yet another victim of the roof carrier system and garage combination and an absent-minded father.

The conversation went as follows:

Father: How was your day?

Son: Pretty rubbish actually.

Father: It’s about to get worse...

Son: Where is my bike??

Cannondale Moto

From Sam:

I have a cannondale moto carbon bike, and I found suspected ‘CRACK’ or could be simple painting problems on both side of main pivot links.

Plz check photos…..

Hard to tell from the photos, but it definitely doesn't look right.

Bike Destroys Car

Ryan sent me this story about his friend Josh's bike.

The bike flew off of the roof of my car at 75 mph, shattering my rear window and bouncing down Interstate 95 in Maine, in the dark, on the way back from a crit in September 2007. The bike bounced into the road and got run over by a Mercedes C-class (my insurance company later found out that it punctured the oil tank of the Mercedes) and was totally wrecked. Luckily no one was hurt.

What had apparently happened was that Josh forgot to secure the rear wheel on my roof rack. The bike was facing backwards, and the carbon dropouts broke (they were still in my Thule tray!) and the bike went flying.

We collected the bike, put it in the back seat of my car (which was now covered in shattered glass) and Josh kept it in his apartment as a piece of "art".

Amazingly, the SRM survived the entire ordeal, and was in perfect shape, and lived on to be used on Josh's TT bike.

Army Spring Classic 2009

Thanks to Tony for some pictures of the carnage at the Army Spring Classic.

Another Garage Incident

Brandon sent me these photos of his road bike which was on the roof rack when his friend drove into the garage. His carbon mountain bike was on the rack as well, while it didn't break, he's wondering if it is still safe to ride. I don't suggest he just try it and see.

Oh My!

I have no idea what happened to this bike. It looks like ever carbon piece is broken.

Recall Warning: Cannondale Ships Without Dork Disk

Special warning, the 2009 Cannondale Six 5, Six 6, Six Carbon 5 and Six Carbon 6 Bicycles shipped without the dork disk installed. If you take your bike back to your LBS they will happily install one for you. More details.