Broken frame

croggy
croggy Posts: 116
edited November 2008 in Workshop
While out riding today the bike today it started making a creaking noise which I thought was coming from the bottom bracket.A few miles on and the creaking got louder then stopped and the front end started to wobble.I dismounted and saw the frame had come apart where the head tube meets the down tube leaving it suspended by the shifter cables :shock: .I had to get a taxi home.
The frame is a 25 year old Woodrup that has served me well and covered about 70,000 miles.Tomorrow I shall go see Mr.Woodrup and enquire about a new frame.

Comments

  • Isn't that how slingshot bikes got started?
    Sorry :oops:

    If its a steel frame, why not re-weld it?
    jedster wrote:
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  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    Isn't that how slingshot bikes got started?
    Sorry :oops:

    But really, wasn't it though? I vaguely remember some of their marketing along those lines, "My bike broke and then rode better", etc.
  • croggy
    croggy Posts: 116
    Isn't that how slingshot bikes got started?
    Sorry :oops:

    If its a steel frame, why not re-weld it?
    The down tube is completely detatched from the head tube and there is corrosion inside the tubes.Also the paint on the stays is starting to bubble which in my mind means there is something bad happening there.Plus the left BB thread is partly stripped.
    Time for a new frame :D
  • gavintc
    gavintc Posts: 3,009
    There are other options out there now than simply an old steel frame.
  • croggy
    croggy Posts: 116
    gavintc wrote:
    There are other options out there now than simply an old steel frame.
    Yes I'm aware of that.I have an aluminium framed road bike.Not really a fan of carbon fibre so a new 631 frame has been ordered,I just have to wait ten weeks :D
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    Re Slingshot: Vindicated!

    http://www.mombat.org/Slingshot.htm
  • croggy
    croggy Posts: 116
    balthazar wrote:
    Re Slingshot: Vindicated!

    http://www.mombat.org/Slingshot.htm

    :lol: