Originally Posted by
Kontact
Ah, so your comments did not pertain to the newest failure?
This one?
Not specifically, no. But that did prompt me to add my comment, intended as more of a generalization than specific to this latest failure.
That's a 1989 steel framed Panasonic? I'd like to know more about its history over the 36 years since fabrication, what condition the rest of the frame components were in once that damage became evident.
In the pic I see rust migrated through paint at the juncture of the seat tube / down tube / chain stay join. Everything manmade fails in time.