Old 10-06-13 | 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina
I hope you're ok.

That look excessive based on the fact that it shattered in the middle of the top tube. I've t-boned stuff at greater speed and although I was bent and broken my bike was fine.

If the frame was going to fail I would expect to see a failure at the junctions between the top tube, down tube and head tube but not in the middle of a tube like that. Not at those speeds.
I was thinking the same thing. A few years ago I plowed into a curb at 18mph/30kph and it just snapped the head tube clean off:



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