Those aren’t useable when new...
I broke so many of those I started carrying spares. Now they're on my zwift-dedicated setup. I even broke one indoors! Always the same - the spring breaks at the tight radius at the end.
Agreed. I don’t use them anymore but the vitriol is impressively sad in a way.
Both the cheap C and the 'better' SL. I switched to Time and haven't had a problem since.which version of them were you buying? iv broken a couple of the cheap ones, but the fully cast stainless bodies(3s i think) have been fine, and iv never managed to break a spring, not sure what some people do that they are constantly complaining about them. plus replacable bearings are always nice.
Didn't @jimvreeland just break a shimano? #nowwhat?
The reality is that just like the bike rack thread, any piece of equipment that is used a metric shit-ton will wear out and break.
It can wear out and break ,then go home with it's owner and then in the trash at home. Not the trails last I checked Circleswitch wasn't a garbage dump nor the rest of High Mt. Keep it clean!
Agreed. Though I tend to allow for mitigating circumstances. Like when someone is flying down the highway like an asshole, I assume they are rushing to the hospital as their wife is giving birth.
Likewise, in this case, the biker had just broken his/her pedal then suddenly got chased by a skunk. I see not other plausible explanation.
it coulda been a bear . . . (in which case hed likely have been unable to go back for the broken pedal)