ravenmore

Bummer. Sheared one of the cogs on my cassette in half on the bell lap of the crit tonight. Unfortunately it was a very useful gear...

ravenmore

good news is the piece of sh1t Kysrium Elites are still holding up. Haven't been able to kill them...yet. muuuuwaaahhahaaa...*cough, cough* Still need work on the whole evil laugh thing.

Psimet2001 

Awesome.....or not...

wanders

A lesser wheel would have yielded to the cog.

waterrockets 

Did you win?

I broke a cog on an MTB once. Shifting was a little more challenging, but it worked ok, in general.

ravenmore

Teammate of mine won - with the points he got tonight he moved up into the two's. I didn't want to bridge anyone to him of course but I was feeling good when *chunk*. Sorry not meaning to brag or anything - just reminded me of when I cratered a wheel (or two) in races.

I did go to the back of the pack and sort things out during the last lap. Figured out what gears I had left and then spun like crazy. I think I got maybe a top 20? Not sure. Team had a good showing and that's what matters.

waterrockets 

for continuing

Ratfish

This is what happens when you have massive guads. You will learn in time to harness their power.

So, uh...what kinda cassette do you have?

Creakyknees

what the hell? who breaks a cassette cog? what are you doing to that bike? never mind, I don't wanna know.

ezee

Was it an ultra-light, racing use only brand?

ravenmore

It was a Campy - not sure if it was veloce or centaur.

Rutnick

my hat off to you if you destroyed a campy veloce or centaur cog.

I want to see you destroy a red cassette now.

UT_Dude

Hrm. Last night had all sorts of good stories... Broken bikes, broken cogs, broken bones... Even a fist fight!!

I somehow missed seeing you out there. Or maybe I was too entranced with registration to notice. Sorry!

txvintage

Don't ask, don't tell

Is it a bad omen that I have Veloce cassette sitting right in front of me while I contemplate a cog change for riding into gail force winds?

ravenmore

Hey Chris - I saw ya at the registration table actually. You looked pretty busy and I was in a rush to make it to the start line as I was running late, so I just handed my money over and bolted. Heard about the crash when I was at Mellow Johnny's today. Said several bikes were toast? That blows. Didn't hear about the fist fight. Something intrinsically funny about skinny dudes in spandex fighting.

ravenmore

I don't want to see me destroy any more $100+ cassettes personally....

Flatballer

Pics or it didn't happen.

AEO

my hats off to you

ravenmore

Really? ok - bike's at the shop right now or I'd accommodate. They're switching the cassette out manana.

big john

A friend broke a Campy cog while chasing up a hill. The 2 halves fell out and the rest of the cogs flopped around and made it pretty hard to ride. He was standing at the time and almost went down, but saved it.

bostongarden

I think FB might have meant pics of the fight...now you've to stick around after your race and take some pics!!!!!

Quijibo187

there's something very funny about it....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwKaeWkYbqk

Flatballer

Well, those would be fun too, but I meant the cassette. I've never seen a snapped cog, sounds interesting.

ravenmore

Yeah, I need to bring my gear and shoot one night. If I race 2 races though I'm pretty knackered and usually just want dinner, a beer, and bed. Not necessarily in that order.

El Diablo Rojo

Rav I just don't understand how you are doing this to your equipment. No offense but I know a lot guys who I'm sure are putting out way more power or are heavier that are not breaking wheels and drive train bits like you. Honestly I'm puzzled.