Originally Posted by
pacificcyclist
Same thing with a steel bike repaired on the field. No one is guaranteeing that it will be safe to ride forever.
The whole idea behind a repair in the field is that it is intended to get you from out in the middle of absolutely nowhere to somewhere ... to a place where you can make or acquire a more permanent solution, or to the end of your tour.
A repair in the field is not necessarily meant to provide a permanent solution.
When I put a granola bar wrapper in my tire to boot it, it was not with the intention that I would ride with the wrapper in place until the whole tire eventually disintegrates ... by the same token, when someone does a frame repair, or any sort of makeshift repair, out in the middle of nowhere, it is not necessarily with the intention that they'll ride that way forever.
Here's one ... I had a rack bolt shear with about a month to go on my 3-month tour of Australia, and it sheared when my cycling partner and I were out in some small town in the middle of nowhere. With no bolts of the correct size readily available, I ran a ziptie through the holes and ziptied my rack to my frame. It stayed like that till the end of the tour.