Broken Retro thread....what have you broken?

[nporternz]

Intense M3 down a black run - frame removed itself from its headtube and i looked down saw daylight where there should have been metal.....then looked up and saw tree where there should have been path

broken wrist too!!

 

[RockiMtn]

trashed Mavic 231 rim on the rear, ripped the Ritchey Megabite Z-MAX WCS on it, dented my Specialized Sub6 helmet and f'k up my back for a good month.

other than that everything else on my Cirrus survived the crash down the hill to this day.

 

[stuflyer]

Stuff I broke:
Er nothing apart from helmets. I must be a complete wuss.
Stuff broken by motorist running me over? Front wheel (Araya RM17 on LX Hub) and a Specialized Future Shock Fork.
Stuff I saw broken while working in a shop?
Everything.
Any amount of forks bent backwards while "just Riding Along" (we had a JRA box for stuff like this)
A Raleigh activator (and it's rider) In a right state 'cos he fitted a qr front wheel on the flexiest fork known to mankind.
Any amount of broken Peugeots - mostly parting company at the seat stay/ Seat Tube junction.
A Raleigh Summit - you know the first Raleigh that came with proper Rock Shox - bent to buggery and back.
The guy came in, bandaged up carrying this wreck and I thought "Oh god, he's going to sue us" and he just hobbled up and dropped it on the floor and said "I need a new bike."

I expressed my dismay and that I hoped he was ok, quaking inwardly, and he said:
"Yeah, I was hammering down a hill watching the fork go up and down and I didn't see the tree."

Priceless.

 

[dirtjumper_dmr]

many many wheels back in the '90s riding downhill on rigid bikes and my friend's 1990ish Carrera Krakatoa by riding it down a huge flight of concrete steps very fast
also one Manitou Stance Static jump fork, blew them on a (not that) heavy landing, oil from the fluid-flow damping everywhere - Manipoo

 

[Crayons]

"Yeah, I was hammering down a hill watching the fork go up and down and I didn't see the tree."

How many of us did that the first time we got bouncy forks??

I remember crashing into a gate on the first after my mate bought some Mag 20s. I was caught in a trance-like state by watching those forks bouncing up and down next to me.

Fortunately didn't break anything though.

 

[kanerdog1x1]

ive broken numerous lp26's and then found un51/2/3. hallelujah!
cleaning my bike just recently and found 10 cracks in my raceface turbines, gutted!
ripped a xt737 rear mech clean off the cove back in the summer. then ripped the xt shadow replacement clean off last week.
numerous chains, both cheap and posh, and many spokes.

 

[sq225917]

3 cannondales
1 dave yates
1orange O
And atrek 5200 road bike

 

[LongboardSi]

Not many frame killers on here then? quote]

in order:

1x Cannondale M700 frame (Cannondal europe claimed never to have received it when I sent it back to them and shop had no returns number... :evil: )
1x Proflex 855
1x no name cromo steel frame (built as a jump bike, before they really existed much...about a year or so - had it gussetted and re-welded)
2x original GT sts (16" - both about 2 weeks old)
1x Club Roost VCV or something (fs Frame anyway - 3 weeks old)
1x Mango speccy M2 (built as a jump bike - about 9 months, but it take some real hammer in that time...)
1X specialized FSR Elite (the origional red max-backbone one)
1x Specialized Palmer replica DH frame
1x Specialized M4 Roadbike frame (about 2 months back, but it was 7+ yrs old and got regular hammer ona 30 mile commute on sheffield roads, and ridden right through the winter.)

that's 10 so far...

 

[barry2017]

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[barry2017]

Stuff I broke:
2 rear mechs - Exage, 400LX
1 front mech - 400LX
I bent 2 chainsets, 1 of which was steel :shock:
GB randonneur bars - these turned from silver to a sort of crazed white on a long ride once, very weird.
1 quill stem on a cheapo Raleigh road bike (going downhill at 35mph):shock:
Puegeot alpine rigid forks (not rigid enough)
On-one gimp saddle
and most recently and sadly, my 1987 Puegeot Alpine. I know it's not a "quality" frame, but it was my first proper bike and we shared a lot of adventures together. It had suffered many spills, and when I started riding it one day I noticed the top tube had bent.