Another one bites the dust.

[veech_imp]

Thank God you are OK, that is the main thing. The damage to the bike blows, but it sort of comes with the territory. I have gone down at some point on basically every bike I have ever owned over the last 40 years, and 98% of the time it was things like gravel, leaves, oil, black ice, etc. that you could not see due to night time, blind corners, etc. If you hit one of those things in the middle of a turn there is not a whole lot that can be done if your front tire looses traction-you are gonna go down.

There has been more than one occasion when I was sliding down the road with parts of my bike tinkling on the pavement along side of me.

I look at it this way...it is a great excuse to customize your bike!