damage

A simple enough job, cleaning the chain on my 2 month old Merida eOne-Sixty. But I thought I'd be a bit more thorough than usual, so I popped it up on my Park Tools bike stand as a recently mangled knee is stopping me bending down for a while. There's only one horizontal piece of top tube that...

My Decoy Pro 29 finally turned up after quite a long wait considering it was in stock. But the excitement quickly vanished when I found this. Seems the mech hanger has rotated and dug into the seat stay, splitting the carbon. There was no damage to box or packaging, so can only assume it...

Had a great ride at Cannock on Sunday only to find last night that the wheel bearing had seized / become very stiff in the rear hub. On stripping down the rear hub I also found that one of the pawls within the freehub has sheared and so is only latching on 2 pawls, images below show good and...