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I had a Peugeot Comete years ago and it literally disintegrated as I was accelerating away from a bus. It wasn't a problem though, because I used my knees and elbows as brakes and missed being dispatched by a twat in an XR3i.
It had been making a funny clicking and metal flexing sound which I duly ignored and in the true spirit of ignoring something annoying, it went away. The frame made no further noises for about three weeks and then it all went very wonky indeed.
I looked like Abdujaparov after "that" sprint in Paris and was still picking bit of tarmac out of my extremities a week later.