That incident was 28 years ago KC, I don't remember the details. I spray painted the repair black to protect it for the remainder of the trip and the frame still hangs in my basement. I cleaned the paint off for a previous BF photo-op.

I took at least one subsequent trip on it through the Canadian Rockies after the TransAm. On the return, cycling home to NH from Montreal airport, I noticed a paint bubble with a rust crack growing on the top tube. I then retired the frame. The chainstay joint was still sound.

It was a hand built Reynolds 531 frame from Bill Vetter of Greensboro Bend VT with a custom rack, recently repainted by Tom Kellogg at Spectrum Cycles.

Back to statistics ... There were ten of us in that TransAm group. 10% of our frames failed on that trip. Mine!