Daily fail

[toro1978]

I have a daily bike. Nothing fancy - a diamond frame, 7 speed igh, and a drum brake in the front.
Well I didn't bother to reapply some grease to it and a hard emergency braking caused this:

Luckily I have another fork that I can use, but not having another drum brake on hand I will have to switch to a rim brake for a while.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

That looks like an epic amount of force! Never seen anything like that before

 

[Oak Tree]

Yeah. Seems like there’s a good story in there somewhere. “Hard emergency brake”

 

[toro1978]

Nothing especially entertaining. I was dumb enough to a short distance without lights after dark and a driver couldn't see me until the last moment. I got lucky that he had very quick reactions and managed to stop before running me over.

I had no idea that the reaction arm could bend like that. So far I'd found the drum brake easy to modulate so I never grabbed the lever so hard before.

 

[Oak Tree]

Best thing about that is that you are ok. Close call there Mr Toro

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

holy shnikees! I'm surprised it was able to bend the fork at the end like that. Maybe with some heat you can bend it back?

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Bilbo doesn't like this

 

[toro1978]

The top nut got somehow stuck during removal after a few millimeters so I cut through the shaft. I installed another fork that I had.