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That pic rocks!
... says the expert ... :)
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How did she manage such immense destruction?
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How did she manage such immense destruction?
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When i was 18, I got knocked off my bike by a HGV. The bike was folded in half.
My bike got pulled under the front wheel, throwing me forward - and spinning me round - so i landed on my head.
I fractured my skull, and now i can't taste or smell ANYTHING as a result.
That was nearly 12 years ago.
My "shit really don't stink" ha, haOh, I put my front teeth through my upper lip, after hitting a car door that got thrown open, whilst i was at full speed. Stitches and false front teeth. Bent forks.
I've had a chainring embedded into my knee - snapped pedal - knee arthroscopy.
And a few flats....Remind me to never lend you a bike, or cook for me...
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putting too much pressure on the bars from side to side when accelerating in a big gear
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The pic of that snapped stem scares me - I've been getting a lot of flew from my stem recently :-S
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I think he still carried on using them to steer perfectly, like the way characters in cartoons can carry on walking for a little bit after they walk off the edge of a cliff.
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That's pretty impressive eddie!
Well I've managed to do it again...
I came to pick my bike up (back in Leicester, at the folks) to chuck it in the car and head for the train station when I realised I had *yet another *flat. This was a pretty good thing actually cause otherwise I may not have noticed this lovely sight!
That's right, I've fucked another frame! It's nicely snapped right through the chainstay (where it has been rewelded once already. I'm sure somebody told me welds are meant to be stronger than the metal itself?!) So that's another frame down the drain and I have no idea how long I've been riding it like that for!!
The fact that I still had to get myself back to London and then back to my flat meant that something had to be done about this 'slight issue'. I popped a new tube in, just to keep things simple (!), and then proceeded to think of ways to keep my bike running. BING A geneous idea hit my smack in the face! So I did this...
I put a massive bike style plaster on it. Gaffa solves everything! So I'm home and I didn't die, but I think that's the end of another bike.
Anyone with any offers would be welcomed with oped arms and a fist full of tools.
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The fact that it can be welded *again *is not the issue, it's the fact that I'll probably snap it again even after that! I'd rather put some money into a decent frame that one that's been snapped twice already.
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The fact that it can be welded *again *is not the issue, it's the fact that I'll probably snap it again even after that! I'd rather put some money into a decent frame that one that's been snapped twice already.
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.
:)
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That's right, I've fucked another frame! It's nicely snapped right through the chainstay (where it has been rewelded once already. I'm sure somebody told me welds are meant to be stronger than the metal itself?!) So that's another frame down the drain and I have no idea how long I've been riding it like that for!!
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.
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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!
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Oliver, how could we do that? Then would be no point in this thread!
You could still dream ... :)
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I was riding along though New Cross once cutting between traffic, dodging pot holes (quite common for New Cross) when BANG made me shit myself, then my bike started wobbling all over the place. I slowly bought it to a stand still got off and had a look. Inspected all over the bike but then just as I was about to get back on the bike and ride off I noticed, I had a puncture. Practically all the air had been expelled from my tyre, there was even some chalk dust that had been expelled from inside the tube.
No picture I am afraid as I fixed it and went on my way.
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I was riding along though New Cross once cutting between traffic, dodging pot holes (quite common for New Cross) when BANG made me shit myself, then my bike started wobbling all over the place. I slowly bought it to a stand still got off and had a look. Inspected all over the bike but then just as I was about to get back on the bike and ride off I noticed, I had a puncture. Practically all the air had been expelled from my tyre, there was even some chalk dust that had been expelled from inside the tube.
No picture I am afraid as I fixed it and went on my way.
that's not really bike destruction. your bike is in the same condition now as it was when u set off.
It's a pinch flat, most likely--a mild form of bike destruction, I would say. Surely this thread allows things that can be fixed? :)
OK, so not for purists who have elevated bike destruction to an art.
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It's a pinch flat, most likely--a mild form of bike destruction, I would say. Surely this thread allows things that can be fixed? :)
OK, so not for purists who have elevated bike destruction to an art.
i would call it bike damage. happens every day to someone around london. and it can be repaired on the spot. in my book bike destruction involves either broken metal or disfigurement. the kind of thing that makes people double take upon seeing. like gus's bent headtube.
anyway found a pic of something that happened two years ago near the Oval. carried the bike home for a full 20 minutes. some little kid made my day by saying "that bike's broken mummy". pedestrians can be lethal.
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i would call it bike damage. happens every day to someone around london. and it can be repaired on the spot. in my book bike destruction involves either broken metal or disfigurement. the kind of thing that makes people double take upon seeing. like gus's bent headtube.
Ah, good, we're getting closer to proper definitions. ;)
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