Originally Posted by
dwmckee
No doubt someone will post after me that the we're the lucky one but I bet it is 50 unlucky to 1 lucky one out there that have had successful field weld repairs done.
yes. well, almost. just after the tour, if that counts. ran some tires a little too wide, with only
a few mm clearance. picked up some grit in the rain, sanded a small hole in one chain stay
on the steel mercian.
lucky enough to locate a guy in backwoods virginia who could do braze-on stuff. had his
welding equipment in a little shack out back, with a whole mess of bike frames and frame
parts hanging on the walls. (i'm used to the fellers having all their guns on the walls,
so this was new!). he cut a small piece off another damaged frame, shaped it, brazed
it on. good as new. a little black paint and you'd have to know it was there to find it.