I bought an American made velomobile called an ELF. It was fun, but expensive and the parent company, Organic Transport went out of business. The ELF velomobile tadpole was about the size of a Mini Cooper, with a solar panel, colored neon mango. I paid $6K. The ELF had lots of mechanical and electrical problems but when you have cutting-edge technology there are bound to be problems.
Albie Robinson I am exactly like you except my mum doesn’t cycle and I’m also 12 and love road biking and I love every cycling thing that’s expensive and looks nice or cool
Yep. Do this one all the time. Only once was bike stolen, My Dads first MTB, back in 1984. But still do it all the time. At grocery store, I make a habit of chatting up security guard, then leave my bike in their charge.
Not even locks work, i remember a friend of mine who went to the convenience store, locked up his dogma outside. His lock was cut with bolt cutters. They found it 3 days later being sold on Facebook though.
In the age of the cordless angle grinder, there is NO lock sufficient. I've been saying for years now, the only way to guarantee your bike is stolen, is to lock it up. This is a true statement. I only shop, dine, drink at establishments that allow me to bring my bike in.
Most expensive cycling mistake: Taking it too seriously too fast and burning myself out, I was so done with it that I almost sold my bike. I still dont ride much (mostly on the trainer), I mainly run now, but I'm trying to get back to the point where I ride for the enjoyment of riding. I do wish I could go back to how much I loved it like 10 years ago.
Had the same problem but here's what helped me: plan a long route with places you want to visit or find interesting, either a full day or a couple of days. Should be challenging but not impossible. Take your time. Go alone (but take your phone and tell people where you are regularly). I can tell you I fell in love with cycling all over again and for different reasons.
@@ProfeTa6 Thank you, that sounds like a wonderful idea. I will look into doing something like that. And I'm glad to hear you found your love for cycling again! :)
Caption Competition: “Drive side not facing the camera, wheels aren’t aligned, gears not in ‘Biggie-Smalls’, and your crank isn’t in the 3 o’clock position. That’s a going to have be a nice from us”- Ollie Bridgewood
When I have a bike on the roof, I attach a red bunting to the bike and have it clipped to the top edge of the front wind screen by a magnet, so that I can se a tell tale sign that there is a bike on the roof.
Most expensive cycling mistake... Overtaking a car on a mountain descent. The very next section caught me out. Rear wheel stepped out, went over the bars at 40mph. Bike went catapulting down a ravine and was a total loss. 26 mile ambulance ride, two hospital stays and a surgery. All in all, should have just let the car lead me down the pass.
Watching that preview on Orla made me think of my own life... I came from being a pro skateboarder to living on the streets suffering from heroin addiction (and other drugs, REALLY down and out) to cleaning up and finding cycling, then becoming a Cat1/2 road racer on an elite team, and a gravel cyclist with bike frame and saddle sponsors. Cycling has DEFINiTLEY changed my life! (I think genetics were on my side as well as my cousin was a world tour pro and my sister was an olympic runner). Now I just need to become national champ so I can make a doc of my life haha!
Obviously getting into cycling :P I'm 21 years old and spent all my hard earned money (I worked for 3 whole years) on my precious bikes, which might be worth more than a car... I refused to move out of my parents house to safe money for my bikes :P But I don't regret it. I love riding my bike(s) every single day. Roadcycling in summer, mountainbiking and turbotrainer in winter. PS: I finally left my parents home a few months ago.
Expensive mistake - Being in the wrong gear on a hill, I push down, don't really go anywhere, and while trying to clip in the other foot I fall sideways....cracking the BB shell on the kerb and writing off the bike.
Most expensive mistake. I stopped at my parents house mid-ride to refill the bottles. I leaned my bike against the garage door. Someone opened the garage door from inside the house. It picked my bike up about 6 feet in the air and dropped it drive side down. Could have been worse. I had to replace the rear derailleur (R7000 105), rear mech hanger, rear thru axle, and the $50.00 bar tape that I had JUST re-done the day before was scuffed and ruined. All things considered I got lucky. Also the someone that opened the garage door from inside the house was me.
My most expensive cycling mistake was starting a bike renovation shop with a friend, who turned out to to be lacking any financial and logical skills. One day he decided to invest all our money in the same spec bike parts. As we were renovating old bikes and we came across many standards, we ended up without the money needed to finish the bikes we had taken from our existing clients. It's a shame as it was great timing to start a bike company and also I lost a good friend in the process. Now I work in IT.
Best part Jessie Cam! Most expensive cycling mistake: using a slide hammer on a 1 inch Carbon steer tube Wound up fork on the floor of the shop... snapped the Dropouts right off. The boss was not happy eating the New replacement ENVE fork...
Dan & Si (Dan gets top billing because of his support for chain guards): In addition to being professional bike riders, you fellows have become professional presenters/journalists/entertainers. I look forward to each week's edition of the GCN Show. Well done!
Most expensive mistake: part one - on an all out sprint effort my rear derailleur pulled out and went into my rear wheel and I went down. It destroyed my wheel, rear derailleur, bent my chain, tore my bibs, Jersey, glove, cracked my helmet, bent my seat post, ripped my saddle and severely scratched my glasses. Not to mention the road rash. Part two - now my derailleur hanger was part of the frame (no dropouts) which was aluminum. It stripped the treads on the frame which I couldn’t afford to replace so a mechanic at a local shop said he could fix it. My mistake was to believe him. About a month after “fixing it” I was doing another sprint and the rear derailleur came out again on the same stretch of road and the result was nearly identical to the first crash. So, not only was I out all the same things from the first crash I had just replaced, I had to bite the bullet and buy a new frame anyway. Oh yeah, road rash on freshly healed rash is not good. Lesson learned the hard way, when it comes to the components near your wheels, don’t try anything bodge worthy.
Borrowed my dad's company car to go riding as mine was in the garage. Put my bike on the roof and drove there with no issues until I got to the car park. No I didn't hit the bike on a height restriction, I wedged the car between the width restriction! My car at the time was a Citroen AX which was nearly 2ft narrower than the BMW 7 Series I was in. The damage wrote the car off, it was 7 weeks old and worth well over £50k. Both front wheels were pushed back a good 3 feet into the front doors and the roof had a crease in it from the force of the landing after the car reared up a good 6 feet according to my mate who was waiting. I may have got used to going into that car park at 30mph in my car a bit too easily. The BMW was only 3 inches too wide so my aim was straight and true to get both wheels equally, something my dad was actually quite impressed by. The granite rocks used to restrict the car park width had very little marks on them, just a bit of metallic blue paint that was still on there for months afterwards.
Watched "Around the world in 80 Days I & II" on GCN+ this week . Super stuff ! Love this and it didn't cost anything extra 'cause I already have Race TV ... but I will admit to crying more then Marc whilst watching his trip
I'd bought locking skewers for my front and rear wheels for my NYC lockup bike. Sadly, I hadn't bought the one for lacking the pressure cap on the Aheadset. Came out of teaching at the Empire State Building to find the entire front end of my bike missing.
Pleased that you briefly mentioned the recent academic study into active travel. This is really important work that contributes to reducing green house gas emissions. As cyclists, particularly those who are able to commute by bike rather than travel by car, we set good examples that hopefully more people will follow.
A few notes on this one. I was finishing up a trainer session on a cold day just as Hack/Bodge started. I thought "Gosh, we haven't seen a good chain keeper in a while". GCN didn't disappoint! LOL! Regarding hack/bodge how do you award "hack" to a cardboard box with duct tape? It was a good idea but not a lot different than cutting up a pair of crocs. Finally, I'd be happy to follow you guys on the app but can see no way to actually search posts by user or search for users. Maybe a quick video would help boost numbers! Until spring see you in Watopia!
I cannot imagine a bike ride getting boring. Tiring? Yes. Borderline exhausting? Absolutely, But nothing about riding a bike is boring. You can always change direction, take a new turn and discover a route you've never taken before, look for a nice view or a new coffee stop. Meet new people. Stop by a different bike shop and see what they have. Even after riding the same routes repeatedly there is always the wind in your face and something new to see, or a new personal challenge to take on. I can never get enough of it.
The chain started to slip on my Bacchetta racing recumbent. I kept pedaling a few turns (big mistake) hoping that the chain would settle in. The derailleur hanger had snapped. The torque of pedaling a few turns pulled the 3 week old Di2 Ultegra RD into two pieces. $400.
Guilty of driving into parking garage with expensive bike on roof 3 times over a 20 year period. The last time sheared new carbon forks in half like a cutting torch. When at the bike shop ordering a new fork, they said not to worry, someone comes in the shop four or five times a week with the same problem. Since then, have never put a bike on the roof of a car. Roof racks should be for team cars only IMO. Once I switched to a hitch receiver type carrier, I noticed that most of my experienced cycling mates weren't using roof racks. Lessons written in times of financial agony :D
Ploughing into the back of a stationary car on my TIME VXRS - totally split where the top tube meets the head tube .... ! I was admiring my average speed and did not see it until I hit the car on the Dorking Road !
My most costly cycling mistake was giving up biking when I bought my first car at 20 years old. It wasn't financially costly but the health loss is too real. Now I'm 47, I'm out of shape and feel like crap. BUT, I have a new bike on order and will get it in a couple months!
best of luck with the training dan. great to see someone training towards a goal, never been good at running and trained for a 20 minute 5k once, needs so much more mental strength than cycling.
You aren't the only one. My riding buddy went to an appointment after a ride. Unexpectedly had to park in an underground garage with a Cannondale Super Six custom on top. Cannondale sold him a new frame at a discount.
I ride the same bike as Si had totalled - I would cry if Dan trashed mine! Sliding that bike on a diesel covered roundabout is probably my most expensive mistake yet - New SRAM red levers, new Zipp skewers, new power meter pedals and new shoes, plus weeks off training as the flesh and skin had to regrow!
Most expensive mistake - entering the 2020 Paris Roubaix challenge sportive. Plane tickets from South Africa, bike hire, and a whole bunch of additional deposits and costs down the tubes. Plus the nagging fear that I might not get another chance to do it...
i'm a hack weekender who for some reason was doing a short sprint day down a small hill. The chain was thrown as i was out of the saddle really hitting it, when I really did hit it; the ground over the bars.. Broke the frame and my collar bone.. a wee bit expensive day....
As part of my Masters I am studying Digital Media Ecosystems and have to write a 3000 word assignment on one. As I'm doing road cycling, I can now watch all GCN content guilt free as it can only be considered as "research"!
Had four bikes on the rook of a BMW 5 series many years ago and an impromptu stop at a car park I went to often never taking any notice of the height restriction. Forgetting I had the bikes on I managed to pull all 4 bikes off still attached to the roof rack bars and carriers. Damaged roof rack bars and scratches on the boot of car. Managed to only damage one brake lever on a bike which ended up all in one piece sitting on the road. Managed to pick the lot up strap it all back on the car and continue journey. Cost to repair bikes minimal damage to car a bit more to fix and respray. Shows how tough the bike actually were.
With the prevalence of electronic group-sets and how easy it is to install drop seat posts, it's probably the way to circumvent the ban on top tube descending. Dan was years in front of the pros when he did a video about it a few years back.
I bought a new trek carbon fibre bike , lost my balance while stopped, fell heavy, tore my rotar cuff , spent $20’000.00 on a surgery and 12 months loss of wages. That was a expensive mistake 😡
my most expensive mistake was not tuning my rear derailleur before getting into a big ride the day after. While we were going up a climb I shifted gears too much and the rear derailleur went straight into the spokes and apparently broke the rear derailleur cage, the chain and the freehub body.
My most costly cyclong mistake was getting into cycling.... 3 months in and 2 bikes and an ebike coming (for the 50°c summers here and rest day commutes). Out $4k already.
Brand new Vittoria tires, mounted on modern 700 rims, absent mindedly installed on a vintage roadbike meant for 27" wheels. My first ride didnt last a city block before brake pads sliced sidewalls and tubes. Fortunately only destroyed front. I turned it into a belt. I like my $85 tire belt though.
Mine was in early 90s. Bought a new GT road bike, purchased a set of second hand uber-expensive aero (for that time) deep alloy rims. Went down a 20% grad8ent dead straight 600m descent to see how they felt. Heard the first ping as a spoke pulled out of the rim, quickly followed by a ping orchestra at both ends, but I wasn't really interested as I was absorbed by the crash I was having. Everything written off. Manufacturers judgement was that the rims hadn't been correctly treated at manufacture. The rims were simply too soft to hold the spokes. Got a new bike, new rims, and grew lots of new skin
My most expensive mistake so far: Last week, i somehow managed to miss the flat section of the kerbstone and wrecked the front wheel for good with the high kerbstone next to it. Had to do a front wheel upgrade to my Rose ProSL way ahead of plan, siiiiigh. I'm not quite sure what happened in that very moment, but i had instant empathy from pedestrians nearby. I even managed to damage the hub, the rim is bent in 2 dimensions. Changed for a DT swiss PR1400 Oxic which is doing fine since yesterday!
Most expensive mistake: first outside ride of the year (cold weather is indoor training time) and after literally just one km tried to jump a curb on my Canyon Speedmax. Apparently my bike handling skills degraded over the winter. Double flatted, ripped the tire and chipped my deep section carbon front wheel
Most expensive cycling mistake: Went for a family walk while a cycling event was on. When we got to the car park lots of cyclists in the car park including two guys next to us towelling off. My wife wanting to avoid all the cyclists drove off across the parking bay opposite and crunch a brand new bike had been set down on the ground right in from of our parked car. I did the decent thing and bought it off the owner for £2000 and then spent £1000 fixing it! But I did get a new bike out of it!
This one wasn't mine, but my buddy leaned his $10k carbon road bike against the back of his pickup and forgot it was there the next morning when he pulled out of the garage... needless to say, it was in a ton of pieces and unfixable, so he had an unplanned NBD.
Mine... I clamped my first carbon frame bike by the top tube instead of seat post 😭 ... Now I know better and thankfully bike shop met me half way on replacement frame
I have driven a bike into my garage. On the roof, two hour drive home, forgot about it. Destroyed the bike rack, only a tiny amount of house paint on the shifters.
Si actually a de-restricted is legal on the road. All you would need is 1) an IVA, 2) number plate, 3) Vehicle Excise Duties, 4) minimum third party insurance and 5) and motorcycle helmet. Or a LEATT Helmet MTB 8.0 V21. As it is motorcycle certified. Plus licence ect.
This was the most passionate Hack/Bodge segment in recent memory. Righteous indignation at labelling a rescue/donation bike a bodge and immediate reflex to categorize a chain keeper as a hack almost reflexly. Well done, gets, well done.
if you live in a humid place, those coasters certainly won't protect your table from rings left by the moisture. 50/50 HACK/BODGE depending on location
That bike tow is a definite hack! I had to help a guy after an accident. He was riding a fixing with a bike on his shoulder. He was headed to the local coop when he crashed. Never heard the final damage, but his should was visibly out of socket and his spine and hip looked pretty jacked up. Anything that works without injury is a hack in my book.
Most expensive mistake was to not properly fasten the bike in the trainer before a Zwiftrace. Managed to rip the bike of the trainer in the final sprint destroying the rear derailleur. Adding insult to injury (literally) was telling my cycling buddies that I couldn’t attend the next group ride because I damaged my bike in a crash... indoors. My wife was sympathetic though: “maybe you should wear a helmet when you are zwifting honey?” But hey, I can live with those insults. Because I have to live with far worse things that have happened in my life; like that time when I asked woman in my neighbourhood when the child was due....I was so certain she was pregnant...well, you cant be right all of the time.
Most expensive mistake - Doing a core workout in my bedroom. Kicked my TT bike (the fastest bike at the 2020 ETU Sprint Duathlon champs) during a set of burpees, for it to fall on to the corner of my bed, cracking the top tube... Carbon repairs are not fun.
Not bolt checking my specialized stumpjumper and completely destroying a £500 wheel when the chain went down the back of the cassette cos the derailer was loose 😭
My « almost » most expensive bike mistake ever was when I strapped my DeVinci Hatchet carbon gravel bike to the hitch rack on my SUV... After a while on the road I realized I couldn’t see my bike anymore in my rearview mirror! In total panic I then stopped on the side of the highway to have a look at the rear of the vehicle... only to see my gravel bike laid on its side, horizontally, not touching the ground, only hanging by the straps that hold the wheels and tires to the rack!!! No damage at all! It looks like I had wrongly attached the top tube of the bike to the rack and it had loosened while on the road. Talk about luck ☘️!
What is your most expensive cycling mistake?
Subscribing to GCN+ after Feb
My dad buying me a dry lube when living in a tropical country
I bought an American made velomobile called an ELF. It was fun, but expensive and the parent company, Organic Transport went out of business. The ELF velomobile tadpole was about the size of a Mini Cooper, with a solar panel, colored neon mango. I paid $6K. The ELF had lots of mechanical and electrical problems but when you have cutting-edge technology there are bound to be problems.
Dont eat while cycling
I know somebody who rode into a bridge twice with a bmx on top
I am 12 and love my road bike I cycle every day that is is also my mum and dads most expensive mistake
NO YOU ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE MISTAKE😁 jk
Same
Albie Robinson I am exactly like you except my mum doesn’t cycle and I’m also 12 and love road biking and I love every cycling thing that’s expensive and looks nice or cool
@@CowneloAlvaroid bro calling him a mistake 😬😂
Just tell them it's cheaper than buying you a car in four years.
Most expensive mistake in cycling: "I don't have a lock, but I'm just running in for a second."
Same one here.
Yep. Do this one all the time. Only once was bike stolen, My Dads first MTB, back in 1984. But still do it all the time. At grocery store, I make a habit of chatting up security guard, then leave my bike in their charge.
Not even locks work, i remember a friend of mine who went to the convenience store, locked up his dogma outside. His lock was cut with bolt cutters.
They found it 3 days later being sold on Facebook though.
In the age of the cordless angle grinder, there is NO lock sufficient. I've been saying for years now, the only way to guarantee your bike is stolen, is to lock it up. This is a true statement. I only shop, dine, drink at establishments that allow me to bring my bike in.
always take the bike into the store or dont go thats what i say
I am absolutely sure (and horrified in equal measure) that my most expensive mistake is still ahead of me...
I'm there...and it horrifies me and is why I don't have a carbon fiber bike.
gives you something to look forward to.
@@stanleyhatfield4902 very true
Yeah, that crash that puts you in the hospital. Still waiting for that one. Hope it never arrives. $$$ and pain. You pay, and then you pay again.
Pulled the seat tube out of my Vitus 979 as a teenager and thought I could just rivet it back together lol. Makes a good wall hanging now though :-)
I love the trance of a long ride. It can get psychedelic. One of the big things that pushed me to endurance riding.
Agree. After a 173km ride last December, I felt high for hours afterwards, and it is an awesome feeling.
Agreed, it's so interesting and it's feeling great when you know you pushed through your own limits and get this beautiful 'runners high'.
Best part of the show was "Jessie Cam" ;-)
Dabadabadabada!
Most expensive cycling mistake: Taking it too seriously too fast and burning myself out, I was so done with it that I almost sold my bike. I still dont ride much (mostly on the trainer), I mainly run now, but I'm trying to get back to the point where I ride for the enjoyment of riding. I do wish I could go back to how much I loved it like 10 years ago.
The best comment, should pinned
@@Panagiotis-Skordilis Thank you, that's very kind of you to say.
Had the same problem but here's what helped me: plan a long route with places you want to visit or find interesting, either a full day or a couple of days. Should be challenging but not impossible. Take your time. Go alone (but take your phone and tell people where you are regularly). I can tell you I fell in love with cycling all over again and for different reasons.
I did exactly the same, my friend. Just cba to get on the bike, which is a shame as I know I’ll love it when I do
@@ProfeTa6 Thank you, that sounds like a wonderful idea. I will look into doing something like that. And I'm glad to hear you found your love for cycling again! :)
16:05 do you mean they don't have the endurance to sign all the books?
“Thursday morning, the day after the night before” - love the insights from Connor.
Caption competition: I wonder, is this really what my coach meant when he said :"In order to win, you sometimes have to dig in deep!"
Caption Competition: “Drive side not facing the camera, wheels aren’t aligned, gears not in ‘Biggie-Smalls’, and your crank isn’t in the 3 o’clock position. That’s a going to have be a nice from us”- Ollie Bridgewood
Dang it! I was gona do this xD haha
When I have a bike on the roof, I attach a red bunting to the bike and have it clipped to the top edge of the front wind screen by a magnet, so that I can se a tell tale sign that there is a bike on the roof.
human: I have bunting, I will never get this wrong
brain: challenge accepted
Petition for Jesse to host the next news show.
I second
Yep. We'll get more sense out of her.
Most expensive cycling mistake... Overtaking a car on a mountain descent. The very next section caught me out. Rear wheel stepped out, went over the bars at 40mph. Bike went catapulting down a ravine and was a total loss. 26 mile ambulance ride, two hospital stays and a surgery. All in all, should have just let the car lead me down the pass.
The awkward moment when Connor’s son has a better idea of lighting than he does 😂
ahaha beginners luck!!! :)
Caption competition “gotta make sure I line up the cranks if I want a super nice and get into the bike vault”
Watching that preview on Orla made me think of my own life... I came from being a pro skateboarder to living on the streets suffering from heroin addiction (and other drugs, REALLY down and out) to cleaning up and finding cycling, then becoming a Cat1/2 road racer on an elite team, and a gravel cyclist with bike frame and saddle sponsors. Cycling has DEFINiTLEY changed my life! (I think genetics were on my side as well as my cousin was a world tour pro and my sister was an olympic runner). Now I just need to become national champ so I can make a doc of my life haha!
Obviously getting into cycling :P
I'm 21 years old and spent all my hard earned money (I worked for 3 whole years) on my precious bikes, which might be worth more than a car... I refused to move out of my parents house to safe money for my bikes :P But I don't regret it. I love riding my bike(s) every single day. Roadcycling in summer, mountainbiking and turbotrainer in winter.
PS: I finally left my parents home a few months ago.
Good luck in life buddy i hope you the best l, ride safe
Expensive mistake - Being in the wrong gear on a hill, I push down, don't really go anywhere, and while trying to clip in the other foot I fall sideways....cracking the BB shell on the kerb and writing off the bike.
Most expensive mistake. I stopped at my parents house mid-ride to refill the bottles. I leaned my bike against the garage door. Someone opened the garage door from inside the house. It picked my bike up about 6 feet in the air and dropped it drive side down. Could have been worse. I had to replace the rear derailleur (R7000 105), rear mech hanger, rear thru axle, and the $50.00 bar tape that I had JUST re-done the day before was scuffed and ruined. All things considered I got lucky.
Also the someone that opened the garage door from inside the house was me.
Si's cheeky laugh at the end gave me a flashback to his "wahoo" giggles last week
was that when he mentioned the twisting off nipples?
More Jess Cam please. I thought she made some very valid points about her Dad’s cycling technique 😂
loving the detail on Connor's ceiling :-)
Si and Dan. The ‘Eric and Ernie’ of GCN. Great show thanks gentlemen.
I agree, their banter is ace... they are like Ant & Dec of the cycling world!
29:43 You know what is witty?
Dans ability to transition this smoothly. :D
34:05 perfect timing, start of a week off and I am still recovering (8 weeks and counting)
My most expensive cycling mistake was starting a bike renovation shop with a friend, who turned out to to be lacking any financial and logical skills. One day he decided to invest all our money in the same spec bike parts. As we were renovating old bikes and we came across many standards, we ended up without the money needed to finish the bikes we had taken from our existing clients. It's a shame as it was great timing to start a bike company and also I lost a good friend in the process. Now I work in IT.
Just wanted to let you guys I am totally signing up for Orla’s documentary
Best part Jessie Cam! Most expensive cycling mistake: using a slide hammer on a 1 inch Carbon steer tube Wound up fork on the floor of the shop... snapped the Dropouts right off. The boss was not happy eating the New replacement ENVE fork...
"Thursday morning, day after the night before" Dunne, Connor, 2021
Dan & Si (Dan gets top billing because of his support for chain guards): In addition to being professional bike riders, you fellows have become professional presenters/journalists/entertainers. I look forward to each week's edition of the GCN Show. Well done!
Any time I open my toolbox to fix a small issue it ends up costing more than getting professional help.
Caption: “I’m telling you, biggy smalls and lined up valves and I’ll get super nice”
Caption: The UCI introduced a new penalty for CX riders: framing!
Caption: I can't find that bloody Allen key
Most expensive mistake: part one - on an all out sprint effort my rear derailleur pulled out and went into my rear wheel and I went down. It destroyed my wheel, rear derailleur, bent my chain, tore my bibs, Jersey, glove, cracked my helmet, bent my seat post, ripped my saddle and severely scratched my glasses. Not to mention the road rash.
Part two - now my derailleur hanger was part of the frame (no dropouts) which was aluminum. It stripped the treads on the frame which I couldn’t afford to replace so a mechanic at a local shop said he could fix it. My mistake was to believe him. About a month after “fixing it” I was doing another sprint and the rear derailleur came out again on the same stretch of road and the result was nearly identical to the first crash.
So, not only was I out all the same things from the first crash I had just replaced, I had to bite the bullet and buy a new frame anyway. Oh yeah, road rash on freshly healed rash is not good.
Lesson learned the hard way, when it comes to the components near your wheels, don’t try anything bodge worthy.
That bar at the end of hacks and Bodges is absolutely incredible!!
Caption: "Lloyds profesional career must be down here somewhere!"
Oh wow! This one is very nice 😂👌
Borrowed my dad's company car to go riding as mine was in the garage. Put my bike on the roof and drove there with no issues until I got to the car park. No I didn't hit the bike on a height restriction, I wedged the car between the width restriction! My car at the time was a Citroen AX which was nearly 2ft narrower than the BMW 7 Series I was in. The damage wrote the car off, it was 7 weeks old and worth well over £50k. Both front wheels were pushed back a good 3 feet into the front doors and the roof had a crease in it from the force of the landing after the car reared up a good 6 feet according to my mate who was waiting. I may have got used to going into that car park at 30mph in my car a bit too easily. The BMW was only 3 inches too wide so my aim was straight and true to get both wheels equally, something my dad was actually quite impressed by. The granite rocks used to restrict the car park width had very little marks on them, just a bit of metallic blue paint that was still on there for months afterwards.
Coletrickle, bringing the thunder for days in that bar. LOL
Watched "Around the world in 80 Days I & II" on GCN+ this week . Super stuff ! Love this and it didn't cost anything extra 'cause I already have Race TV ... but I will admit to crying more then Marc whilst watching his trip
I'd bought locking skewers for my front and rear wheels for my NYC lockup bike. Sadly, I hadn't bought the one for lacking the pressure cap on the Aheadset. Came out of teaching at the Empire State Building to find the entire front end of my bike missing.
Pleased that you briefly mentioned the recent academic study into active travel. This is really important work that contributes to reducing green house gas emissions. As cyclists, particularly those who are able to commute by bike rather than travel by car, we set good examples that hopefully more people will follow.
A few notes on this one.
I was finishing up a trainer session on a cold day just as Hack/Bodge started. I thought "Gosh, we haven't seen a good chain keeper in a while". GCN didn't disappoint! LOL!
Regarding hack/bodge how do you award "hack" to a cardboard box with duct tape? It was a good idea but not a lot different than cutting up a pair of crocs.
Finally, I'd be happy to follow you guys on the app but can see no way to actually search posts by user or search for users. Maybe a quick video would help boost numbers!
Until spring see you in Watopia!
I cannot imagine a bike ride getting boring. Tiring? Yes. Borderline exhausting? Absolutely, But nothing about riding a bike is boring. You can always change direction, take a new turn and discover a route you've never taken before, look for a nice view or a new coffee stop. Meet new people. Stop by a different bike shop and see what they have. Even after riding the same routes repeatedly there is always the wind in your face and something new to see, or a new personal challenge to take on. I can never get enough of it.
The chain started to slip on my Bacchetta racing recumbent. I kept pedaling a few turns (big mistake) hoping that the chain would settle in. The derailleur hanger had snapped. The torque of pedaling a few turns pulled the 3 week old Di2 Ultegra RD into two pieces. $400.
Caption: With her competitors bearing down on her, she put in one last dig for the finish line!
Guilty of driving into parking garage with expensive bike on roof 3 times over a 20 year period. The last time sheared new carbon forks in half like a cutting torch. When at the bike shop ordering a new fork, they said not to worry, someone comes in the shop four or five times a week with the same problem. Since then, have never put a bike on the roof of a car. Roof racks should be for team cars only IMO. Once I switched to a hitch receiver type carrier, I noticed that most of my experienced cycling mates weren't using roof racks. Lessons written in times of financial agony :D
Ploughing into the back of a stationary car on my TIME VXRS - totally split where the top tube meets the head tube .... ! I was admiring my average speed and did not see it until I hit the car on the Dorking Road !
My most costly cycling mistake was giving up biking when I bought my first car at 20 years old. It wasn't financially costly but the health loss is too real. Now I'm 47, I'm out of shape and feel like crap. BUT, I have a new bike on order and will get it in a couple months!
I did buy a new bike 2 years ago and noticed fitness gains right away but the bike was stolen only 2 1/2 months of ownership...
best of luck with the training dan. great to see someone training towards a goal, never been good at running and trained for a 20 minute 5k once, needs so much more mental strength than cycling.
You aren't the only one. My riding buddy went to an appointment after a ride. Unexpectedly had to park in an underground garage with a Cannondale Super Six custom on top. Cannondale sold him a new frame at a discount.
I ride the same bike as Si had totalled - I would cry if Dan trashed mine! Sliding that bike on a diesel covered roundabout is probably my most expensive mistake yet - New SRAM red levers, new Zipp skewers, new power meter pedals and new shoes, plus weeks off training as the flesh and skin had to regrow!
just signed for GCN+ can’t wait for the live racing and documentaries
Most expensive mistake - entering the 2020 Paris Roubaix challenge sportive. Plane tickets from South Africa, bike hire, and a whole bunch of additional deposits and costs down the tubes. Plus the nagging fear that I might not get another chance to do it...
i'm a hack weekender who for some reason was doing a short sprint day down a small hill. The chain was thrown as i was out of the saddle really hitting it, when I really did hit it; the ground over the bars.. Broke the frame and my collar bone.. a wee bit expensive day....
As part of my Masters I am studying Digital Media Ecosystems and have to write a 3000 word assignment on one. As I'm doing road cycling, I can now watch all GCN content guilt free as it can only be considered as "research"!
Had four bikes on the rook of a BMW 5 series many years ago and an impromptu stop at a car park I went to often never taking any notice of the height restriction. Forgetting I had the bikes on I managed to pull all 4 bikes off still attached to the roof rack bars and carriers. Damaged roof rack bars and scratches on the boot of car. Managed to only damage one brake lever on a bike which ended up all in one piece sitting on the road. Managed to pick the lot up strap it all back on the car and continue journey. Cost to repair bikes minimal damage to car a bit more to fix and respray.
Shows how tough the bike actually were.
Caption competition: Stevens been having a hard time but then decided to stand up for himself.
Composites are wonderful but they are terribly vulnerable to even minor mishandling. Repair is practically impossible to boot.
Caption: Gals wait, I cant have the cranks like this if I wanna get that super nice from Boliver Fridgewater
caption: The sand castle contest entries are amazing this year.
With the prevalence of electronic group-sets and how easy it is to install drop seat posts, it's probably the way to circumvent the ban on top tube descending. Dan was years in front of the pros when he did a video about it a few years back.
I bought a new trek carbon fibre bike , lost my balance while stopped, fell heavy, tore my rotar cuff , spent $20’000.00 on a surgery and 12 months loss of wages. That was a expensive mistake 😡
my most expensive mistake was not tuning my rear derailleur before getting into a big ride the day after. While we were going up a climb I shifted gears too much and the rear derailleur went straight into the spokes and apparently broke the rear derailleur cage, the chain and the freehub body.
I completely misheard Si mentioning the comment about his face and thought he said "Mick Shag-n-arse" 😂
My most costly mistake/s were actually breaking many bike parts while mountain biking. Those cost me countless 6 packs for my mechanic friend.
Most expensive cycling mistake: Telling my spouse how much the bike actually cost.
My most costly cyclong mistake was getting into cycling.... 3 months in and 2 bikes and an ebike coming (for the 50°c summers here and rest day commutes). Out $4k already.
Oh i said this before they said it in the show
Brand new Vittoria tires, mounted on modern 700 rims, absent mindedly installed on a vintage roadbike meant for 27" wheels. My first ride didnt last a city block before brake pads sliced sidewalls and tubes. Fortunately only destroyed front. I turned it into a belt. I like my $85 tire belt though.
Caption: When you realize you have your bike the wrong way around to get Manon’s approval for the bike vault:)
All the best with the running Dan
Mine was in early 90s. Bought a new GT road bike, purchased a set of second hand uber-expensive aero (for that time) deep alloy rims. Went down a 20% grad8ent dead straight 600m descent to see how they felt. Heard the first ping as a spoke pulled out of the rim, quickly followed by a ping orchestra at both ends, but I wasn't really interested as I was absorbed by the crash I was having. Everything written off. Manufacturers judgement was that the rims hadn't been correctly treated at manufacture. The rims were simply too soft to hold the spokes. Got a new bike, new rims, and grew lots of new skin
in my defense, barely second hand rims :-)
My most expensive mistake so far: Last week, i somehow managed to miss the flat section of the kerbstone and wrecked the front wheel for good with the high kerbstone next to it. Had to do a front wheel upgrade to my Rose ProSL way ahead of plan, siiiiigh. I'm not quite sure what happened in that very moment, but i had instant empathy from pedestrians nearby. I even managed to damage the hub, the rim is bent in 2 dimensions. Changed for a DT swiss PR1400 Oxic which is doing fine since yesterday!
I did the car rack thing--ripped the entire rack off the top of the car but only broke the tip of the saddle. Never been so lucky.
Most expensive mistake: first outside ride of the year (cold weather is indoor training time) and after literally just one km tried to jump a curb on my Canyon Speedmax. Apparently my bike handling skills degraded over the winter. Double flatted, ripped the tire and chipped my deep section carbon front wheel
Most expensive cycling mistake:
Went for a family walk while a cycling event was on.
When we got to the car park lots of cyclists in the car park including two guys next to us towelling off.
My wife wanting to avoid all the cyclists drove off across the parking bay opposite and crunch a brand new bike had been set down on the ground right in from of our parked car.
I did the decent thing and bought it off the owner for £2000 and then spent £1000 fixing it!
But I did get a new bike out of it!
oh my goodness my father also smashed his Ridley into the top of our garage... must be a Ridley thing... it was a very sad day to say the least
Caption: "Oh no, I've got sand in my Wahoo..."
This one wasn't mine, but my buddy leaned his $10k carbon road bike against the back of his pickup and forgot it was there the next morning when he pulled out of the garage... needless to say, it was in a ton of pieces and unfixable, so he had an unplanned NBD.
Caption: don’t lie to me Steven, I can see right through you!
Mine... I clamped my first carbon frame bike by the top tube instead of seat post 😭 ... Now I know better and thankfully bike shop met me half way on replacement frame
Caption: stop for a minute I need a picture for GCN inspiration
Cole Trickle lol sweet Days of Thunder reference
Breaking a 100 year old bike that is borrowed from a museum. That must be expensive.
I have driven a bike into my garage. On the roof, two hour drive home, forgot about it. Destroyed the bike rack, only a tiny amount of house paint on the shifters.
No one mentioned the Days of Thunder reference with the CX bar?
Cole Trickle, rubbing’s racing!
Si actually a de-restricted is legal on the road. All you would need is 1) an IVA, 2) number plate, 3) Vehicle Excise Duties, 4) minimum third party insurance and 5) and motorcycle helmet. Or a LEATT Helmet MTB 8.0 V21. As it is motorcycle certified. Plus licence ect.
Caption: This new link-counting addition is my favourite part of duathlons.
This was the most passionate Hack/Bodge segment in recent memory. Righteous indignation at labelling a rescue/donation bike a bodge and immediate reflex to categorize a chain keeper as a hack almost reflexly. Well done, gets, well done.
In the thumbnail. Who ever put flat bars on that bike should be severely punished. LOL
if you live in a humid place, those coasters certainly won't protect your table from rings left by the moisture. 50/50 HACK/BODGE depending on location
"The old trainers with the spokes flying around" is the trainer I saved up to buy just a year ago.
That bike tow is a definite hack! I had to help a guy after an accident. He was riding a fixing with a bike on his shoulder. He was headed to the local coop when he crashed. Never heard the final damage, but his should was visibly out of socket and his spine and hip looked pretty jacked up. Anything that works without injury is a hack in my book.
Most expensive mistake was to not properly fasten the bike in the trainer before a Zwiftrace. Managed to rip the bike of the trainer in the final sprint destroying the rear derailleur. Adding insult to injury (literally) was telling my cycling buddies that I couldn’t attend the next group ride because I damaged my bike in a crash... indoors. My wife was sympathetic though: “maybe you should wear a helmet when you are zwifting honey?” But hey, I can live with those insults. Because I have to live with far worse things that have happened in my life; like that time when I asked woman in my neighbourhood when the child was due....I was so certain she was pregnant...well, you cant be right all of the time.
Most expensive mistake - Doing a core workout in my bedroom. Kicked my TT bike (the fastest bike at the 2020 ETU Sprint Duathlon champs) during a set of burpees, for it to fall on to the corner of my bed, cracking the top tube... Carbon repairs are not fun.
Not bolt checking my specialized stumpjumper and completely destroying a £500 wheel when the chain went down the back of the cassette cos the derailer was loose 😭
Dan, have you ever heard of hashing? It is a type of running where you start and finish at a pub then drink beer. Sounds right up your street!
My « almost » most expensive bike mistake ever was when I strapped my DeVinci Hatchet carbon gravel bike to the hitch rack on my SUV... After a while on the road I realized I couldn’t see my bike anymore in my rearview mirror! In total panic I then stopped on the side of the highway to have a look at the rear of the vehicle... only to see my gravel bike laid on its side, horizontally, not touching the ground, only hanging by the straps that hold the wheels and tires to the rack!!! No damage at all! It looks like I had wrongly attached the top tube of the bike to the rack and it had loosened while on the road. Talk about luck ☘️!