A perfectly good rim destroyed by



That's a blurry picture of a branch: two indents on top show where the fork stopped it, and a bunch of cuts on the bottom show where each of the pairs of bladed spokes committed hari kiri trying to cut through it.

How it kicked into my front wheel, I haven't a clue. Lucky for me, I was pulling into my driveway at the time, and the wheel held up enough to merely stop my in my tracks rather than collapsing and providing me an up-close-and-personal with the ground.

Now I have a week to convert the rear 28 spoke rim to a front (this was an 18 spoke front).

It's only money (sigh).