#mycyclingweekend - Accident and Emergency for bikes

We've seen your bumps, bruises, broken bones, and battered faces in previous editions of the road.cc #mycyclingweekend, but we haven't seen much of the damage these crashes did to your beloved bikes.

It's heartbreaking, we know, to lose a bike. Similar to that of a beloved pet, the relationship that you have with your bicycle is difficult to explain to those who don't have pets... or bikes.

While it is tragic, damage, especially fatal damage, is always worth documenting, so we're sure you've got some snaps lying around.

Broken handlebars, snapped stems, fractured forks, damaged downtubes, or cracked cranks, we want to see them all - who knows there might be something the road.cc triage unit can do to help you out! 

Not long ago our editor Tony Farrelly had an incident with his steel downtube following an innocuous bunny hop. He was travelling slowly and ended up totally unscathed, his bike however, didn't:

 

#mycyclingweekend . ..it wasn't even a big bunny hop

A photo posted by road.cc (@road.cc) on

Apr 18, 2015 at 6:42am PDT

We desperately hope that none of you come into possession of new photos of broken bikes this weekend, but if the worst should happen you know to send the snaps (heh) to us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram via the #mycyclingweekend hashtag right?

If you've never broken a spoke let alone a whole bike, don't worry, you can still get involved. Send us photos of the things you've got planned this weekend, and if you've got nothing at all planned why not check out the road.cc RideCatcher for ideas?

We'll leave you with some photos we've received over the last week or so, including one from our very own John Stevenson.

Safe riding!

 

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A photo posted by Mat Acton (@mat_acton) on

Aug 13, 2015 at 2:43pm PDT

 

Throw back to an intense yoga session with @lululemonuk before rising out to Box hill. Great to see how flexible we all are! #yoga #bike #cycling #boxhill #lululemon #sundayfunday #mycyclingweekend #cycling #tbt #throwbackthursday

A photo posted by James Harvey (@jimharvstergram) on

Aug 13, 2015 at 5:20am PDT

 

Cheeky throwback to the first climb of the @etapedutour Col du Chaussey stunning place to watch the sunrise. About 3 hrs later I was in a deep dark pain cave! #etape #colduchaussy #paincave #tourdefrance #tourdattack #Cycling #CyclingShots #mountains #france #blackandwhite #instagood #mycyclingweekend #climbing #selfie

A photo posted by hamishg333 (@hamishg333) on

Aug 13, 2015 at 5:56am PDT

Prefect tree-shaded place to stop for a banana in Great Bradley, Suffolk and the view #mycyclingweekend pic.twitter.com/MKX13GHfXs

— John Stevenson (@johnstevenson_x) August 10, 2015