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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 |
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Damn - sometimes I hate my dual crown fork:-(
"Nelson Binch" wrote in message ... 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 |
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