I’m relatively unscathed but my bike to a hard bit. I lost a bunch of spokes and the wheel was very wobbly on the way.
I just got it back from the shop, they wanted me to ‘take it easy’ on it bc of the crack.
I’m in a rural Andean region of Colombia, all the terrain is very rocky/steep
by RODREEZUS
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Absolutely not. That looks horrible. Especially wit the terrain you are in for,
I wouldn’t ride it. If the wheel disintegrates and you pop a tyre, depending on where it happens you could lose some teeth. I also wouldn’t trust the shop if they are letting you ride it (this depends though, whether you specifically said you don’t want anything more than spokes being done).
There is a crack with an obvious hole, your wheel IS NOT SAFE!!!
It will be absolutely fine, until it catastrophically splits into 2 and kills you. But your risk.
Not safe, you need a new wheel
If you look at it on the positive side of things, this is a glaring “do not ride anymore” carbon bike component as opposed to the ones where you can’t tell they’re damaged. Carbon damage and voids can often be internal and impossible to detect with the naked eye; this coupled with how carbon catastrophically fails can land you in the hospital without any warning.
Are you sure you didn’t hit your head?
Bin that wheel.
Doesn’t matter what your reason is, that’s going to cause an injury sooner rather than later.