Monsieur Remings
Guru
- Location
- Yatton UK
Ouch! It had to happen at some point.
Out on a coast to coast club run today with my local club and travelling along an awful piece of Devon lane, I'm on the front but everyone is scattered about for the moment behind, like I was in front trying to avoid the potholes; another rider then overtakes as I need to dodge one and bam! straight into the back wheel of another rider. I come off at about 10-15 miles an hour and my right side is not so pretty, a very grazed and cut leg and the same with the arm. Not painful enough to stop riding and I finish up with some 80 miles left to do of the 140.
But I'm gutted that, typically, after a new mech hanger was fitted recently and even more recently a rear mech, that the hanger is bent beyond help and my shiny new Force rear mech is now scratched. Aaaargh! The only other damage appears to be a front wheel out of true and superficial scratches to the pedals and saddle. Reckon I got off lightly but after so much time in the LBS recently with this and that it's just...bloody typical!
I'm not usually very philosophical about these things but I am tonight. Perhaps the Crits that have put me off before now for precisely this reason may become a reality next season now..? Just glad that there is no more superficial damage to the frame and I guess it'll be worth checking for anything more structural in the immediate riding time ahead.
But, there could have been a car, another rider as well as myself could have been injured and I'm glad there wasn't. I took the blame partly out of embarrassment but this road was truly atrocious. If I'd have kept my line I'd have gone head over heels in the pothole and taken the rider out whose back wheel was already level with mine by that point. Perhaps some system of communication from riders coming through?
On a more positive note I found out that I could climb hills I'd always used a 39-28 on, with a ridiculously high gear out of necessity. Due to the mech hanger bending as a result of the impact, the rear mech was hitting the spokes on the rear wheel in the lower gears and so I made it home (and over Shipham Hill for those who know it) on a 39-19 - my lowest gear.
Oh well...part of the learning curve I guess... a cold bath and Savlon followed, not to mention the beer next to the keyboard.
Out on a coast to coast club run today with my local club and travelling along an awful piece of Devon lane, I'm on the front but everyone is scattered about for the moment behind, like I was in front trying to avoid the potholes; another rider then overtakes as I need to dodge one and bam! straight into the back wheel of another rider. I come off at about 10-15 miles an hour and my right side is not so pretty, a very grazed and cut leg and the same with the arm. Not painful enough to stop riding and I finish up with some 80 miles left to do of the 140.
But I'm gutted that, typically, after a new mech hanger was fitted recently and even more recently a rear mech, that the hanger is bent beyond help and my shiny new Force rear mech is now scratched. Aaaargh! The only other damage appears to be a front wheel out of true and superficial scratches to the pedals and saddle. Reckon I got off lightly but after so much time in the LBS recently with this and that it's just...bloody typical!
I'm not usually very philosophical about these things but I am tonight. Perhaps the Crits that have put me off before now for precisely this reason may become a reality next season now..? Just glad that there is no more superficial damage to the frame and I guess it'll be worth checking for anything more structural in the immediate riding time ahead.
But, there could have been a car, another rider as well as myself could have been injured and I'm glad there wasn't. I took the blame partly out of embarrassment but this road was truly atrocious. If I'd have kept my line I'd have gone head over heels in the pothole and taken the rider out whose back wheel was already level with mine by that point. Perhaps some system of communication from riders coming through?
On a more positive note I found out that I could climb hills I'd always used a 39-28 on, with a ridiculously high gear out of necessity. Due to the mech hanger bending as a result of the impact, the rear mech was hitting the spokes on the rear wheel in the lower gears and so I made it home (and over Shipham Hill for those who know it) on a 39-19 - my lowest gear.
Oh well...part of the learning curve I guess... a cold bath and Savlon followed, not to mention the beer next to the keyboard.
, one involved cleats not releasing and the other a shoe that decided to lock under the chain stay as I was trying to release. 
