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Yes I have broke my bike in half.

I used to like to jump the railway tracks in downtown Edmonton, in the 80's they used to be elevated 2-3 feet above the level of the road surface. When they ran across a street, they just paved a nice little jump in the road up to cross the rails. In the middle of the night, there was no traffic, just hookers and drug dealers on the sidewalks. I would ride downtown all night alot. And jump my RD-350LC over the railway humps. One night, I landed off one hump and snapped the front-end off at the headtube. It sucked. I wouldn't recomend it.

When I was a teenager my cousin broke his bicycles frame in half after coming off a jump. He wasn't injured, but it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Skier wrote:Sweet I had a response all typed up, was about to post and I must have hit a special "close the browser window instead of copy your post to the clipboard" key combo.

Back on track, it's rider abuse that kills those frames. Keep slammin' down those wheelies because you're a moronic squid trying to impress your fellow 21 year old buddies and it's gonna break. So don't use a race-replica bike for doing stupid "crumb" like that.

Got it, that would make sence...

MrGompers wrote:When I was a teenager my cousin broke his bicycles frame in half after coming off a jump. He wasn't injured, but it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

A buddy was riding down a set of stairs on his mountain bike... when he hit the bottom the front end of the bike just folded under and his face continued on down to the pavement. If you watch the video footage close you can see a tooth bouncing away from his face.

i think its important to realize that he was "just riding down the street" at a low rate of speed. he was just riding safely and it snapped.

if you cant trust a 21 year old riding a literbike who can you trust?

As frames get lighter and thinner, things like this are bound to happen more frequently. Aluminum, especially, is subject to fatigue limits that other materials, such as steel, are not.

But I agree with O RLY and think there is more to this particular case than the "victim" is saying.

dieziege wrote:...so someone added a horn by drilling into the aluminum frame? Is that what I'm reading?

"... started inspecting the bike. They spotted a hole drilled into the frame for his horn.

"When they tried to get the bike repaired, they say initially, Suzuki seemed cooperative. Jerard says after he raised that question, Suzuki officials refused to repair his bike."

Not "the horn" but "his horn"... and why else would Suzuki refuse to repair after the hole was pointed out?

So who drilled the hole for the horn?

Did you watch the video? Suzuki became uncooperative after the victim asked who would pay his medical bills. As far as the new story covered, Suzuki never responded about the horn.

Ever take it off any sweet jumps?

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you made beer shoot out my nose.

BigChickenStrips wrote:^ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ^

you made beer shoot out my nose.

Alcohol abuse, PARTY FOUL!