Fuck
I don’t even know what happened. This is how I found it.
Is this even remotely possible without deliberate malicious effort? There seems to have been a lot of FORCE applied.
pictures are straight off the camera, around a meg and a half each. click with care.
The lock is bent. The goddamned lock.
Also the handlebar had been twisted relative to the front wheel, but that was easy to fix. Still not something that happens from accident or from leaning against the wall, though.
Update from the future: it’s totalled.
March 10th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
That’s crazy… it looks like someone just jumped right on top of it. Patterns match for that.
That’s very odd
March 10th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
That bike got hit by something (car or golf cart), dude.
The only time I saw taco’d wheels like that when I was working in shops was when someone did a 20 foot drop on a hardtail..
And it takes a LOT to bend a U lock like that…
Sorry man. You’re going to need a new wheel. Good news is that a cheap one runs $35 or so, plus labour to move your cassette over.
March 10th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
*hugs*
March 10th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Those were the lines I was thinking along. Something large, heavy, and motorized.
But why didn’t it strike any time in the last few weeks? It was in the exact same spot it always is. And that area is only accessible by relatively narrow sidewalks; I don’t even think you could get one of those little tiny ACS carts up here.
March 10th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Dude, that’s fucked up. :(
March 10th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
That sucks. If you think it could have been from a campus vehicle, I would take the time to complain to someone. File a report with campus police. This isn’t attempted theft, and probably not even vandalism.
Insist that it’s some moron driving a campus vehicle.
March 10th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
It looks to me like the rear fork is bent too. The frame isn’t as strong as the lock.
Here’s my guess. The bike is parked perpendicular to the rack, with the rear wheel under the “U” of the rack. Someone comes along with a motorized vehicle and slams into the bike. The rear wheel and fork remain in position, held by the lock. The wheel gives way, the frame bends, and the lock goes last.
Doing this probably takes less force than you think, because you’ve got leverage. It’s even possible that a skateboarder could have enough momentum to do this. Of course, he’d have flown head-first over the bike.
The show will have to check for frame bending along the center section too, if this scenario is what happened.
March 10th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I meant “The shop will have to check…” It’d be nice to be able to edit…
April 21st, 2006 at 1:21 pm
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