Originally Posted by
Live Wire
Ouch. Were you planning on riding this bike?
assuming you can get a seatpost in there, it will be interesting to see if it breaks at the seatstay join or the gusset points first.
yes, of course I'll be riding it. It'll be reamed, so no issues with getting a seatpost in there.
I hope nothing breaks. But if something does, I reckon it'll be the seatstay joint or the binders. I don't see why the gussets would break? They are cosmetic, so the sharp ends won't really start a crack. Plus I doubt I overheated anything, so the metallurgy shouldn't have changed.
Originally Posted by
unterhausen
you should really do something about the chrome. Hope you haven't injured yourself doing this
I held my breath…
the chrome was far enough away from where I was heating, so I unlikely got a whiff of anything too poisonous.