Breaking Things
So far, here’s the list of non-consumable stuff I’ve broken, clapped out or lost this year (counting last cross season):
- ARAYA rear wheel (donkeyed rim and broken spokes)
- Ritchey front wheel (donkeyed and dented rim)
- ALX rear wheel (donkeyed rim)
- FSA rear wheel (my worn down brake shoes “lathed” a nice deep gouge into the rim, not sure if its safe to use)
- DT Swiss hubs (seized up)
- road handlebars (sheared in half)
- road stem (cracked)
- MTB brake lever
- Salsa locking MTB grip
- RockShox Reba 29er forks
- set of aero bars (stripped out bolt-hole threads)
- every pair of cycling shorts I own
- every pair of gloves I own
- 1 longsleeve BIKEMAN jersey bit the dust
- the “Big Air” I lost at the Glocester Grind when I ran over Chuck
- all my blinkie lights and a multitool that I dropped somewhere when my saddle bag was open
For some reason, my wife does not find this humorous.
Just think of the joy your open saddle bag brought to some fellow brother of the wheel when he found all of those roadside “treats”.
it’s more likely that everything got smashed to bits when runned over by some gap-tooth Scituate yokel driving a Plymouth.