The sad part about racing nice carbon fiber bikes

Ben Renkema was the first rider on Globalbike to receive the brand new B930 frame. We quickly built it up and after a few rides he proclaimed it was the best bike he has ever ridden.

But then this past Sunday this happened:



If you look closely in the slow motion replay you can see a rider landing on top of the chain stays, breaking both of them, and also putting a crack into the top tube. It should be noted that with the speeds of this race, and the way the rider landed on the chainstays, any bike would have met it's demise due to this accident.

So, he'll be without the new B930 for the next week as we get the new one built up. But at least he is fine and ready to join the rest of the team as we try to rip it up at Joe Martin stage race starting on Thursday.