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My Pinarello project frame came off my pannier rack on the way to the painters, making a heart-wrenching KALANG KNGKNG. It happened on the roundabout in the middle of Eastleigh, a hectic low-income neighbourhood of Nairobi. Apparently the road engineers levelled the tarmac using a swimming pool wave machine, and I lost a rack bolt and several cable ties. The frame was seemingly undamaged thanks to some clever chaps 20 years ago in Treviso, and also thanks to the alert braking of a bus driver.
I stood in the centre of the roundabout (near a couple of police officers) and faffed for a full 10 minutes with no success in reattaching the frame. A friendly man turned up and helped me, and also dissuaded a shifty looking teenager from robbing me. So many friendly Kenyans, it makes up for the thugs. The frame got to the painters in the end. See project thread.