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Originally Posted by patentcad
There are seams between pavement sections on the road that will swallow a 23c tire and turn your racing bike into a slot car that is doomed to crash. Watch out for those.
my buddy hit one of those on the Pulaski bridge, went from 22mph to 0mph in an instant, flipped over and - yup, completely ****ed up his collarbone.

the worst part about that was that it was his third or fourth day riding after recovering from another injury.

the other broken collarbone.
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