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
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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