Bike destroyers tell your story here...

The weld itself may be strong, but the heat-affected steel around it probably won't be, especially if it's been re-brazed (thus two heating/cooling cycles). There's some pretty awful-looking corrosion around the break too.

The "correct" way to get it fixed would be to get a proper framebuilder to replace at least the snapped chainstay and probably the seatstay too with new tubes. Dave Yates lists repairs at £70 (single chain stay) to £230 (whole new rear end) - http://www.daveyatescycles.co.uk/repairs.htm . A car place probably won't be used to working with really thin steel - a sill, say, is a much bigger chunk of metal than a stay.

I take your point Steff but the frame was free to me and isn't worth anything. I'm intending to buy a decent frame for £100, so there's no point fixing this one for £70, but it's deffinitely worth keeping in mind should I ever have an expensive frame that I would want to always have.

The solution is simple.

Yes.

No more tricks.

No more wallrides.

No more skids.

No more wheelies.

No more hops, jumps, or LYAO crashes.

NO MORE FUN.

Do it for the bikes.

:)

Oliver, how could we do that? Then would be no point in this thread!