Damn - sometimes I hate my dual crown fork:-(

I had a nice ride today except from a freak accident on the way home - I
was riding on this flat narrow path (will almost fit two bikes) by a
lake going like 20 mph tops and round the corner comes this other guy
doing about the same towards and we both slam on the brakes just to be
sure. Really trivial except that out of nowhere I end up landing on the
ground on hands, elbows, knees and chest!

Now gone is some of the skin on both elbows and both knees plus I'm
pretty muddy in thoose areas plus chest/stumache and I'm totally puzzled
, the other is in a hurry (to get out of the rain most likely so after
having made sure I'm okay hes off), and look and behold my front wheel
is flat and when investigating it turns out the metal thing with the
valve is totally riped of the tube - explains why I ended on the ground
like that.

So I guess my tube did not stand up to the hard breaking, not that I
hadn't done several long hard ones earlier on the same ride, proberly
due to the tube having moved inside the tire putting a strain on the
mounting of the valve. Seems like I need to check one more thing on my
bike before starting a ride.

Regardless I replace the destroyed tube with my spare and get on the way
only to spin my backwheel miniutes later going up some wet woodden
stairs, stupid me should have know better, banging my hurt right knee
into to the crown of my dual crown Xvert-R (inside it's more like a
Black something due to the magician at my LBS)- and man did that hurt
(it put tears in my eyes). I have only done the knee-crown thing 3 times
before and never on a allready hurt knee and I really like the great
control the stiff fork gives me so I guess it's just letting me know to
watch out:-)

Kind regards

Bruno

"Nelson Binch" wrote in message
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OW OW OW OW OW OW

It could be worse. There were a bunch of folks who put DC style forks on
bikes not built for them that ended up ripping their whole front end off.


Like an XVert Carbon on a Litespeed Tellico? Now who would do something
like that hehe.

Shaun Bell