Chone

I can't believe my incredibly bad luck, first I tear my bike's Cr-Mo frame, no biggie, I was getting my Rockhopper soon but I wouldn't believe my rotten luck yesterday when I took my buddy's 2003 Jamis Dakar Sport for a ride, since I noticed my hand was not hurting as much I decided to try to bunnyhop, yeah well, a couple more bunnyhops and the frame snapped right at the chainstay/bb welding point lots of rust inside and it wasn't a clean snap either, there were lots of little pieces and tores and it was a mess, I told my friend it wasn't really my fault and that the frame was bogus (he bought it used and god knows what the previous owner put it through) he understood and knew it would happen to him anyway but I still need to pay him his frame, gonna be tough finding him a 2003 Jamis Dakar Sport frame (I ain't getting him a new 2006 Dakar ) but I'm gonna see if the guy who sold him the frame has anything to say about the snap, might also try to go the welding way. I would post pics of the ugly snap but its not my bike and I don't really have access to it.

Well, this sucks big time, I can't believe it happened, I wasn't even stressing the bike, I was just bunnyhopping! and I did only a few small ones (can't really do it all the way because of my injured wrist) and it would have snapped anyway since my friend also likes to huck on that bike.

I hate this

Jason222

Hah! Broken frames suck. At least it wasn't your rockhopper.

C Law

are you sure the Dakar was a steel frame? and that is was an 03

it looks like the dakars for 2003 were built with '7005 triple butted kinesis aluminum' from the 2003 pics on the website

anyway, good thing you didn't get further injured

Chone

Hmm, I don't know if its 2003, could be 2002 but I'm 100$ sure its a frame with 4130 Cr-Mo Steel tubing as indicated by a label on the downside of the top tube, if it was aluminum there wouldn't be any rust anyways so yeah, its definitely a steel frame.

Yeah, at least it wasn't my Rockhopper (though I would have that replaced under warranty ASAP anyways) and at least I wasn't further injured but it still sucks.

Curtis_Elwood

If it was rusted out, why are you obligated to buy him a new frame? Sure, you should help him source a new frame to replace it since you had a tiny hand in breaking it, but it was already doomed. Friends before money, but if he's a good friend, he wouldn't let you pay for it. Just my 2 cents. Good luck finding a frame.

cierrecart

Sounds like you need to quit abusing "cheap" bikes.

Flak

+1

IF my bike was rusted out and a mate of mine accidently broke it bunnyhopping, there is no way in hell I'd ask him to pay for a new frame! I might ask him to come over and be my beer ***** one saturday arvo while i swap parts over to a new frame though