I read Grant's post, and I think there's a red herring here - the damage to the wheel came not from continued pedaling, but from continued rotation of the wheel. They're simply not the same thing. Either something got into the spokes, ahead of the derailer and inside the chain, or something smashed the derailer into the spokes from the side. Either way, the derailer was yanked back, and snapped off the rear dropout, and some spokes on the drive side of the wheel were snapped.
In any case, the damage was not done by continued *pedaling* - it was done by continued rotation of the wheel after something jammed up the works. The rider could have been simply coasting along. Purely armchair racing here, yes, but the best thing any of us could do in such a case is to stop as quickly as possible. - Andrew, Berkeley On Friday, January 18, 2013 8:37:14 AM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote: > > That Hunqapillar story irritates me. Getting something crossed up in a > wheel is a hazard of riding a bicycle. If something gets in there and you > keep pedaling, either the wheel is going to stop spinning, or something's > going to snap. If I did that to my Saluki, I would expect to pay for the > repair, not express "disappointment" in the frame. This is ridiculous. > > Joe Bernard > Vallejo, CA. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ltAXFD7AIy8J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
