That sucks, but cool picture! Glad you're ok. You can see on the crack how it's progressed over time. I'm presuming that from right to left, where it's dark/old rust that's been there a while then the orange/fresh rust part is more recent, and finally the silverish part the final catastrophic crack.
On Oct 25, 3:12 pm, Mike S <mikeshalj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Damn y'all, busted the headtube lug on my restored 1986ish Trek 520 > today. Picture of the carnage available here:http://imgur.com/FbafN > > I noticed the fork felt really shaky when cornering for a few days, > maybe a week, and when it felt unsafely, 'bout-to-blow shaky after a > short ride today, I checked it out to notice a crack running all > around the headtube lug. It managed to make it home the 3 miles I > needed to get home, but sadly, my reclamation project and it's $300 > powdercoat are headed for the scrapyard. > > Given the exuberant faith we all have in lugged steel, I thought this > bike would surely last me a decade and many thousands of miles, hence > the steep powdercoat investment. Unfortunately, I am now down a frame > that has all kinds of fancy Rivvish parts attached to it. I have a > Quickbeam as my other ride, but I am now looking to upgrade to a > Rivendell road frame. > > I feel foolish for not just saving up for a new Sam in the first > place, and you can tell I was pining for one by the copycat orange > powdercoat. Alas, I am looking to get (ideally) a used 64cm Sam to > replace this, but I'm also interested in any tall Atlantis or Rambo or > Redwood or other stout-enough-for-touring Rivendell frames that might > be out there. I'm sure the Waterford 64 that RBW sells is sweet, but > the $450 markup over Taiwanese is a little rich for my blood. > > SO, I would love to hear about any tall-person Rivendell frames that > might be out there for sale. Sorry to abuse any illusions that lugged > steel is indestructible, too! -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
