@xtaran asks:
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2. Most unexpected was a time I stood on a pedal to start from a stop, and the crank arm tore in the middle. Thankfully it only tore halfway when that happened. It puzzled the bike shop mechanics as much as it flummoxed me!
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2. Also, this wasn't _my_ failure, but I was at a big event (Tour de Tucson) and the rider immediately in front of me experienced his carbon seatpost exploding and strewing parts everywhere. Thankfully he managed to avoid causing a major wreck!
Nb don't overtighten carbon fiber components!
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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2: the first Shitmano 8 speed hub that failed after 5000km was unexpected. Warranty replacement.
The replacement also failing after 5000km was less unexpected. No warranty despite being inside the 2 year promised warrenty period.
When the third one failed also after 5000km it was 100% expected.
A Rohloff would have been cheaper.
@moz @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite That's handy to know! #BikeNite
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2. Seat post. Pedal. I would mention the stemhead and front fork, but neither of those were truly unexpected, or remarkable, considering the accidents. Fenders have failed repeatedly and in ever-more-surprising manners, so I am no longer surprised when they do. Okay, the squirrel wasn't precisely a *failure*.
Putting on a bike helmet and one side just… fell off? No, no previous accident, nor new, but possibly damaged during a move.
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A2. Also, this wasn't _my_ failure, but I was at a big event (Tour de Tucson) and the rider immediately in front of me experienced his carbon seatpost exploding and strewing parts everywhere. Thankfully he managed to avoid causing a major wreck!
Nb don't overtighten carbon fiber components!
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite #BikeNite
A2. While bombing down a rocky trail, a part of one of the front cantilever brakes on my '93 MTB fell off, and I didn't notice til miles later. Turns out old XTR cantilever parts are *very* hard to find now, so we went back the next day (me on a different bike) to re-ride the trail v e r y s l o w l y, and, amazingly, found the cantilever (thanks to my eagle-eyed husband).
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2. Unexpected bicycle part failure was a pedal on my mountain bike that I thwacked a curb on a curb cut and the pedal bent out of shape. I rode it for some time like that.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2) I recently had a derailleur fail on my mountain bike. What made it unexpected is that it was badly twisted but I have no memory of hitting anything which would damage it. Just one day it quit shifting, no idea what I did to it.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2:
At the rest stop just before the decision point whether a ride was a metric century or imperial, we said "eh, we'll do metric."
A couple miles after the decision point, my Campy Centaur rear brifter felt weird, stuck, and proceeded to spit out a small brass piece - the ratchet device that the lever uses to pull on the cable had broken in half.
I run a rapid rise derailleur, so pushing the button on either side downshifts - the ratchets on both sides upshift. (Campy 10 shifter on a Shimano 9 derailleur.)
So here I am, maybe 10 miles to go, there's no way to upshift my cassette, and the bike has only two gears - low and OMG low, selectable with the dual chainring. I am a masher, not a spinner, and by the end of those miles I was _so_ glad to get off the bike. Yeesh. Took. For. Ever.
Very very glad we didn't decide to add another 35 miles that day!
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2 #bikenite I had something similar where the freewheel started skipping, combined with the axle threads stripping. Unfortunately I was putting down maximum power at the time, trying to catch up with a group. Zero resistance all of a sudden sent me over the bars.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2. The most unexpected was when my chain just... fell off on a slight incline. I was quite perturbed, but close to my destination at least!
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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2: There's a stop sign at an intersection on Burke Gilman in northeast Seattle that I call Breakdown Point because I've had both my unexpected breakdowns there. One was a pedal saying "yeah, nah" and... not falling completely off but ... the centre part stayed but the outer frame said g'bye, more or less. (I was able to get home on the centre stick.) And...
...uh.
Something else broke at the same place but I don't remember what. It may've been the pedal again but that doesn't feel right. Something where again I could get home tho'.
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2 continuance: Thinking about it some more I think it was a derailleur issue. I was able to nurse it enough to get home and ... YES WAIT THAT'S IT it was the drop thing, uh, whatever it is. The, uh. The... HANGER. Yes. The hanger had decided to lead a new and different life and my LBS had to replace it for a real fix. THAT was it.
Just out of nowhere, too.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2: On the second day of a three-day tour with a friend in Okayama, at the bottom of a long descent I noticed that I'd lost four spokes from my front wheel. With a spoke wrench I managed to get it more or less round and straight and stable enough to gently gently do 10k at low speed, to reach a town where several calls finally turned up a bike shop open and able to set new spokes. We managed to thread the needle and reach goal in daylight.
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
I would have said the seat post bolt snapping on me a couple of weeks ago (the one that holds the clamp to the rails of the seat), but according to a number of people on here they've had the same thing happen!
I had a front brake go once. But it weirdly went in that the spring vanished. So it would still work to stop the bike, but it had to be manually opened again after all stops if I didn't want to ride with a lot of extra resistance. It was a "fun" week until I could get it into the shop and have them diagnose the problem (those are apparently not replaceable, you have to get a whole new brake).
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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2: the first Shitmano 8 speed hub that failed after 5000km was unexpected. Warranty replacement.
The replacement also failing after 5000km was less unexpected. No warranty despite being inside the 2 year promised warrenty period.
When the third one failed also after 5000km it was 100% expected.
A Rohloff would have been cheaper.
@moz i have over 10, 000 km on my Shimano 8 speed Alfine hub without any issues . I want a Rohloff as well of course
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite #BikeNite A2. Blew out a (used) Brooks saddle once, it ripped out in front. And had a rear derailleur break in half (cheap groupset, probably got dropped at some point and bent back, but it as already compromised). Replaced it with another cheap derailleur, which may do it again LOL.
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I would have said the seat post bolt snapping on me a couple of weeks ago (the one that holds the clamp to the rails of the seat), but according to a number of people on here they've had the same thing happen!
I had a front brake go once. But it weirdly went in that the spring vanished. So it would still work to stop the bike, but it had to be manually opened again after all stops if I didn't want to ride with a lot of extra resistance. It was a "fun" week until I could get it into the shop and have them diagnose the problem (those are apparently not replaceable, you have to get a whole new brake).
@SRLevine @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite Not a bike story, but my dad and I were once driving a ton and a half truck down Highway 32 in Northern California (steep grades, canyon-edge sections with no guard rails), and the brakes failed. Dad was driving and managed to get it stopped. He called a mechanic friend (I forget how, maybe he flagged down a passing motorist?) who fixed the brakes, but in the way you describe—so we limped home avoiding any use of the brakes. Such, such were the joys.
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@glent @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite
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@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A2
Broken handlebar, wallowed out crank, chain (bad maintenance on my part), broken helmet (garage door failure while I was walking under), a stop sign (leaned on and found out the wooden post was rotten) -
@xtaran asks:
Given that the freewheel of my Brompton Electric G-Line started failing today and the cassette was spinning without the wheel in both directions...
Q2. What _unexpected_ part failures have you had on your cycle(s)? (Ordinary flat tires do not count.
)#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
A2. Derailleur broke off and wedged between my rear wheel spokes as I was bicycling home. Crashed with only skin burn on my forearm. But no way to wheel it home. About 30 Kilometers away. So I carried it, put it down, carried it over and over. Kind man in his pickup gave me a ride. I had a good amount of cash (for me) on my person at the time. He refused payment.
