What did you break, puncture, bend, dent or otherwise ruin this week?

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Otherwise my shifting seems to be off after my back wheel slipped out twice on two different turns, and falling onto derailleur side. Don't try to pass on the inside on a turn... apparently.
 
Norm said:
On an absolutely totally unrelated note, I destroyed several stakes at the cross venue yesterday, 1 that was possibly yellow and coming out of the first S at the bottom of the opening downhill. Maybe.
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I am absolutely almost certain this is probably just coincidence. Maybe 🙄

Dutch Frog said:
THE MYTHICAL YELLOW STAKE. I'm pretty sure there was only one, and honestly you should have won a prize just for finding it with your front wheel!
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A new PDX? :thumbsup:
 
The Heckler said:
I tore both legs off my body yesterday.
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@The Heckler - I saw you in the B and 1/2/3 races. The USAC official kept telling everyone that you were in your 4th race and that you won the single speed race. Congrats!

But I think your pace in the 1/2/3 race would've been good for placing in the Cat 5 race. I mean this in a very positive way that even after turning yourself inside-out in multiple races, you were still drilling it up the hills.
 
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Rough day on equipment for me. I crashed hard on the steep switchback pre-riding (wet grass + file treads = poor decision) and snapped my left brake lever right off. B-bike saves the day. Then I noticed a crack in my rear rim before the start of my race. Then 8 laps of that course broke my spirit.
 
I can verify that there were several yellow stakes. Possibly up to 10-15. Even more fun there are yellow stakes spray painted blue. If I were to make a collection of stakes I would buy only white/yellow. The black stakes are hard to see in the dark, Though they seemed more flexible then the rest. Possibly making them more resilient to @Norm 's front wheel. The flex did not help when pulling them out of the ground.

I only picked up maybe a dozen broken stakes yesterday, great job guys.
 
Dutch Frog said:
Flatted my front tubular on Saturday at Whirlybird CX. I think it had a slow leak since pre-rides because it was feeling a little strange, but I put 40 psi in and it seemed to hold for an hour before the race so I wrote the "weird" feelings off. in hindsight I should have borrowed a wheel. I got two laps in hanging on to the lead group and it just totally let go. so being without pit wheels I walked to the pit slowly just to let the officials know I was dropping out. However, to my surprise, Evan Murphy was standing in the pit heckling me. he didn't want me to DNF so he lent me his bike and I was able to finish the race! it was a great experience, and he is my new favorite pro!
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YOU SHOULD HAVE TAKEN MY WHEEL
 
@The Heckler will be all up in my biz about how cross isn't over for another month but by that time everybody else will have already forgotten...

Roll Call on Equipment Breakage for 2015!?

Here's our damage tally for the season
1 Broken Chain - discovered prior to racing on it
3 Flats:
(1 Challenge Chicane Team Edition tire - flatted in practice before the first race, threw in some Stans. Raced 5+ times with no problems
1 FMB Slalom tire - pinch flat slow leak. Orange Seal. Raced again with no problems
1 Clement PDX front - slash in the tread. Stans sealed it up but I haven't raced it again.)
1 broken Campy front shifter - crashed hard pre-riding at Marty's and snapped the sucker right off.
1 cracked chinacarbon rim. Going to ride it until the carbon is so soft that birds are nesting in it.

not bad considering that's 2 racers x 12 races although we really only had 1 muddy race this year.
 
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14 races and minimal carnage = success.

1. Bent derailleur hanger Nittany day 1
2.. Bent derailleur hanger HPCX day 2
3. *Punctured rear PDX HPCX day 2.
4. *Punctured front PDX Marty's.

*both punctures were sealed with Orange Seal and still going strong.

Too bad my body wasn't as reliable 😀
 
Couldn't shift to the small front chain ring today, the lever absolutely wouldn't budge. I stopped and physically moved the chain unto it. Went about 50 feet and back it went to the large chain ring. I couldn't budge the front derailleur. I left it alone and continued my ride, rather than mess with it and screw it up all together. Got home and undid the cable from the derailleur to determine if it was messed up or the cable had a problem. Everything seemed fine. I reinstalled the cable and all is well, no more problem! All my repairs should be this easy. Broken to fixed easily.
 
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broken front shifter
bent handlebar
one rolled tubular
one bottom bracket
one headset
cracked carbon rear wheel, but it was already cracking, so .5?
all my wheels are already dented so that doesnt count
only crashed twice in 13 races (not counting nittany)
 
pearl said:
broken front shifter
bent handlebar
one rolled tubular
one bottom bracket
one headset
cracked carbon rear wheel, but it was already cracking, so .5?
all my wheels are already dented so that doesnt count
only crashed twice in 13 races (not counting nittany)
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State Champeen doe! I'd say you broke even 😀
 
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