| Re: My 'Bent Is Starting to Annoy Me
Prisoner at War wrote:
> Okay, so I've been putting through my HP Velo SMGTe through all kinds
> of conditions around town for almost a year now. After all the
> potholes, rain, mud, grit, heat and cold I finally managed to really
> **** it up Sunday. A chainring got bent slightly, and eventually the
> chain itself broke and messed up some drivetrain components in the
> process!
>
> I only wonder how folks manage to take this model 'bent on them Third
> World tours if I'm having issues with it from simply riding around
> town! From the beginning the rear air shock suddenly stopped working.
> In another two weeks I managed to shred the top teflon tube somehow.
> Then the front disc brake rotor became permanently warped. Then the
> back ones. Did I mention the rear mudguard cracking in two? Sunday,
> about the whole drivetrain came undone: broken chain, a bent chainring,
> the idler spring clamp kaputt. Interestingly, the Thracian wheelset
> has held up just fine, AFAIK.
>
Gremlins. You've got gremlins on your ****.
Something about bents attracts them. Good luck.
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