Quick release!

NASTY!!!!

I can only imagine the caption.... "Oh s&%t!"

robalert said:

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Wodge80 said:

NASTY!!!!

I can only imagine the caption.... "Oh s&%t!"

Been there done that.
When I was in working in London after just having done an 11,000km tour around Europe, I had to go the French consulate, to renew my visa so I could move in with my girlfriend in Paris. Anyway I took off from work during my lunch break at full pelt as I only had an hour. I noticed that I was overtaking my front wheel, just before the side of my face smashed into the road. I tore my cheek up and my glasses went through my left ear.

When I had been walking out the door of the pub carying the front wheel as the stairs were narrow the local pisspot Bev said "you wont get far like that".
I stuck my head back around the orner into the pub all dripping in blood and "Bev! You were right!

I've still got the scars to show for it 15 yrs on.

I check my skewers very carefully!

Cheers

Geoff

Back when I did newspaper rounds as a teen I was whizzing through traffic for around an hour. I delivered about a hundred or so newspapers, up and down hills, in and out from between cars and pedestrians. I arrived at the Newsagency with and empty bag and popped up the front wheel to get up the kerb... The front wheel just dropped off and I reportedly went as white as Eminem. The forks had snapped just where the skewer joins and it was only the weight on the front keeping it on.

Luckily I wasn't as fit or fast as I am now. In fact, with all those papers it was mmore of a slow hobble. But it was a near death experience with regard to traffic nonetheless.

Like the other bloke says, the moral of the story is check your bike.

Have never had a wheel come off but I have managed to rip the handlebar stem out of the frame on my bmx when I was a kid. Not pretty when you are attempting to hop over the kerb.

Ouch!

scotty72 said:

Have never had a wheel come off but I have managed to rip the handlebar stem out of the frame on my bmx when I was a kid. Not pretty when you are attempting to hop over the kerb.

Ouch!

I'm assuming you were born in 72' making you 33 years old? That's perfect 'BMX when I was a kid' material. I'm 32now and wanted a BMX as a kid cos all my friends ahd them, but all my mum could afford was an old 'Grifter'. Not cool. Although you could fold the rear mudguard onto the knobbly tyre and it'd sound like a motor, until it wore away.