Why do I have so much bad luck?
redddraggon
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Just after Christmas, during the windy patch we had, I ran cycled over a branch, knackering my rear dérailleur. So I changed the dérailleur about 6 weeks ago, along with the chain.
On Tuesday coming back from work, I thought it was struggling to shift to the big ring, but I carried on pedalling anyway. Eventually the pedals stopped turning, so I looked down and found the chain wrapped around the crank. Unfortunately the KMC quick link was hidden within the coil around the crank, and I didn't have my chain tool with me. So I was left with trying to pull the chain over the crank. Doing this I've knackered the rear dérailleur and been left with a twisted chain. Thankfully it's Sora, and not Centaur, so replacing the chain and dérailleur will only cost me £20, rather than the £100 it would have cost with my other bike.
And then to make matters worse last night, I was shortening the cables on my good bike, and went and cut the rear brake cable outer an inch too short.
What can go wrong next?
On Tuesday coming back from work, I thought it was struggling to shift to the big ring, but I carried on pedalling anyway. Eventually the pedals stopped turning, so I looked down and found the chain wrapped around the crank. Unfortunately the KMC quick link was hidden within the coil around the crank, and I didn't have my chain tool with me. So I was left with trying to pull the chain over the crank. Doing this I've knackered the rear dérailleur and been left with a twisted chain. Thankfully it's Sora, and not Centaur, so replacing the chain and dérailleur will only cost me £20, rather than the £100 it would have cost with my other bike.
And then to make matters worse last night, I was shortening the cables on my good bike, and went and cut the rear brake cable outer an inch too short.
What can go wrong next?
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count yourself lucky it's only mechanicals. I don't think I've managed an 8 week period without a lay-off for an injury since August 20060
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Sounds a lot like you're making your own luck!0
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redddraggon wrote:....................
And then to make matters worse last night, I was shortening the cables on my good bike, and went and cut the rear brake cable outer an inch too short.
What can go wrong next?
Sometimes the more you try to makes things just right the more they go wrong .
I've found for things that don't really matter it's better to chill and go with the flow .Luke0 -
Well they say things happen in 3's, you've had your 3 now...
Happy Days ahead....0 -
I lost my front light into the front (bladed) spokes last night at 35 mph ish fast desent. Luckily the wheels shatterede the light and accident avoided. Light was a mess though and I'd only gone 2 miles of a 20 mile loop, all fired up for a first hard session after a months layoff...
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Why are you unlucky? It's part of the human condition, I'm afraid. $hit happens.
GeoffOld cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster0 -
there is a physcological theory that basically goes you get in what you put out....
e.g. If you think about the bad luck, and the bad things that happen, then you notice them more. If you think about the good luck and the good things then you notice them more. In this way, we perceive ourselves to be either lucky or unlucky, and goes a little towards explaining the makes your own luck thing.
Remember.....David Eick though he was the son of god by the little things...e.g. when he pulled into a supermarket carpark which was full, and a car pulls out of a space just in front of him.....
The last thing you would want is to be wearing a purple jumpsuit on daytime tv explaining why you've got two wives!Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells.0 -
Argh.....
Guess what's just happened.....The fixing on my Cateye Single shot plus has just died. This is the bit on the light itself, not the handlebar mount. So it's the £70 light bust.
I think it just rattled to pieces. It came off on a climb on the way back from work, but somehow I managed to catch it before it dropped to the floor. I didn't have my rucksack wiith me either, so my back pockets were rammed.
Off to contact Wiggle now.....0 -
Ok so bang goes my 'Things happen in 3's theory'
Best not cross the road near any buses tonight hey......0 -
Mog Uk wrote:Ok so bang goes my 'Things happen in 3's theory'
Best not cross the road near any buses tonight hey......
Hopefully that was the 3rd thing. I don't really count hitting the branch as one of the three (it was an isolated incident), I was just a bit peeved that I had damaged a rather new mech and chain (which were there because of the branch) on Tuesday.0 -
Stop believing in 'luck?' Who knows?0
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Could be bad karma from a previous life coming back to haunt you. Could also be bad
karma from this life. Maybe as a child you abused a bicycle. You know, skidding the
tires, not oiling the chain, just letting the bike fall over in the gravel instead of using the
kickstand, leaving it outside at night. Maybe a sacrfice to the cycling gods would help.
Although I'm not sure what to sacrifice.
Dennis Noward0 -
Sacrifice an old pair of Schwinn pedals, or call the Karma god and ask. 'Be a shame to rot in (where ever) for not knowing. What dennis said.0
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redddraggon wrote:Argh.....
Guess what's just happened.....The fixing on my Cateye Single shot plus has just died. This is the bit on the light itself, not the handlebar mount. So it's the £70 light bust.
I think it just rattled to pieces. It came off on a climb on the way back from work, but somehow I managed to catch it before it dropped to the floor. I didn't have my rucksack wiith me either, so my back pockets were rammed.
Off to contact Wiggle now.....
Cateye lights have a 12mth guarantee - perhaps you could get a replacement from them.0
