Originally Posted by
kevindsingleton
It is fugly, and you've managed to ensure that you'll never be able to see those cracks growing, so death is in your future.
Did you drill the end of the cracks, to stop them from spreading? How did you get the wire wraps tight enough to provide any strength, at all?
I hope it works, but I think you may have wasted some epoxy. It's probably time to start shopping for a new frame, if not a new bike.
Thats about 50cents worth of epoxy and 2$ worth of wire. I get epoxy by the gallon and use it for quite a few things. Wire is tight but does not have to be too tight given the way its embedded in mat. And no, didn't drill the holes. thought about it, but I didn't know what was inside of of where I was drilling. I'm counting on the fact that the fix is so strong there is no way the crack will propagate. And the fuglyness is an anti-theft feature, so that makes it worth more.