Originally Posted by
UCantTouchThis
Well or one, it looks old and beat. Stuff fails. Your spokes look pretty gnarly and the front hug is awfully dirty. Those types of things can be improved upon. So your shop had never suggest a new front wheel or mentioned that maybe it should be cleaned or lubed?
Well I didn't clean the bike up after the crash.
Otherwise they did lube it since I took it in for annual check ups. I have to wonder if you're getting hung up on the visual appearance over the mechanical and structural reliability.
If it was unsafe I would expect these trained techs to tell me so. Since they didn't it was human error that got me here. Mine.