Angel over me

I'm not the religious type, but I thank
my angel today - my front skewer went
loose but luckily I heard the wheel
"clicking" side-to-side and stopped to
tighten it after a downhill section.
Luckily the wheel did NOT pop off.

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Zilla said:

I'm not the religious type, but I thank
my angel today - my front skewer went
loose but luckily I heard the wheel
"clicking" side-to-side and stopped to
tighten it after a downhill section.
Luckily the wheel did NOT pop off.

eeeek!

gabrielle

Per Zilla:

Quoted message said:

- my front skewer went
loose but luckily I heard the wheel
"clicking" side-to-side

Happened to me once too. Any idea how it got loose? I've wondered and the
only thing I could come up with was some sort of vibration while it was on the
bike rack behind my vehicle for a couple hours.

*Still* haven't managed to train myself to check it before every ride.
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PeteCresswell

(PeteCresswell) said:

Per Zilla:

Quoted message said:

- my front skewer went
loose but luckily I heard the wheel
"clicking" side-to-side

Happened to me once too. Any idea how it got loose? I've wondered and the
only thing I could come up with was some sort of vibration while it was on the
bike rack behind my vehicle for a couple hours.

*Still* haven't managed to train myself to check it before every ride.

I've had one near miss too. I figured it hooked on something like sage
brush. Scared the [censored] outa' me!

Matt

Sorni said:

Zilla said:

I'm not the religious type, but I thank
my angel today - my front skewer went
loose but luckily I heard the wheel
"clicking" side-to-side and stopped to
tighten it after a downhill section.
Luckily the wheel did NOT pop off.

Got lawyer lips?

Naaah, I think he's tellin' the truth... ;-)

My closest encounter of the flying front wheel kind was when I was
double-checking my front skewer before a ride that almost immediately
runs down a slightly rough 35-40mph hill. Just a little nudge and the
(steel Campy) skewer snapped with a loud pop, ejecting it from both
sides. Yikes.

I did lose a front wheel as a young punk on a buzz bike, doing a
wheelie down a fairly steep grassy hill, but fortunately had the good
sense to bail out before the crash. I've also seen the carnage from
someone who DID lose a front wheel on rough terrain at speed. The
take-away - you don't want to do that.

Glad to hear that you rode it out without injury. Every day for the
next month you wake up feeling good, be extra thankful for that
feeling (you wouldn't had you lost the wheel).

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

Zilla said:

I'm not the religious type, but I thank
my angel today - my front skewer went
loose but luckily I heard the wheel
"clicking" side-to-side and stopped to
tighten it after a downhill section.
Luckily the wheel did NOT pop off.

Nothing to do with angels, a lot to do with `lawyer lugs' on the front
drop-outs specifically designed to prevent this happening.

I can't see losing any wheel front or rear. Its happen to me a few
years back when a vine pulled the QR open. The tire couldn't get pass
the V brake pads. Now if I was riding my disc rig the wheel could and
would drop out and roll off that would be a nightmare.

Per Mark Hickey:

Quoted message said:

Just a little nudge and the
(steel Campy) skewer snapped with a loud pop, ejecting it from both
sides.

Any idea how/why that would happen?

On the past d**sc br*ke ej*ction threads, there seem tb recurrant assertions
that wheels don't come off unless somebody does something really, really wrong.
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PeteCresswell

Wait, are you the _angel_ Gabrielle?

I nominate Gabrielle as the guardian of front wheel mishaps ;-)

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Quoted message said:

Zilla said:

I'm not the religious type, but I thank
my angel today - my front skewer went
loose but luckily I heard the wheel
"clicking" side-to-side and stopped to
tighten it after a downhill section.
Luckily the wheel did NOT pop off.

eeeek!

gabrielle

GWood said:

Wait, are you the _angel_ Gabrielle?

I nominate Gabrielle as the guardian of front wheel mishaps ;-)

Careful now, Gabriel is a man's name and was the angel of Biblical fame,
and Gabrielle is a women's name. Pronounced differently too.

just saving you the trouble, Gab!

Penny

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GWood said:

Wait, are you the _angel_ Gabrielle?

I nominate Gabrielle as the guardian of front wheel mishaps ;-)

Careful now, Gabriel is a man's name and was the angel of Biblical fame,
and Gabrielle is a women's name. Pronounced differently too.

just saving you the trouble, Gab!

Penny

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....she can be my angel though 🙂

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GWood said:

Wait, are you the _angel_ Gabrielle?

I nominate Gabrielle as the guardian of front wheel mishaps ;-)

Careful now, Gabriel is a man's name and was the angel of Biblical
fame, and Gabrielle is a women's name. Pronounced differently too.

just saving you the trouble, Gab!

http://w3.gorge.net/gab/gabrielle.html

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small change said:

Careful now, Gabriel is a man's name and was the angel of Biblical fame,
and Gabrielle is a women's name. Pronounced differently too.

Plus (say it with me) Gabrielle is no angel.

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just saving you the trouble, Gab!

Thanks. 🙂

gab

Zilla said:

...she can be my angel though 🙂

Only if you'll bake me a pie.

gabrielle

(PeteCresswell) said:

Per Mark Hickey:

Quoted message said:

Just a little nudge and the
(steel Campy) skewer snapped with a loud pop, ejecting it from both
sides.

Any idea how/why that would happen?

On the past d**sc br*ke ej*ction threads, there seem tb recurrant assertions
that wheels don't come off unless somebody does something really, really wrong.

In this case, the skewer had ruptured near the base of the threads
(just like a lot of spokes do), that being a natural stress riser. It
showed some signs of a fatigue failure that had been partially "torn"
the material some time before the ultimate failure.

I can only assume that either the skewer was made with an imperfection
(nothing obvious from a casual observation), or that I was
over-tightening it (probably true at least to a point).

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

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Zilla said:

...she can be my angel though 🙂

Only if you'll bake me a pie.

gabrielle

Custard Pie? (Zep fan in me)

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Understood. Slow day and a stretch for a joke. Ooops.

Being from eastern Canada, the phonetic difference was clear to me. Now
that I'm in Oregon, such distinctions are rarely made. My bad.
I owe the cake.

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GWood said:

Wait, are you the _angel_ Gabrielle?

I nominate Gabrielle as the guardian of front wheel mishaps ;-)

Careful now, Gabriel is a man's name and was the angel of Biblical fame,
and Gabrielle is a women's name. Pronounced differently too.

just saving you the trouble, Gab!

Penny

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"GWood" <[email hidden]>

Hey G

is your buddy Bill still in Phoenix? I expected to hear from him last
weekend but notta. Was wondering how his guided tour of McDowell Mnt went.

G - the other one

Hey GeeDubb

I haven't spoken to him directly. I understand he's pulling some long hours
on that installation job.
I finally left him a message with your number when I couldn't get him on his
cell. Hope he got in touch
with you. I spoke with his wife this week and she says he had an excellent
ride on his tour.

I suspect he's there for one more weekend. I'll give him a call tonight if
I can reach him, and ask if
he's planning a ride this weekend.

Cheers
Gary

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"GWood" <[email hidden]>

Hey G

is your buddy Bill still in Phoenix? I expected to hear from him last
weekend but notta. Was wondering how his guided tour of McDowell Mnt

went.

Quoted message said:

G - the other one