“After the turn around I must have hit a bump. An external part of the frame broke off, which holds the housing for the front derailleur. It shifted down into my little ring,” Walle said. “I couldn’t get into my big ring at that point. For the last two miles I was little ringing it.”
It’s not the first time Walle has finished on the podium in spite of a mechanical. Walle won the Oregon Road Race Championships last year after getting stuck in her little chainring on the final climb. “I did a spinning sprint to the finish,” laughed Walle. “My rear wheel was bopping around.”
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Brianna Walle takes third in Nature Valley TT despite mechanical problem
Hardcore!
(via womenscycling)
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