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  1. Now that's unlucky 
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    I'm glad you find it funny Carl, somehow I doubt you'd have laugh if it'd happened to you.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnJdEFigY2I
     
     

  2. Re: Now that's unlucky 
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    Unlucky, but could have happened somewhere else and caused quite a spill. I guess the beads weren't seated properly or were somehow defected? How could that happen!
     
     

  3. Re: Now that's unlucky 
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    The whole wheel broke where it mounts

     
     

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    Not good! Spokes snapped by the look of it? Carbon wheel or alloy? Anyone?
     
     

  5. Re: Now that's unlucky 
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    I think it was a Magnesium alloy wheel that after further tests concluded there was a manufacturing flaw resulting in a crack that couldn't be seen just by looking at it :-[
     
     

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    Watched this live at the weekend, just before the point where this video starts it looked like the bike behind touched the rear wheel, don't know if that would have had an effect.
    It's Lilac... not pink!
     
     

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    definitely different, the commentators reckoned that it isn't uncommon and wheels should be changed at regular intervals.
     
     

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    I suppose they thought it seemed funny because it could have been so much worse, but it still seemed odd to hear them laugh over it.
     
     

  9. Re: Now that's unlucky 
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    I'm guessing they thought it was funny as they're ex racers and they've probably experienced lots of spills like it. The odds are the chap walked away - most do from lowside type spills. Still, I wouldn't have laughed if it were me... I'd have been worried about how to clean the sh17 off the inside of my leathers! ;D
     
     

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    Quote Originally Posted by Squashed_Fly
    I'm guessing they thought it was funny as they're ex racers and they've probably experienced lots of spills like it. The odds are the chap walked away - most do from lowside type spills. Still, I wouldn't have laughed if it were me... I'd have been worried about how to clean the sh17 off the inside of my leathers! ;D
    I think they 'mostly' get up and walk away:

    1. because they don't slide into a kerb
    2. as above but on comming traffic.

    Still a poop scraping experience though....
     
     

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