Bicycle damage list S and also M

Bicycle damage list S and also M

Bent dérailleur tab S (possibly in airplane shipping)
Bent rear dropout on derailleur side M (maybe in airplane shipping)
Bent derailleur M (outcome of stupid stupid dog attack)
Broken water bottle cage M (again, stupid stupid dog attack)
Shifter and handlebars deeply scratched, and trailer. M (all part of really stupid sub moronic dog attack) ( I hate that dog and wish him more ill than just the tread of my Vans skate show imprinted on his moron snout.) (yes, he hurts my feelings, but also my knee.)
Broken right side SRAM shifter S (which happened when Shannon was hit by a wall of truck breath and smashed ungently in to a wall. If you have ever felt the large amount of air displaced by a semi truck at close range you know what "truck breath" is. It can also be the opposite, as in it suddenly cuts the wind away that you were fighting and cause an almost vacuum effect which sucks you towards the semi truck. Neither is ideal. Both can cause you a broken shifter.
Broken rear dérailleur tab. S by M ( caused after we bought S new Shimano shifters and I was installing them along with the new Shimano rear dérailleur because in all honestly S and M both despise SRAM with a deep and unapologetic passion. I wanted the new shifty shifting to work like a champ and knew that it could if only that pesky dérailleur hanger was not so bent. I know and knew better but decided to give it the old pull and hope try and tink, it broke.
Is that it? Not that that isn't enough. A couple of those items were enough to end our trip, or at least delay it badly, mostly because we saw no bicycle shops for four countries. Google searches only led to dead ends. We did find one tiny bicycle shop in Bar, Montenegro but it was no bigger than an American McMansion closet and he couldn't have stocked what we needed, plus at that point we didn't need it. He did have brake pads though and we needed those with a inhuman desperation. Those Albanian mountains pretty efficiently erased our brake pads.
At this point we are back in one (two) piece but Shannon's rear dérailleur hanger is still bent, despite being welded back together. We will have to keep an eye out for a replacement part as we travel Italy, the land of the bicycles origin. At this point S is just happy to have more than two gears, especially as we hit the bigger hills.


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