the hotta is on hold :(
Its quite unbelievable…
Thursday i spent the morning finishing THE HOTTA, let me say that other than a few aspects, that frame is well above most of the top frames in the market, the internal cable routing for example is flawless, I was really impressed. At noon I finally left for a ride on my “brand new” hotta V.1…
I rode for ten minutes, ten minutes!!!!! Enough to have a car ignoring a STOP sign, a STOP sign!!!!
I was riding at around 50km/h and had no chance to avoid the car other than a slight change of direction. the result? i was pretty darn lucky I tell you, nothing broken on my body and plenty of road rash and of course pain. I remember being at the floor cursing the damn girl that has done that stupid S#$t and looking to the mortal leftovers of my beautiful bike, 000031 was the first thing i saw, the frame serial number.
Of course it was pretty close from home and the store, so my biz partner Julio and my dad came pretty quickly. Went to hospital, to do all sort of stuff you do in an hospital after hitting a “wall” at 50km/h, like I said nothing broken other than my ego and my bike. I actually recovered pretty well with the aid of anti inflammatory And today I took my mountain bike for a spin in 50km race, 60km from home. although i still have plenty of pain in the impact areas I was able to actually win it :P. Good fun, im getting ready to go back into decent training.
Back to the Hotta, the 000071 Fork is destroyed, there are plenty of scratches in the aerobars, cranks and frame but i think the frame was saved, mainly because it was me who absorbed most of the impact but i really need to inspect the frame closely. Now is all about that girl insurance company covering the costs of a damaged piece of collector value.
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SAD, very SAD. Sorry khai, project Hotta is on hold for at least a few weeks 
