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Ask @Patch about fixing a bike with twine
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Just take it to a small village in BFN and have the local blacksmith repair it
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Failed tube crü!
I think this one started at the DS lug point, then worked rapidly around the front of the tube (and slowly backwards) so the crack in front had made it about 1.5 times around before the rear crack finally reached the forward crack and took my shifting completely to hell. There was enough filth on the BB so I didn’t see the crack until the tube completely failed.
I’ll probably fix it one of these days; I’ll cut & splice the ST, cut the entire BB out, then replace it with a T47 shell.
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I love that there’s people who romanticize framebuilding as some lost art, and then there’s orc shuffling whatever rusty ferrous metals he has all about his house and sticking them together into frame shaped objects, then riding the absolute piss out of them
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This snapped tube chat reminds me that I spotted this guy the other day.
How the hell does one snap a headtube?
SSC: I’m not quite as flakey as I appear; I actually buy honest to g-d lightweight butted tubing for the frames I’ve been building. The only random pile of tubing I’ve got came with the pile of framebuilding stuff I bought from @white_folks a few years ago.
that’s expensive and difficult, especially without a lathe and the ability to borrow the special taps
using an eccentric shell with pinchbolts is much much cheaper, and the giant size will buy you a lot more room to chop the shitty lug out
The one advantage of T47 is that I can use PF30 (with, possibly, a foil wrap to increase interference) until I get around to tracking down a set of taps. The shells themselves aren’t that expensive; American to T47 to PF30 to eccentric runs from $10 to $14 on Nova’s website. Taking out the existing shell and remitering everything to fit the new one is going to be a pain in the butt no matter what, so this isn’t going to happen for a while.
I was looking at this wheel the other day and thought, man it’s a very stiff build, and I’ve had it for years. Then last night I saw the smile… The first front Tune to poop itself. All my rears have except the one on my CX bike.
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Bummer
I did that to a CK rear
Oof. Took a bit to see it.
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The frame was never straight and has been under tension since it was built.
Edit - Here’s a great explanation for how that likely happened.
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That’s very cool. Thank you.
The added explainer is perfect because both frames failed in exactly the same manner.
This is another good one. I love the cut on the headtube showing you how the frame “wants” to be.
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Forgot to take a picture but solved a ghost shifting issue I was experiencing, Brand new chain (less than a month) and a link was bent.
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do you own anything that is not orange or blue?
Are you aware that orange and blue is the color scheme of the Cincinnati soccer kickers?