After nearly two months of searching for the source of a horrible clicking noise, I finally found it about three weeks ago:
Competitive Cyclist (where I bought the bike) handled the warranty, and my new frame arrived this morning (can’t wait to leave work to go look at it). Before they’d ship it out, however, they had me do this (like…with a hacksaw):
So my question, then, is what would you do with a cracked/cut bike frame? Wife doesn’t want it on the wall of our 600 square foot apartment, and I don’t really have anywhere to store it (or anything to do with it really), but it doesn’t feel right to just dump it in the trash. Obviously, it’s NOT rideable and never will be again, but some JB Weld or spackle and paint could make it look fine…I’d love some ideas about what to do with it, and if anyone wants it you can have it for the cost of getting it to you (it’s in Arlington, VA).
I would cut it into lots of pieces and marvel at the internal butting of the tubes. Dig on the welds at the seat tube/top tube intersection. Make a sweet, uh, water pipe. Maybe cut the head tube and part of the top tube and down tube off so it looks like the bike is riding out of a wall. Someone else’s wall, it sounds like. Maybe you could make a porch light out of the piece. That way it would be outside, at least.
Apparently its a pretty common problem on this particular frame. It’s right at the junction of the seat tube and chain stays, so it’s very close to a weldand also gets pressure from the internal seat post mechanism.
They replaced it with the 2011 sl02, which is full carbon (old one was aluminum with carbon stays), but had the same “streampost,” so we’ll see how it holds up.
On my way home to “walk the dog” at lunch to ogle the new frame before building it up this weekend.
Take it to a GOOD welder, and fix it. Good as new.
Heck yeah! I’m a pretty good welder and I would stick that back together pretty quickly. I picked up my current Van Dessel project pr for nothing with a cracked alumn frame. A little machining and welding and it was better than new.
I wouldn’t feel right selling it to someone, but I bet a good welder that is set up to work on aluminum could fix that for a couple hundred and you’d have a usable frame for a trainer bike or something.
tie a rope to the frame and then a rope to the back of your car and find a nice big parking lot. Proceed to drag it all around at a high rate of speed and making sharp turns. Sometimes immature things like this are just what you need at the end of a long work week.
Take it to a GOOD welder, and fix it. Good as new.
Heck yeah! I’m a pretty good welder and I would stick that back together pretty quickly. I picked up my current Van Dessel project pr for nothing with a cracked alumn frame. A little machining and welding and it was better than new.
I wouldn’t feel right selling it to someone, but I bet a good welder that is set up to work on aluminum could fix that for a couple hundred and you’d have a usable frame for a trainer bike or something.
I agree, I wouldnt sell it, but if it were mine, I’d weld it up and make a CX, or a fixie out of it or something.
There’s a dude on this forum, username: styles, quite the artist/sculptor. He could probably make a bitchin’ piece of furniture out of that frame, like an end-table or something.
