so i destroyed my frame on the weekend..... what do we think?

Basically, i was cycling up a short steep hill, felt something slip, so i looked down and saw the chain had come off the front sprocket and was caught on the crank arm. the bike decelerated pretty quick, when i got off i saw the damage :(

heres a few photos of my baby, and the ailment she suffers from. i think it may be terminal!

drive side:

non-drive side, notice the two tone crankarms? rad as fuck. also the LHS crank arm had an accident a while back :(

pic of the cockpit, nice and narrow :)

heres a dirty gusset shot, for all you perverts out there :P

and here we have the issue.....

another shot, just to show how twisted she is

additional shots :(

How the fuck did you do that!?

Is this a subtle beholdmyawesometorque boast post?

More seriously - if you're attached to the frame, take it to a frame builder and see what they say. Looks like one of the stays may have been damaged and has bent around the damaged point under load.

/inexpert opinion

That'll buff out.

Godzilla legs

did you ride it with that much slack in the chain?

indra'd

did you ride it with that much slack in the chain?

no, i ride with a tight chain so i can easily track stand, the slack chain is a result of the twisted frame.

Is this a subtle beholdmyawesometorque boast post?

yes

More seriously - if you're attached to the frame, take it to a frame builder and see what they say. Looks like one of the stays may have been damaged and has bent around the damaged point under load.

i actually work with a couple of chaps who design obscure bicycles (cant give any more info because it narrows them down to one group), they consider it written off because the drive side chain stay isnt bent in a local position, but the entire length. plus there are about 4 other places the frame has bent :(

Chub hubs known to be a contributing factor to frame AIDS.

Will you be hanging it on a wall or putting it in a trophy cabinet?

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couple of chaps who design obscure bicycles

Brompton AICMFP

What is the tubeset? Parmesan?

Crikey.

nightmare

who made this frame then?

That was my thought - or are you actually Robert Foerstemann?

Touch up paint always looks like shit. Often it looks worse than the scratch.

Just so I have this right - you bent your rear triangle completely out of shape by pedalling too hard?

@h2o seems to suggest prior damage and I'd agree.

that is the what appears to of happened yes. frame has no cracks, as far as i can tell there was no damage to it, i hadnt fallen off of it recently either.

i imagine there was a manufacturing defect in there somewhere though, or it had fatigued over time.

The chain stays design doesn't seem too smart to me. If they were straight to start with, this wouldn't have happened imo.

you're biek was shit maaaaayte

set your bike up with a left hand drive system, do EXACTLY the same thing you did to get in this mess to start with and that should pull it straight

basically what im going to do. gunna bend it as straight as i can, then wack a LHS drive on. will also replace most of the components with beater parts in case it fails and trashes the rear wheel/crankarms

I hope you are joking...