Still Ridable?
01-09-06, 01:00 PM
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Still Ridable?
I got this frame from someone a while back. It's a Zullo frame, with Columbus tubing, but he crashed it and the head and down tube are bent in enough maybe to change the angle of the head tube. He said he kept riding it even after the crash. It's too big for me, but I wanted to know if I should bother to try to sell it or what.
01-09-06, 01:04 PM
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looks like sculpture material to me
01-09-06, 01:07 PM
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Yup. What he said^
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01-09-06, 02:36 PM
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Wher'd u Get That Jacket?
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You can (maybe) fix it. They make tools to straighten frames like that. Pinky at Revolution used to fix messed up messenger frames like that from time to time.
01-09-06, 03:05 PM
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The thing is, it is a mass produced steel frame, not exactly a gem. Not even really a diamond in the rough. Probably you could fix it, but why would you want to? (No offense)
01-09-06, 03:26 PM
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With that kind of crinkling, even straightening would likely leave the metal brittle. Sketchville.
01-09-06, 03:27 PM
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yeah, sure, unless you're really hard up, you could just buy another road bike of similar quality and transfer any parts you may want to keep.
