Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Went down to look after my Mum who has been in hospital recently, and took the Mojo with me with a view to a quick blast of the Chase. Started off alright, ...this was my second ride with the new clutch XT mech, and was really pinning it. It started to go a bit wrong in "Twist and Shout" where I hit one tree on the left, pinged into another on the right and ended up shoulder slamming a third tree.
Oh well, serves me right for putting new 777 mm bars on I suppose. Next, my nemesis, the boardwalk after the rock garden. I rode straight off it the first time I did it and sprung a rib and my garmin because I was in the wrong gear and not carrying enough speed. Next time I rode it fine, but this time hit it a bit too fast and it was so slimy my front tyre washed out and I simply stacked into the tree on the left as you start it as the bike went sideways from under me.
So, with peat and bog water up to my kneepads I rode on and got to the start of "High Voltage". As I started to pedal I changed to the big ring to hear an almighty crunch and stopped dead. The new rear mech was wrapped round the cassette, sheared across the X part of the XT logo, with the jockey cage tangled in the spokes. I had to split the chain to disentangle it and took a load of links out to try and singelspeed my way home. So, that's sixty quid down the tubes. (Chain Reaction have an offer of 10% off components, I had a £5 voucher for a £50 spend and a Paypal spend 40 get a tenner back offer, so allthat was used up to get a new mech and chain for less than £40 !) It was a beautiful day too. I'd even survived "The Cobbles of Death" and was absolutely dialled.
Oh well, serves me right for putting new 777 mm bars on I suppose. Next, my nemesis, the boardwalk after the rock garden. I rode straight off it the first time I did it and sprung a rib and my garmin because I was in the wrong gear and not carrying enough speed. Next time I rode it fine, but this time hit it a bit too fast and it was so slimy my front tyre washed out and I simply stacked into the tree on the left as you start it as the bike went sideways from under me.
So, with peat and bog water up to my kneepads I rode on and got to the start of "High Voltage". As I started to pedal I changed to the big ring to hear an almighty crunch and stopped dead. The new rear mech was wrapped round the cassette, sheared across the X part of the XT logo, with the jockey cage tangled in the spokes. I had to split the chain to disentangle it and took a load of links out to try and singelspeed my way home. So, that's sixty quid down the tubes. (Chain Reaction have an offer of 10% off components, I had a £5 voucher for a £50 spend and a Paypal spend 40 get a tenner back offer, so allthat was used up to get a new mech and chain for less than £40 !) It was a beautiful day too. I'd even survived "The Cobbles of Death" and was absolutely dialled.