Months ago now I was riding home from work, the usual route along the Yarra Bike Trail from the city, then onto the Boulevard. Just as I launched into the traffic on the Chandler Highway my chain snapped as I was out of the seat. As far as I can tell I must have twisted the bars so my wheel went (more or less) perpendicular to the road. This is not a good way to try to continue forward so I went straight over the top. Luckily the van behind me stopped as I collected myself off the middle of the lane.
My front wheel pretty much folded around what must have been the point on the road where all my forward momentum was headed. Wheels are strong vertically, and along the axis of movement they usually expect. But they can be brittle if you apply that energy across the wheel. (As happened to T=Mobile's Marcus Burghardt during the Tour.) I wasn't nearly so dramatic. Lucky to not do a collarbone, or my laptop that was on my back.
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