How the f@#$ does this happen?

any takers please

How much do you weigh?

bout 11 stone

Not that then...

was gonna try and get to polo this week or next but the chances of that look slim now

could it be result of front braking

that the frame digby gave you?

sold me, yeah

fault in the brazing.

built up the old raliegh frame with the spares but i think it looks shit

it just looks wierd to me.. is it cos the frame is so small and the wheels are 27's

Have seen it on 70's Raleigh frames, twice before, one 23", and one 25", may be due to longish headtube, and insufficient bracing, or shoddy/wrong temperature brazing?

there is slight rusting which could not poss have happened overnight so think issue has been there for a while pretty gutted was loving it

any opinions on the raleigh? the wheel base looks looonnnng and slack

Derren Brown did it.

yeah just watching that, it's camera trickery... the lottery was ages ago lol

any opinions on the raleigh? the wheel base looks looonnnng and slack

Messaged.

The Raleigh looks okay, the one I'm riding was a touring bike so it has a massive wheelbase, if you stick a saddle on there and with a few inches of seatpost it will look better. Cranks will also fill in the white space between the wheels.

the Raleigh looks quite nice IMO, wheelbase doesn't that that big to me at all?

bloody hell, that sux.

any takers please

Too many pies.

It's not a brazing fault that, as the headtube would be running right down through that lug.
Perhaps too much heat when it was being manufactured weakened the pipe? Or maybe a manufacturing fault in the piping the headtube is made of

What frame is that?

Wherever the crack starts, it runs around the stress raiser caused by the big step between the thick lug and the tube. That's why the best frames have the lugs filed to make the transition a taper rather than a step. Difficult to tell with the low resolution and out of focus pix, but possible dry joint at the front of the head tube allowing corrosion between the tube and lug to provide a site for crack initiation.

I think the frame is broken

It'll buff out.

just weld it!