Originally Posted by
UBUvelo
but how hard to ride it...
is this aluminum? steel?
i just bent my head-on crash rigid fork back and it 'seems' fine, but i know it isn't what it used to be...might just use it for light duty...
A chainstay is not a fork.
Aluminum will crack, and even if the chainstay were to break, you could finish a race on it, it would just feel as if you had a noodly frame or wheel.
Remember that stage of the Tour when Armstrong got his bar hooked on an old lady's purse and went down? He broke his chainstay and finished the mountain stage on it, and that was carbon fiber.