Glover Fan
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Almondsbury, Nr Bristol
Too tired to do a massive write up so here is a summary.
Planned to 120 mile ride today including Gospel pass climb, following the route of the Audax.
Bailed at Abergavenny. Had a 2,000 mile old Shimano 105 front mech snap clean on me about 15 miles away from Hay-on-wye so couldn't change down to small ring. In Hay-on-wye, manually got the chain onto the bottom ring, but by now I was already knackered. Did the Gospel Pass, discovered my maximum heart rate was 5 bpm more than I thought, completely under-estimated the climb. Also my Lidl saddle bag snapped completely, so further mental demoralisation.
Couldn't hack having to give another 35 miles of spinning on the bottom cog, so rang the wife who kindly picked me up earlier.
At the moment, I am really annoyed with Wiggle, I had always had issue with this front mech on my Focus Cayo, could never get it setup right, took it to the LBS about 500 miles ago, turned out it was aligned too low and was rubbing on the big chainring slightly which bent it, so they raised it and bent it back, so obviously it had weakened the mech and today it just spontaneously exploded on me. Bike is 2 years old so can't be bothered to bring up Sale of Goods act, but have decided I am not going to buy from Wiggle again. I mean, in the list of mechanical failure likeliness, the front mech snapping is pretty low on my list.
Anyway, going to source an Ultegra one which I see you can get on CRC for £25, just need to know what size I need? They have 28.6mm/31.9mm, 34.9mm and a braze on. Basically my bike is a 105 running a compact double on the front 34/50 and a 27/12 on the back.
Pic of my snapped 105 mech...
Planned to 120 mile ride today including Gospel pass climb, following the route of the Audax.
Bailed at Abergavenny. Had a 2,000 mile old Shimano 105 front mech snap clean on me about 15 miles away from Hay-on-wye so couldn't change down to small ring. In Hay-on-wye, manually got the chain onto the bottom ring, but by now I was already knackered. Did the Gospel Pass, discovered my maximum heart rate was 5 bpm more than I thought, completely under-estimated the climb. Also my Lidl saddle bag snapped completely, so further mental demoralisation.
Couldn't hack having to give another 35 miles of spinning on the bottom cog, so rang the wife who kindly picked me up earlier.
At the moment, I am really annoyed with Wiggle, I had always had issue with this front mech on my Focus Cayo, could never get it setup right, took it to the LBS about 500 miles ago, turned out it was aligned too low and was rubbing on the big chainring slightly which bent it, so they raised it and bent it back, so obviously it had weakened the mech and today it just spontaneously exploded on me. Bike is 2 years old so can't be bothered to bring up Sale of Goods act, but have decided I am not going to buy from Wiggle again. I mean, in the list of mechanical failure likeliness, the front mech snapping is pretty low on my list.
Anyway, going to source an Ultegra one which I see you can get on CRC for £25, just need to know what size I need? They have 28.6mm/31.9mm, 34.9mm and a braze on. Basically my bike is a 105 running a compact double on the front 34/50 and a 27/12 on the back.
Pic of my snapped 105 mech...
