Just had one of those "bad bike days"....I left my bike locked in town for too long, and when I came to get it I found someone had given it a serious beating - bent rims and spokes, broken cables, you name it. Also, disturbingly, there seems to be a new breed of bike thief; they have evolved the intelligence to use hex wrenches. So they nicked my bar ends (what on Earth is the point of nicking bar ends!?)
Anyway I fixed the bike up and it works reasonably well now (trued the wheels as best I could but they're still a bit wonky). On my first ride on it for ages I hit a gigantic but somehow invisible pothole and got thrown off, skinning much of my right arm and ripping my gorgeous Fizik Arione saddle to shreds! Just one of those days I guess...
Anyway I fixed the bike up and it works reasonably well now (trued the wheels as best I could but they're still a bit wonky). On my first ride on it for ages I hit a gigantic but somehow invisible pothole and got thrown off, skinning much of my right arm and ripping my gorgeous Fizik Arione saddle to shreds! Just one of those days I guess...