Originally Posted by
edwardmccaughan
has anyone ever actually had it done and survived to tell the tale?
Herman Veldhuizen's trip from Norway to Nepal had his frame break three times:
First time it broke in Ukraine and was welded:
http://www.hermanveldhuizen.com/wp/?p=141
This weld lasted until a little past the Kazakhstan border where Herman's trip report says, "Also my frame breaks again at the same place as before. It is my own made enforcement of the rear triangle which keeps the frame together." :
http://www.hermanveldhuizen.com/wp/?p=145
He continues further through Kazakhstan when "My back wheel swings from left to right. I get off my bike and I see that my rear triangle is now broken on both! sides.":
http://www.hermanveldhuizen.com/wp/?p=146
At that point he gets a replacement bicycle shipped to him to complete the rest of the trip.