Whilst in northern Californian on my recent solo West Coast bike tour, the braking surface on my front wheel became so worn out that it decided to catastrophically fail. Luckily (ahem, skilfully) I managed to save it and not stack it, even in the wet going downhill around a corner with all my touring gear.
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The Front Runner
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Front Row at the Trump Show
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Impressive handling
How do you think I managed to get out of this sticky situation and continue on with my tour?
That really sucks
what tyres are you running? 28mm?
11/10 bike handling skills, i thing 99% of ppl would not have stayed so calm and managed to control the bike
Good save JK !
You nearly stacked it! Your one lucky guy Joseph. Did you manage to get a lift to the nearest LBS?
held on to it well bud
glad you stayed upright
it must have been the vegan diet that caused you not to crash
Well played! I probably would have gone down.
Im glad youre ok, cant wait for your next videos. You really had the cold blood not to panic 😀
just have it replaced right away…it would take years to destroy new rims.
SAVE!!!!!
How sure are you that the braking surface is what failed? Looks more like a puncture caused the rim to shatter upon dropping. Either way, scary shit. Lol how many miles did you get on those?
fair play keeping that upright!!!
there may in fact be a god after all!? haha
My favorite wheels. Progress phantom aluminium and semi aero and 1.3kg of weight. Around of 450€ the pair. After try Lightweight, Zipp, FF, and others this is my favourite.
not sure what’s better, your bike handling or the slowed down version of you saying “hooooooolyyyy shiiit” hahaha
dramatic! :+O glad you didnt die n stuff
Mad handling skills bruh 🙂
Nice to see your ok though 🙂