Originally Posted by IntoThickAir

I've got a serious dent in my top tube, but I've done nothing more than let it stimulate questions. It's a good conversation piece, because then I must explain how I was leaving for Djibouti, Africa, but I couldn't get the bike in the shipping box because the seatpost was stuck, so I dashed down to the local garage where an old fellow with a big wooden mallet....