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I was brought a bike today (which I shall talk about in a minute) which had such an awful repair job on it It got me thinking, what was the worst repair jobs I'd ever seen? This bike happened to be up there on my list, but I'm sure people have seen worse so please share.
This is my first submission; A friend brought me his 'new bike' too look at, as he felt he might have damaged the thread on his wheel (turns out hes stripped it but thats another story), when he called me he mentioned that he'd been given a Brian Rourke for free so I was quite looking forward to seeing it. Sure enough it turned out to be quite a nice frame (531 with campag dropouts and a Campag headset too).
Sorry about the Photo quality, I only had my phone.
On closer inspection I noticed something 'amiss' with the chains stays...
Turns out he'd noticed a crack in the chain stay and asked his dad to repair it, which he did by using buckets of solder and a pieces of copper pipe...
He doesn't seem to mind but personally theses no way I'd ride is, it can't be safe!
Anyway has anyone got anything better? or should I say worse?