Wreck NOT caused by BoydBikes wheel
This won’t be very long. I had considered taking a break today, but I learned something late last night that convinced me that I needed to get the word out about one aspect on the wreck on Saturday. Hopefully, this post will help clear the air.
This is not a collapsed wheel — it is crushed.
I want it clear that the Boyd wheel did not collapse on me. I heard one story going around that the tire flatted and that caused the fork to twist in my hands and then taco the front wheel. This doesn’t go along with the eye-witness accounts nor does it match the results that show up on the wheel.
The wheel is broken in four places. Two spots out away from the initial point of contact and two smaller spots closer to the where the wheel met the concrete. In the smaller area there are markings of concrete scratches as well.
I was looking at the wheel with my brother-in-law who is a structural engineer. He pointed out that this damage could not have been caused by my weight coming over the wheel. All the signs point to blunt force trauma. The fractures bear markings of a “crush” and not a “snap” from bending.
Notice the concrete work in the bottom left of photo (Photo by Eddie J. Helton)
In the above picture you see Jon Nutting getting ready to go through “turn three”. Well, shortly after turn two there is another rain capture structure much like the one you see in the lower left of the above photo. Now, it isn’t in the same location relative to the road, but you can imagine what would happen if his wheel met that block of concrete at around 30 mph!
So, if you are going to question the integrity of BoydBikes wheels, you are going to need to find some other instance for your support. I have been very pleased with the wheels and once my bank account gets over this shock, I’ll be buying a replacement.
Show me the carbon wheel that would do any differently!
Tags: Booyd Bikes, c50, Wheels, Wreck
Hit concrete with anything at 30mph, it’s going to break.
For that matter, blow a tire on any carbon clincher rim and you’ve got trouble.
Boyd’s a good guy and “his shit is legit” (as the kids might say).
If you look at picture number 343 in the album, it shows the mirror image of the culvert that you hit. This one is across the street from the one that you hit. You can see, by the Specialized bike sitting in the culvert, that the wheel would go very deep compared to the concrete. From my point of view ahead of you I thought that you “might” have had a blow out. Hence my question mark on your first blog concerning the accident. But that shake of the bars could’ve also been caused by the lip crossing from asphalt to concrete. The shake occured JUST before the impact that catapulted you into the air. I heard several comments that day concerning the Boyds wheels, and my comment to each was that there isn’t a carbon rim built that would’ve withstood that impact!
actually john i was going to ask you which wheels you were using as i will be looking at them for my next set of wheels. thanks for the info boyd should post this on his site
As another satisfied Boyd wheel user, I can agree fully with you Jonathan. Any wheel made would crumble at 30 MPH when it hits a curb like that. Boyd’s stuff is top notch!