I climbed onto my trainer early Saturday morning in preparation for 3 hour ride. About 3 pedal strokes in I was all of sudden horizontal and falling to the right, crashing to the floor. Long story short, my frame is toast due to a cracked seat stay and area about the derailleur hanger. The quick release skewer was bent so bad I had to cut it off to remove it from the Kickr properly.
I have been racking my brain trying to figure out exactly how it happened, as I probably have a thousand hours on the trainer without incident. My only two guesses were that the rear dropouts weren't secured, or that my new low profile wheel block didn't do a good enough job of stabilizing the front wheel (doubtful). I had just come back from vacation and had ridden right before leaving, so there's no obvious reason why the dropouts would have been released. As for the front wheel block, who knows (I've gone back to a deeper one out of superstition).
Anyway I'm talking with Specialized now about a crash replacement frame, but just thought I'd share my experience in case it could save someone else's bike!
the world's still turning? >>>>>>> the world's still turning
I have been racking my brain trying to figure out exactly how it happened, as I probably have a thousand hours on the trainer without incident. My only two guesses were that the rear dropouts weren't secured, or that my new low profile wheel block didn't do a good enough job of stabilizing the front wheel (doubtful). I had just come back from vacation and had ridden right before leaving, so there's no obvious reason why the dropouts would have been released. As for the front wheel block, who knows (I've gone back to a deeper one out of superstition).
Anyway I'm talking with Specialized now about a crash replacement frame, but just thought I'd share my experience in case it could save someone else's bike!
the world's still turning? >>>>>>> the world's still turning