Megan's sob story

03 Sep 2010

To win the Park Tool prize in last month's NZMTBR magazine you needed to submit your best broken-dropout sob story.  You can comment on the stories on our Facebook page.  This is Megan's story:

Thank you for the opportunity to tell my husbands sob story, he would be stoked to win some good quality tools. Here it is -

My husband had in the two previous years completed the 24k and the 40k Colville Connection and had decided to support me in my first organised mountain bike ride doing the 24k Colville Connection. We started out great, he rode with me for the first 8k's which is about the top of the first downhill where he broke his rear derailleur hanger caused by lots of impacted mud around the rear deraillieur (it was a very wet and muddy year). As we didnt have a spare derailleur hanger it was decided after a quick discussion that he would simply break his chain and go single speed and he encouraged me to go on and he would catch up. For the next 16 k's unbeknown to me, Rich was coasting along with his feet in the pouring rain, as while trying to break the chain his chain breaker broke (thats what you get when you buy cheap tools). So i finished the ride in under 2 hours and had to wait for him for another 1 1/2 hours. He was given the opportunity a couple of times to get a ride back in a bike recovery vechile but he was going to finish the race. Funny thing was he didnt come in last either.

Cheers, Megan

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