Bike destroyers tell your story here...

Ouchie. That sucks just a little. Sorry to hear about the frame AND forks. This is the reason I kept my front brake - I don't trust myself without it.

sounds traumatic Charco, and btw, did u use that 15t sprocket in the end ? did it work ?

yeah it was perfect, i owe you a drink if you come south of the river.

I decided to try go down a VERY steep hill brakeless

Mistake number 1...

using a 78.6 gear inch ratio

Mistake number 2...

(only been riding brakeless for 2 weeks)

Hat-trick!

Glad you're OK.

I know, was a terrible decision

I've been fine riding breakless on the gear ratio, infact I love it, just perfect in my opinion.

After the accident I bent my forks back so I could cycle home, but they're still quite straight, had another go at bending them and bent them somewhat back into shape, I'm afraid that they may snap though.

Is it any better that the frame is bent downwards rather than upwards :P

After the accident*** I bent my forks back*** so I could cycle home, but they're still quite straight, had another go at bending them and bent them somewhat back into shape, I'm afraid that they may snap though.

Would'nt advise this myself.
I did this to a old 3-speed wreck, I used to ride to uni, after a slight tussle with a cab.
Then one day I tried to bunny hopp a curb to avoid a cab, and clipped the front wheel. Both forks snapped, and needless to say, I crashed.

yeah it was perfect, i owe you a drink if you come south of the river.

im going to have to do that.

Some of you may have seen a pink vivalo bike in the porn thread, the anti-porn thread and the epic fail one too i believe, some of you may not.
But the owner of the bike got hit by a car the other day making his lovely vivalo go snappy snappy. These things bring tears to my eyes.

furthermore, it took him 2 years and he only properly finished it just now, and then this :'(
the forks bent in the steerer as well

plays slidewhistle

Back when I did lots of MTB and trials I managed to:

• Split a Mavic D521 CD along both sides, about 1/4 the way round the rim.
  
• Snap a crank clean off landing a jump, other foot slipped off the pedal and had all my weight on one crank.
  
• Learned front wheel pogo's. Managed to go too far over the front, hopped, which forced the forks all the way backwards and split the headtube completely down the front.
  
• 5 or 6 freewheels broken.
  

I went one step up this weekend. I managed to snap 3 of the 4 arms on my cranks. They're the bits that hold your chainring on, which is needless to say that they're rather important and could do with staying attached to the rest of the crank arm!

I was about 10miles from home on a ride with my dad when I noticed my chainring was bending from side to side rather a lot, which worried. So I stopped to tighten up my chainring bolts (which is usually the problem and is sorted in no time) only to find that they're all tight and are not the problem. I then noticed that the chainring bolt arms had sheared just below where the bolts go into them. I then had to limp back the 10 miles home following my dad and trying to stay in his slip stream as much as possible!

I think it's time for a recount.

Since moving to London in October I have broken/snapped/destroyed:

1 Peugeot frame
1 Peugeot rear wheel (axle snapped)
couple of chains
1 road conversion frame of unknown make (snapped chainstay)
couple of sets of cheapish cranks
countless tyres!
Charge Plug forks
a seat
and now some decent mtb cranks

Overall it means I'm onto my 4th bike and probably enough parts to make up another 4!

dear oh dear Phil, you earned your user name mate!

Cheers james. Fancy lending me your Profiles?!

Lots of fun stories to read here, glad nobody gets really hurt after crashes though! =)

I haven't destroyed a lot of bikes, but I had a couple of close calls and one bent fork/frame!
The bent fork and frame I've already posted about, my stupidity led me to put my foot on the FRONT wheel when my chain slipped while going downhill. I flew over the handlebars and my front fork and both top and down tube of my frame got bent..!

On the same bike, before that crash, I was going downhill and spinning like crazy when one of my crankarms suddenly fell off.
Needless to say I freaked out, but managed to slow down abit with the other foot which was still attached to the bike, but there was an intersection coming so I rode straight into the nearest bush. Some scratches etc, but nothing serious with neither me nor the bike..

BD, how did your BMX do on Sunday? Need for a rebuild? ;P

Hi Oliver,

The race was good on Sunday. My BMX is amazingly strong and is about the only bike I don't generally break! It also helped me get 2nd place and win me £100 Howies voucher :-)

Rather than offering a rebuild on the BMX feel free to offer me a road bike. I'm getting the itch to go do some long distances and hills without dying too quickly.

Rather than offering a rebuild on the BMX feel free to offer me a road bike. I'm getting the itch to go do some long distances and hills without dying too quickly.

Ah, excellent, erm. Just give me a couple of BMXs and I'll re-configure the tubes slightly to make a road bike. ;)

Thought people might be interested in this story...and also, I'd be interested to learn if anyone else has had this happen...

Was riding up a steep hill, was very near the top, so was going very slow...

The axle (is that what it's referred to as?) On my left pedal just snapped clean off...

My shin clipped it and took a nice 5cm chunk of skin as I went down onto my left knee, pulled my bars round, fell into my wheel which buckled and forced my forks apart under my weight...

Currently on the hunt for new wheelset, forks and pedals...funnily enough. Hahah.

Sweet.

Hippy!

Did the bb snap? Were they square taper cranks? Glad you are ok though.

Hippy!

Apologies.
I did search...I'm on my phone.
Please delete the thread for me.

:(

Thought people might be interested in this story...and also, I'd be interested to learn if anyone else has had this happen...

Was riding up a steep hill, was very near the top, so was going very slow...

The axle (is that what it's referred to as?) On my left pedal just snapped clean off...

My shin clipped it and took a nice 5cm chunk of skin as I went down onto my left knee, pulled my bars round, fell into my wheel which buckled and forced my forks apart under my weight...

Currently on the hunt for new wheelset, forks and pedals...funnily enough. Hahah.

Sweet.

Frank Spencer?

Oooooo Bettie.

I'm not quite sure how I managed to do this. Was just riding off from the lights (giving it some so I could get to a bottleneck before the cars) and felt something go. Thought I must have broken a spoke. Was gobsmacked to see that i had snapped my seat tube. RIP.

Looks like rot

Rip