CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@geonz @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite

This must have happened... Maybe 2006. Plus or minus two years. I mean, sure, social media existed, but not to the same degree as today, I think?

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite

A2.

I tend to mash more than I spin, and I was even worse about that when I was younger.
One day, starting from a standstill, standing on the pedal as usual and probably placing too much force on the handlebars - they snapped.

I walked in with the pieces to the LBS and just asked for a new handlebar as if it was just another Wednesday.

As an aside - which doesn't fit the question because firstly it didn't happen to me (I just happened to be nearby and saw it), and secondly _technically_ could be described as a "flat", was someone in a (somewhat slow) social ride who had the front tube blowout with such vigor that the tube somehow managed get stuck between the wheel and the brakes or fork (or both), locking up the wheel. We might just have been going slow enough that the rider managed to avoid getting literally thrown over the handlebars, but he did come down hard in any case.
I didn't know a tube could do that...