bustedcarbon.com

Marko1962
Marko1962 Posts: 320
edited May 2009 in The bottom bracket
I have found a brilliant blog over at http://www.bustedcarbon.com/ as you can guess its all about carbon bikes that come a cropper, I don't know if Im being a bit childish but seeing someone at the side of the road looking down at a broken crank arm still attached to his cleat had me in a fit of giggles, it's not funny really but it is :lol: :oops:

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On your tea break this blog is well worth a browse...

Comments

  • DomPro
    DomPro Posts: 321
    Nice find Marko ! Makes me feel better about my Alu frame.
    Shazam !!
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Guess that says something for metal. Seems like carbon things that break do so with a bit
    more finality than metal. Or is it that they just look worse when they break?
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    DomPro wrote:
    Nice find Marko ! Makes me feel better about my Alu frame.

    Don't forget their "No Carbon Wednesday" feature, though, reminding us that all frame materials have a bad day at the office now & then.....

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Damn, you've discovered the source of all the recent pictures of broken bikes I've been posting :(
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,558
    DomPro wrote:
    Nice find Marko ! Makes me feel better about my Alu frame.
    I wouldn't. Components and frames break, regardless of the material they're made from. This site could easily have a rival called www.bustedalloy.com which would probably have more source material to work with.
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    I think I still have some pics of my old Fairfax that busted along the chain stays last year. Hit a pothole and CRACK.
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    Marko1962 wrote:
    I have found a brilliant blog over at http://www.bustedcarbon.com/ as you can guess its all about carbon bikes that come a cropper, I don't know if Im being a bit childish but seeing someone at the side of the road looking down at a broken crank arm still attached to his cleat had me in a fit of giggles, it's not funny really but it is :lol: :oops:

    2_14g.jpg

    On your tea break this blog is well worth a browse...

    Interesting picture, was out on a club ride a few weeks ago when one of the group wobbled across the road with, you guessed it, a crank arm attatched to his foot! We all said the same thing 'Never seen that before'
  • mercsport
    mercsport Posts: 664
    That picture reminds me of the times , in the last couple of decades , where I've been helpless at the side of the road with broken bikes cheerfully waving to passing fellow cyclists who blithely ignore my plight as they pedal on , or , at best , give a perfunctory nod . I seem to recollect - in an age long ago - when most any pedaller would've stopped to see if they could lend a hand .

    Fortunately I wear spd'd mtb shoes so walking home isn't so painful .

    Here - to recycle a previously posted pic' of mine - is a pic' of my last breakage , a ti ' frame , upon which I managed to cycle , panniered up , 30 + miles out of the Brecons to Mumbles :

    RaleighTiBreakDowntube27-04-07_1632.jpg
    "Lick My Decals Off, Baby"
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    mercsport wrote:
    That picture reminds me of the times , in the last couple of decades , where I've been helpless at the side of the road with broken bikes cheerfully waving to passing fellow cyclists who blithely ignore my plight as they pedal on , or , at best , give a perfunctory nod . I seem to recollect - in an age long ago - when most any pedaller would've stopped to see if they could lend a hand .

    Fortunately I wear spd'd mtb shoes so walking home isn't so painful .

    Here - to recycle a previously posted pic' of mine - is a pic' of my last breakage , a ti ' frame , upon which I managed to cycle , panniered up , 30 + miles out of the Brecons to Mumbles :

    RaleighTiBreakDowntube27-04-07_1632.jpg

    I think there was one like that in the CTC mag. The guy used 3 cheap spanners and 4 cable ties to hold his frame in the same way and completed his journey on it.