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Just from the photo I'd say there's more then a cracked braze/joint. The gap between the bridge's end and the stay suggests a possible rear drop out width mod gone bad. Or an impact repair previously done. Either way I'd be suspect of the other end's joint. Andy

I agree with Andrew. The rear end needs to be aligned properly before a new stay can be installed.

Good news is that the paint job won't be much of a loss when brazing the bridge.:lol:

hard to say, it looks like it just needs to be polished. I'm a little surprised a Crescent broke there, they always impressed me as having workmanlike construction. But I suppose if you start bending on them, bad things can happen.

The problem isn't the structural integrity of the brake bridge after the repair, it's the fact that a huge gap now exists between the seatstay and the brake bridge, which leads us to believe that there's some other issue that needs to be resolved (like the re-spacing of the rear dropouts). If I were doing the repair, I'd be checking the rear dropout alignment and spacing, and putting in a new brake bridge fitted to the correct length.

It's been shown over and over that well made frames (note that caveat) can and do work quite well with no bridges. Now the choice to only run a single brake is an easy one. Andy

I guess you have to ask yourself how much of the rest of the bike was done by the guy who brazed the brake bridge on

While I read of Crescent's quality being pretty nice the ones I say during the mid 1970s bike boom were pretty crude. And that's coming from someone who worked in a Raleigh shop... Like Eric my reply is along the lines of "but this "well made" bike broke". Andy