Originally Posted by
cp256
My cousin Chris had a beautiful Red MKM in 1980. It was just like the one on their "Magnficent 7" catalogue cover. I watched it get destroyed when a car blew off a red light I think at Comm Ave & Babcock St in Boston. He hit it in the door and flew over its roof. The frame fared worse than he did. The top and down tubes bent just behind the head tube. It was heart breaking. I was lucky that I was behind him rather than next to him or my almost new Klein would have been history too.
I have no idea how this story relates to whippy frames. My first year at BU was spent at the dorms at Commonwealth and Babcock, and that is also nothing to do with whippy frames.