Looking for quick responses: two breaks in my touring bike frame, chuck it or ship it
09-29-15, 05:05 AM
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Looking for quick responses: two breaks in my touring bike frame, chuck it or ship it
I'm finished my tour across Canada, and my bike hasn't made it unscathed. The rear mounting rack point on the left, and the chainstay on the right side has broken off from where you insert the rear tire. I got it welded and the weld broke. The frame also has a dent on the tube between the seat and the head tube - I can't remember the name.
I planned on building up a road bike when I'm home and selling this one. The frame cost me 140$, shipping will be somewhere around 100$.
I can't upload pictures, hopefully this illustrates what's happened. I have the tools to take it apart. Just looking for thoughts of what you would do in the scenario.
I planned on building up a road bike when I'm home and selling this one. The frame cost me 140$, shipping will be somewhere around 100$.
I can't upload pictures, hopefully this illustrates what's happened. I have the tools to take it apart. Just looking for thoughts of what you would do in the scenario.
09-29-15, 06:01 AM
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Trash it, and skip the shipping.
09-29-15, 06:55 AM
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how much do you think you'll get selling a broken frame bike?
09-29-15, 07:05 AM
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I would take all the components off the frame, down to the bottom bracket and even headset, and bring it all home with me. Frame stays. Bring the fork with you, even. Why not?- at worst it can be a valuable donation to a co-op if you don't need/want it.
09-29-15, 08:34 AM
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Decades ago a friend of mine bent a frame by riding into a concrete curb. I asked him how much he wanted for the wheels, he gave me the complete bike. I stripped everything off the bike and put most of the frame in the trash.
But, first I cut off a seatstay with rear dropout (Campy dropout) and with some grinding managed to make a nice bottle opener. It is hard to find a good Campy bottle opener these days.
My dad got out the hacksaw and made a wind chime out of the frame tubes, but it took a lot of cutting to get the harmonics just right so that the tubes had the right tones.
If you have to make a cardboard box out of a big piece of cardboard to ship your wheels, a pizza cutting wheel is very useful to score the cardboard before you try to fold it.
But, first I cut off a seatstay with rear dropout (Campy dropout) and with some grinding managed to make a nice bottle opener. It is hard to find a good Campy bottle opener these days.
My dad got out the hacksaw and made a wind chime out of the frame tubes, but it took a lot of cutting to get the harmonics just right so that the tubes had the right tones.
If you have to make a cardboard box out of a big piece of cardboard to ship your wheels, a pizza cutting wheel is very useful to score the cardboard before you try to fold it.
09-29-15, 09:24 AM
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Yea what everyone else said.... trash the frame. Strip e4verything else to ship or carry-on.
09-29-15, 11:41 AM
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You don't want to sell a broken frame, not in today's litigious society. Imagine the debacle that could result when the hapless buyer (even fully informed) builds it up despite your warnings, rides it and wrecks, whether as a result of the breakage or not. He might come after you. You've been warned.
09-29-15, 11:48 AM
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Strip It, Remove and Box the components you want to Keep , and Discard the frame .
Lean it against a Dumpster, If someone else Wants to try to fix it ... If they don't get the repair working ..
You have washed your hands of It.
If Well Done, thats another story... I'm still using a old Stumpie Frame I replaced the dropouts On , in 1990.
Lean it against a Dumpster, If someone else Wants to try to fix it ... If they don't get the repair working ..
You have washed your hands of It.
If Well Done, thats another story... I'm still using a old Stumpie Frame I replaced the dropouts On , in 1990.
09-29-15, 02:37 PM
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Awesome, thanks for the input. I brought it to a tiny bike shop today and had the owner remove the components I didn't have the tools to remove myself. It'll all be put in a box or something I picked up.
09-30-15, 12:50 AM
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you never said.....aluminium or steele?
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