Originally Posted by robatsu

That is kind of my thinking. Back in the good old days, I had a Columbus SLX Tommaso. I wrecked it at least twice. I say good old days because I was then young & uninformed enough that, post-accident, I just hopped back on the bike and since everything felt ok, kept on riding the bike. Eventually, years later, I parted the bike out for sale and discovered that in one of these wrecks I had bent the frame enough that there was some visible bubbling/waviness on the bottom sides of the top/down tubes.

But I never noticed a thing and got many thousands of miles out of this thing after my last wreck on it. So now, I'll be quite happy if I'm able to spit out my bite of the apple from the tree of bike knowledge and ride this thing again in blissful ignorance if I can get it reasonably trued up. While the frame life may be theoretically foreshortened, I'm not worried about catastrophic failure w/no warning, that is the nice thing about steel frames.

Oh, and hey Scott, yeah, I'm getting back to things. Following the accident, I was seriously out of action for some months, broken bones, etc. But I rode some last fall and winter. I've been in Japan for a few months lately, I still don't have a bike here, but I'll be back in the states in about a month and am looking forward to a nice summer of riding.