Talors 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 Talor's story:

I had been hanging out for a ride for weeks. Then I finally had a free weekend and rang my cousin as soon as I realised, I asked him if he wanted to go for a ride in the weekend and he was keen so we decided on a day. He picked me up in the morning and we got over to the Red Woods (the Best mountain bike park in the Bay of Plenty), they could not stop me from getting on my bike and into the mountain. We got the shuttle pick us up and went up the mountain. We went down Huckleberry Hound and then onto LittleRed Riding Huck one of the best tracks there. We did this 3 times, on the 3rd trip down my brake leaver for my back wheel fell down so I could not reach it. This was at the top of the mountain so I still had a fear way down to go with no breaks! I was only using my front brakes so nearly going over  my handle bars! If I had a multi tool with an allen key I would have been able to move it back and have fun on the rest of the way down. Instead I had to be a turtle and crawl my way down. I still had to get back to the car park for my ride home. Then to make this worse on the ride back, guess what I got? Yes that's right a flat type. So I did not had a patch kit or a new tube so I had to walk my bike to the car park. So that was my ride from HELL!!!

 

Thanks Talor

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