Shawn Curry wrote:
> > Someone even once told me not to get on
> >
> >>my bike by standing on a pedal, push with my other foot and throw my leg over the bike because
> >>I'll bend the BB axle. WTF?
> >
> >
> > This very myth just came up in rec.bike.tech a few days ago. Sheldon "the man" Brown had an
> > interesting response:
http://tinyurl.com/yt55s
> >
> > Of course this all seems trivial when I recall watching my bike flip end over end when I bailed
> > out the back during a climb on Slickrock. It survived. I can't imagine how I get on the bike
> > will do more damage than the various abuse I've dished out in general. I ride, I crash. I figure
> > the theoretical **** is better left to the roadies....or the Canadians.
> >
> > Tom
>
> I have munched bikes in crashes, but I'm usually the more damaged one. As for Sheldon Brown's
> comments, the lateral load on the wheels may be high but I've never heard of someone potato
> chipping a wheel getting on while rolling (not that I've done an exhaustive study or anything).
I've never heard of anybody doing such damage on a _mountain_ bike, but have known of examples
involving road bikes.
Road rear wheels are substantially weaker laterally than MTB wheels.
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