Bikewolf

Almost lost some extra weight today: side (kick)stand failure. First time.

Taken any failure or damage you?

noglider 

My rim broke. I have a replacement rim and hub, and I have to make measurements so I can build a new rear wheel. In the meantime, I have other bikes I can ride.

Gresp15C

During the winter, it was about -15 F out, and I had a dentist appointment, so I rode. When I parked my bike, I went to stretch out my cable lock, and the entire vinyl covering of the cable shattered into pieces.

acidfast7

ran over by van is last failure

medic75

Last repair was when I took my gravel bike out of storage earlier this spring & found that the front brakes didn't work. They made all kinds of noise, but didn't do what they were supposed to do. LBS said he has seen this several times with Shimano's road bike disk brakes.

mcours2006

While attempting to pull out the square taper crank on a 1980's steel bike the tool was not seated tightly, so I ended up stripping the threads. With no apparent other options I took a hacksaw to it, but halfway through I decided to give the removal tool a second go. It worked, thankfully, cause I don't know if the hack saw would have worked, and even if it did it might have damaged to BB shell.

pdlamb

R&R of the rear rim, brake track was worn badly. Coupled that with putting new brake pads on, even though they weren't (quite) worn out. I'm keeping an eye on the front rim; my lovely daughter got me an extra when I asked for one for Christmas.

rumrunn6

I need to tweak a limit screw on my MTB cuz sometimes, under high torque, the front derailer, when on the smallest chain ring, will rub the rear tire a tiny bit. but only in one spot, due to those tires having a slight tire wobble, even tho the wheels are true. & even tho I massage those tires as best I can while mounting them. my work-around has been applying pressure on the shifter, in those situations, to move it away a tiny bit, but that's not the right solution

justsaymint

Broken rear axle... somehow the qr skewer kept everything together and I made it home without even knowing the axle was broken!

2bridges1bike

Needed to get my front wheel trued. Kept rubbin against my brake pad

Skipjacks

I had to replace my low grade crank and cassette. Both were nearly worn down to nubs.

robertorolfo

Little reflector fell off of my left pedal (yeah, my pedals had reflectors mounted on them). It's cohort had fallen off of my right pedal last year, and although I retrieved it I never remounted it, so I just turned around and watched this one bounce down the street, allowing it to die a glorious death of being run over by a million taxi tires. It had served faithfully for 36 years, so I think it was time.

Archwhorides 

Nasty pothole busted spoke, I was sure the rim cracked (it didn’t)

cyccommute 

Before you get out the hacksaw, get a pickle fork. Put it behind the crank and hit it will a hammer a few times. It will wedge off the crank and is a whole lot easier than sawing through harden metal.

subgrade

Fell over and bent the rear derailleur hanger last weekend; it broke as I tried to bend it back. Replaced with a new one, re-adjusted the derailleur, now everything's running well again.

fietsbob

One day I had a pedal fall off because the threads in the cast crank arm just went away ..

I had a proper forged crank arm set to put on in it's place, at home..


next..


Found a better V brake , TRP.., for front.. Though, It was not compatible on the back ..


so I left the tektro on the rear.. OEM pick ..




....

Korina

My right cheap stock pedal started to self destruct, so I got to replace them with much nicer, but inexpensive iSSi Thumps. Blue ones.

rumrunn6

blue pedals are cool

pdlamb

Obviously I need to start paying more attention to my bikes. Just this week found out I'd neglected a chain too long. New chainrings, cassette, and chain -- those add up to a lot more than 3 extra chains would have cost!

But I just put a new chain on last spring...

rhm

4:45 this morning pulled a bike out of the shed, and found the rear tire was flat. Transferred the tool bag to another bike (which took about five minutes) and rode to the station... train was already there. I opened my locker, put the bike in, put my helmet in, closed the door, and turned around to see the train leaving the station.

Andy_K 

It's been a while since I had any mechanical problem other than a flat tire on my commute. My latest mechanical failure while riding a bike, however, came a couple of weeks ago when I was riding my 1969 Raleigh Competition on some rural roads near Mt. Hood. About six miles into the ride, and so six miles from the nearest town, a spring broke in my old SunTour rear derailleur causing me to lose all chain tension. It was an odd experience. Looking down, I could see that the chain was completely slack like when it's come off the chainrings, but it was still engaged. One of my riding partners figured out a way to fix the rear derailleur in place well enough to let me single-speed it back to my car.

Classtime 

I've been commuting on my Ironman the last two weeks and thinking how smooth, fast and fun it was. Then mid-week, the 19 tooth cog on my 13-24 started feeling and sounding crunchy. Not like it was worn as I couldn't make it skip. I rode it another day trying to remember if I had taken this model FW apart and could replace the cog and wondering if it was worth it since the other cogs were probably near done also. An inspection Thursday night revealed two broken teeth 180 degrees apart. Weird. Replaced the FW on Friday morning and the Ironman rides like the brand new 1500 dollar Italian racer it never was.