Originally Posted by
wanders
(chainstay)
Interesting. Most chainstay failures I've seen were from from chain suck, wheel rub, or manufacturing issues. If you didn't have the first two...
The oversize bearing story is interesting. A dealer told me that said company made the frames wrong for a bit, the bearing seats in the BB were too wide by a smidgen. Instead of replacing all the frames they sent out oversize bearings to the dealers. They corrected the bearing seat for later frames.