On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:29 AM, tarik saleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The right attitude is exactly what David said, Mike is a frame > breaking animal and it should be a point of pride. Ride it, break it, > fix it, ride it. > > Tarik > i should have added "inspect it". The nice part about steel is that you should be able to see the crack before it gets to the catastrophic point, but you have to look. Right chainstay and dropout, under the downtube near the headtube, right at the lug point if you have a lug point there. Seat tube above the bb and and around at the top tube/seatstay junction. Those are probably the most common places steel frame fail. Lower headtube around the lug is also possible if there have been brazing gaps or overcooking. Around water bottle bosses in the down tube if they are unreinforced and overcooked.... Just look over the frame once, twice or thrice a year.... Tarik -- Tarik Saleh tas at tariksaleh dot com in los alamos, po box 208, 87544 http://tariksaleh.com all sorts of bikes blog: http://tsaleh.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
