Check what happens when you rip over a 4 x 2 at 100+
This happened to a mate on a ride today.
There's just cause for travelling with a spare pair of jocks for just such occasions. The rider, in this case managed to keep control of the bike and pull it up, which is pretty incredible.
I've tried several times to post a second picture of a close up of the damage, but the photo uploader just duplicates the same pic each time (cache bug?). The bike in the centre of the photo is the one damaged - top of the front rim to the right of the fork you can see that a new rim is in order.
oneup, you sound like a luck guy to go riding with
You're right about tying stuff down though. A mate and I had a mattress blow off the roof of a car on the freeway in Perth, which we managed to manoeuvre around. It's that kind of thing that makes me dislike riding behind people and trucks with (apparently) secured loads. I'm certain people don't think about bikes and that losing an item can mean the death of a rider.
Ozymax, these guys were riding to meet myself and a few others, so I didn't see what happened. The other boys that were there told me he was in the middle of the group, so perhaps given their riding pattern he didn't have time to get out of the way before he saw it, or even noticed other bikes move. Something to be said for keeping some distance. One of the boys behind him said that the poor bloke was launched off his seat, and doesn't know how he managed to keep it upright, given the speed they were going.
that rim is totalled, as you said. I'm trying o upload another photo of it, but this thread keeps sticking the same photo in the post. I'll work on that.
To to add injury to insult, the guy was also stung by a bee and suffered an anaphylactic reaction and had to be taken to hospital :/
