Worst case scenario

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Broken stem. Whats the best way of handling this?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/oct05/suntour05/index.php?id=suntour055/KU3L1542b

Use real equipment.

Thanks,

Magilla

The stem looks intact. Did the steerer tube break near the top? Carbon?

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Broken stem. Whats the best way of handling this?

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As I understand it, he has to stay on for 8 seconds for his ride to
count.

DR

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Broken stem. Whats the best way of handling this?
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As I understand it, he has to stay on for 8 seconds for his ride to
count.

But if he pisses himself, it's a 1.3 point deduction.

yowch....

that happened to someone I know this summer. His stem cracked, but
didn't break- he got to the bike shop in time. However, he was riding
down a pretty steep hill. The bolt on the stem was put on too tight and
they replaced the whole thing right then and there. He was pretty
rattled though, from what I heard. Going down that hill, if your stem
broke like that poor guy in the photo--one shudders. The guy in the
photo doesn't seem too badly hurt either- lucky man!

How could he have done any better. It looks like the steerer tube broke
and not the stem.

Great honors to the man for taking it out of the line before crashing
it.

B. Lafferty said:

The stem looks intact. Did the steerer tube break near the top?
Carbon?

The consensus is that it was the carbon steerer tube, not the stem, that
broke. And certainly not the handlebars, which was suggested initially. In
any case, it's not a good situation to find yourself in. Not a lot you can
do to keep it upright. Ow.

Jeff

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Broken stem. Whats the best way of handling this?
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Hey stupid light [censored] is great! Just ask all the people buying it. When
one piece breaks you just buy a different brand and phone your lawyer,
after you get out of the hospital of course. Even 5lbs on the bike
really matters to 80% of the racers out there because they are totally
cut, well trained, and have really developed their skills. None of them
are more than a few grams overweight so it just makes tons of sense to
dump $10-$100/gram to get that weight off the bike with fragile
unobtainium. Of course the bike is only good for 2-3 seasons, but hey
everyone has a team and sponsors to hand them new [censored] right?
There's a place for that stuff, and if people want to buy it-more
power to 'em, but it just doesn't strike me as being very cost
effective.
Nice job by your guys at Coonamesset. 1 & 2 aint too shabby!
Bill C

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Richard Sachs said:

Quoted message said:

Broken stem. Whats the best way of handling this?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/oct05/suntour05/index.php?id=suntour055/KU3L1542b

always listen to the coach:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bobbesrs/detail?.dir=8e6e&.dnm=0f07.jpg&.src=ph
e-RICHIE©T®

Hey stupid light [censored] is great! Just ask all the people buying it. When
one piece breaks you just buy a different brand and phone your lawyer,
after you get out of the hospital of course. Even 5lbs on the bike
really matters to 80% of the racers out there because they are totally
cut, well trained, and have really developed their skills. None of them
are more than a few grams overweight so it just makes tons of sense to
dump $10-$100/gram to get that weight off the bike with fragile
unobtainium. Of course the bike is only good for 2-3 seasons, but hey
everyone has a team and sponsors to hand them new [censored] right?
There's a place for that stuff, and if people want to buy it-more
power to 'em, but it just doesn't strike me as being very cost
effective.
Nice job by your guys at Coonamesset. 1 & 2 aint too shabby!
Bill C

Carbon is for aircraft tail sections and space shuttles; not for bicycles.
:-)

Magilla is dead right about this.

Thanks,

-RJ

On 13 Oct 2005 12:13:24 -0700, "DirtRoadie" <[email hidden]>

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Broken stem. Whats the best way of handling this?

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As I understand it, he has to stay on for 8 seconds for his ride to
count.

POTM

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Broken stem. Whats the best way of handling this?

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/KU3L1542b

Fall down........ Go boom..........

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Bill C

Carbon is for aircraft tail sections and space shuttles; not for bicycles.
:-)

I would rather have my fork fail than the tail section of my Airbus.
Word has it that the new Airbus A380 Super Jumbo has so much carbon
fiber that it is putting the squeeze on the development of a new
Porsche race car.

Bill C said:

Richard Sachs said:

Quoted message said:

Broken stem. Whats the best way of handling this?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2005/oct05/suntour05/index.php?id=suntour055/KU3L1542b

always listen to the coach:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bobbesrs/detail?.dir=8e6e&.dnm=0f07.jpg&.src=ph
e-RICHIE©T®

Hey stupid light [censored] is great! Just ask all the people buying it. When
one piece breaks you just buy a different brand and phone your lawyer,
after you get out of the hospital of course. Even 5lbs on the bike
really matters to 80% of the racers out there because they are totally
cut, well trained, and have really developed their skills. None of them
are more than a few grams overweight so it just makes tons of sense to
dump $10-$100/gram to get that weight off the bike with fragile
unobtainium. Of course the bike is only good for 2-3 seasons, but hey
everyone has a team and sponsors to hand them new [censored] right?
There's a place for that stuff, and if people want to buy it-more
power to 'em, but it just doesn't strike me as being very cost
effective.
Nice job by your guys at Coonamesset. 1 & 2 aint too shabby!
Bill C

What, you don't think it makes sense for racers who are 20 pounds
overweight and have the bike handling skills of a savant to spend an
extra $1,500 to turn their bikes into a paper maché doll?

Taking 50 grams off the bike in a 20 mile crit equates to an extra 7
laps and $25,000 in prize money (assuming you race all the local parking
lots). Just ask the people at Interbike selling carbon fiber bolts at a
950% mark-up.

I have to go now and buy some new rims made out of balsa wood for $34,000.

Take care,

Magilla

MagillaGorilla said:

I have to go now and buy some new rims made out of balsa wood for $34,000

I have some bamboo tracks rim that I'll sell you for $ 33,000. They've
only been a work shop curio for the thirty years I've owned them, and
maybe for some years before that, but they're wood and they're light.
Can't remember the hubs and they have more spokes than what you
probably want, so, what the hell, I'll let you have them for $ 32,999.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...