She is now finished

splatbucket
I was setting off for a bit of a ride, and after about a mile going down a bit of a hill (not too bad though) anyway I was back pedaling and all of a sudden the chain goes completely limp. So unable to slow down I ended up slamming into a corner, I was fine but the bike was a bit mangled.

Ain't riding brakeless grand!! :S

31trum(murtle) fuckin A, what a result. 8^)

Coulda heard about this on the news instead though..

Which hub was it? Was it the locknut thread that stripped or the reverse thread that's on the actual hub?
As Tommy says, if there's a gap between cog and locknut, you can smack the lockring off when stopping/skidding/etc.
I do it all up then do lots of hard standing starts to make sure the cog is tight then tighten the locknut any further.

No I had fitted the front brake, it wasnt peticually great but it did stop me from wiping out too bad. The trouble was its a really crap road surface on the roads near me and I didnt want to loose any chance I had of steering by sending the front into a skid.
Also I had put toe-straps onto the pedals (this picture was taken litrally after i finnished everything, and i wanted to get used to riding before putting on straps)

The hubs were unbranded SJS (the cycle shop i got them from) hubs, these ones

As for were the locknuts on correctly etc, I was actually having a problem putting the sprocket on, and so took it all back to the shop, they discovered that the sprocket tread was slightly stripped, and so they replaced it, fitted it and tightened it all up. This is probably the reason that they are replacing everything, cause they fitted the parts that broke.

Blimey... you are one lucky guy, since you're ok and you're getting a new frame!

Post pics when done, of course ;)

Damn! Guess that means we should keep an eye out for future SJS hub failures. Does anyone else use them?

Just make sure you've got a really old frame really peculiar part sizes though :)

Should have just ghosted it and leapt off.