Super fun ride by myself from the Bloomington Ferry bridge to Nine Mile Creek on Saturday. A couple miles before the finish I hit this easy seeming log crossing hard as if to do a tiny sort of jump over it. At the peak while feeling weightless came a bad sound. I came to a stop with the rear wheel out of the fork ends and the disc rotor bent badly. I needed to put all my weight on it to straighten it enough to have it not hit the frame. I had no idea how strong with great metal memory these rotors are. I didn't have a tool to take off the rotor so I pulled the whole brake off to ride to the car.
Including me there were13 people on the trail ridding with 7 being on fat bikes. Lots of shinny new Mukluks out and about. With the exception of One on One yesterday the other bike shops I have recently been in I have seen other people coming in to buy fat bikes and fat bike supplies. Angry Catfish, Hollywood Cycles, Eden Prairie Eric's and the new Eden Prairie Freewheel. Sadly I missed out on the Midtown freewheel winter bike expo day and the Moonlander test ride at Hiawatha last weekend.
It is a fat world and I suddenly fit right in.
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Way to ride hard-break shit! Sweet.
And you guys always give me shit about over-tightening my skewers, see what can happen?... See...
That's funny Q. Your skewer habits were one of the first things I thought of after it happened. I don't know how it happened and a loose skewer is the most likely reason. When it happened it felt and sounded like a big piece of wood got in the spokes and ripped the wheel out.
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