{"id":5330,"date":"2013-10-31T23:23:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T23:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:06:57","slug":"eagle-loses-wheel-slow-speed-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/10\/31\/eagle-loses-wheel-slow-speed-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle Loses Wheel – Slow Speed Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"DSCN0704\"<\/a>Warming down from a pretty spirited 12-mile ride, as I rolled through a roundabout and turned left on to a bike path in front of a 16-wheeler, my front wheel broke free and sent me and the bike into a slide that put us right next to the lorry. I could. not figure out why we crashed until I stood my bike up and saw the wheel hanging there.<\/p>\n

I felt bad for the big rig driver. He had climbed out of his vehicle to see if I was OK. He looked me in the eyes and kept asking if I was all right. Which I was.<\/p>\n

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As serendipity would have it, I was about half a mile from Pawel Guba’s shop. \u00a0And he was there! And he is not going to just heli-arc it back together, he is going to machine a shank for the inside of the tube so this does not happen again. This area had become compromised when a pretty healthy chuckhole bent the front wheel back in to the rear wheel in the winter of 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Warming down from a pretty spirited 12-mile ride, as I rolled through a roundabout and turned left on to… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,33,9,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacksmith","category-eagle-hiwheel","category-ireland","category-training"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1nY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2021\/08\/08\/chapter-excerpt-why-i-ride-an-eagle\/","url_meta":{"origin":5330,"position":0},"title":"Chapter Excerpt – Why I Ride an Eagle","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"August 8, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Why the\u00a0 Eagle is at\u00a0 Home in\u00a0Indianapolis! 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