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wow thats big! and sad.
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Ah interesting, a regular brought an babboe with strange handling into me last spring, frame was snapped clean through on one side near the kickstand. He bought it used, but had literally a few hundred miles on it from new, never heard what happened, but suspect he got a local metalworker to sleeve it and weld/brace it.
Saw another where it started to crack on the top tube infront of the seat-tube, just about 10mm away from the welded area (too much heat, or mismatched tubing types, a proper metal worker will know what type of defect that is). They got it repaired locally and been fine ever since. Big benefit of basic steel tubing, any bugger can fix it. That bike had probably 50k KM on it though, stored out doors, used every day, Glasgow roads so getting an absolute pounding in the big pot holes, dutch guy, very tall, automatically makes the rider 110kg or more and always in use, always with lots of stuff on board. So to be fair, he got his money's worth until the failure.
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I don't know if they are popular in the UK, but Babboe has been ordered to cease trading and do a massive recall.