On my first race with my new Funk BITD, RS1, Campag, White Porcs, Mavics, etc I was running in the top ten at the time and had to go wide round a left hand bend in the woods due to my speed and as I went through a pile of leaves hit an small tree stump. The back wheel immediately locked up. I had bent and twisted the Centaur rear mech, ripped it out the frame stripping the thread, bent the drop out, twisted the Rohloff chain 90 degrees and snapped it and buckled the wheel to the point of it locking against the frame. Man was I gutted, I couldn't believe it. I had spent so much time working, saving and building this bike and this was pretty much it's first outing and I had never damaged anything like this before.
So I picked it and ran the rest of the race best I could fighting off the disappointment and tears! Finished nearly fortieth in the end.
I still have it and I do hope in this case history won't repeat itself!
My Funk build is here.
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So I picked it and ran the rest of the race best I could fighting off the disappointment and tears! Finished nearly fortieth in the end.
I still have it and I do hope in this case history won't repeat itself!
My Funk build is here.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=165771