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Leviathan wrote:
I’ve also got a Ribble Sportive racing (yes the name is an oxymoron who wants a flame war…) last summer and am very disappappointed with the build quality. No cracks as far as I know. The wheels lost three spokes within a couple of months (I’ve never ever had a broken spoke before.) and the bottome bracket now sounds like a Aztec rain stick [Ribbles own pressfit] and the front fork is a bit loose. The guy at Evans made sucky teeth faces like a car mechanic and implied it would explode if I rode it. I promptly rode it home at a mahoosive 20kph. Commute only until I can get it serviced.
Spokes do break. You can tighten your headset with an allen key.
One bike shop will diss the product of another.
For the time being – write
For the time being – write down everytthing you can about the accident and tally the damage with photos of the clothing bike and helmet etc.
Photograph your bruises and injuries.
Make contact with BC – you seem to have some kind of membership ?
Failing that – go with Bikeline.
I’d not consider doing it myself. The other insurance company isnt there to pay you your fair share.
No love for DHB?
No love for DHB?Much better quality than the Castelli kit I’ve had and i prefer their winter kit to the prestigious assos winter jacket too.
Plenty of options there.
Buy them if you want and dont
Buy them if you want and dont worry what strangers on the internet sayRim brakes have been fine for
Rim brakes have been fine for decades and are a doddle to sort out. Discs – can be a nightmare.
There’s no standard in them either so you may jump to the wrong spec ? Through axles are a pain for bike stands, turbos and bike racks.
Stick with rim brakes and then your wheels are compatible too.
If you want electronic I’d go Etap over di2. Why switch to batteries PLUS cables ?
So what could you do – track
So what could you do – track it to a house or street ? And then what ? Search warrant for all the likely abodes ?
I’m not convinced.
Your left or my left ?
Your left or my left ?
Jesus christ. Lets hope his
Jesus christ. Lets hope his next crash just takes him out and him alone. With his record he will Surely do it again.If this happened at my work
If this happened at my work they’d want you to report stuff like this. OK so it might cost them £200 or so – but if the next person along breaks a hip or something….
If they let you cycle on that road it should be safe enough to do so.
Heal well.
Was this on their property ?
Was this on their property ? You need the report the incident at least.
I think you would be likely to win if you claimed going fro what you have said, but I’m sure your employer would rather this was taken care off quickly and easily.
Just noticed that you have gone home – so this is a Lost Time Incident now ?
Don’t dismantle the front
Don’t dismantle the front mech. No point really.
You can dismantle the rear mech – taking off the jockey wheels is very easy. Do that to get your kicks and maybe change the jockey wheels if you like. I don’t think I’d go further than that though as I doubt you’d get it back together again.
Have you thought of buying a jigsaw ?
I don’t think people should
I don’t think people should be switching on video in the case of something happening.
Keeping the hands on the bars and focusing on the danger would be my preference.
Ordered a few weeks ago and
Ordered a few weeks ago and stuff turned up within three days or so.
Mail order always gets busy and chaotic near Xmas for every supplier.
one ride I did I was treated like a pariah at the coffee break – the younger riders all had good handling skills, would go through and off briskly, and happily ride two abreast and chat. The “old skool” riders really didn’t appreciate it one bit – they would sit at the front for 5 minutes and slow the whole group down – looking back I guess they were less used to crashes and possibly afraid of breaking a hip or something!Crashes on the club run are to be avoided. If as you say the youngsters had great skills – why did they crash more ? I’m voting for the elders.
If the youngsters want a faster crashier club run – go off by yourselves. The NHS is quite good these days.
This was not a club run, just a one off group ride to see a tour de france time trial stage from a hotel in France. The older, more experienced members of the group seemed overcautious to me.
Obviously it was not a case of wanting a crashier ride, but of having crashed in general – the younger members of the group were far more relaxed, more confident riders, and the older members tried to take charge and impose their own overcautious approach on the entire group.
So was it your club or not ? And were the older riders newly hatched Mamils or veteran cyclists ? As far as I know – crashing hasn’t been invented recently and the older riders are probably just wiser.
If the pace was too slow – why didn’t you just tell them you wanted to get there a bit quicker and go up the road ?
And was overcautious just ‘riding a bit slower than you like’ ?
More questions than answers I’m afraid !
one ride I did I was treated like a pariah at the coffee break – the younger riders all had good handling skills, would go through and off briskly, and happily ride two abreast and chat. The “old skool” riders really didn’t appreciate it one bit – they would sit at the front for 5 minutes and slow the whole group down – looking back I guess they were less used to crashes and possibly afraid of breaking a hip or something!Crashes on the club run are to be avoided. If as you say the youngsters had great skills – why did they crash more ? I’m voting for the elders.
If the youngsters want a faster crashier club run – go off by yourselves. The NHS is quite good these days.
