So I picked up this frame from retrobike member "hullborn", it was a freebie as it has a crack in the bottom bracket shell. I was told the the crack hadn't worsened during his ownership of the frame, i don't know how much it was ridden in that time though.
There's a Mavic bottom bracket fitted at the moment, it seems smooth enough, so I'm tempted to leave it be and find some suitable cranks and just ride it. There's a lot of material/weld around the BB so I'm thinking it's unlikely to fail catastrophically, I imagine if the crack does propagate across the BB shell then I'll find the BB coming loose or notice play in the cranks.
Is my logic "logical" here?
And can anyone date the frame from the serial number below?
There's a Mavic bottom bracket fitted at the moment, it seems smooth enough, so I'm tempted to leave it be and find some suitable cranks and just ride it. There's a lot of material/weld around the BB so I'm thinking it's unlikely to fail catastrophically, I imagine if the crack does propagate across the BB shell then I'll find the BB coming loose or notice play in the cranks.
Is my logic "logical" here?
And can anyone date the frame from the serial number below?