1993 Manitou FS

[Dare]

It is wonderful! Very very tastefully assembled. You made this "complicated" looking bike look really "clean".
(hope you know what I mean, my english vocabulary is 5 pages long…)

 

[nutallabrot]

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I've ben riding mine for years without any cracked headtube issues, however, I use a headset reducer. Maybe this helps.

Perfect build by the way

 

[Giom6]

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Perfect build by the way

Thanks

Still got a few tweaks to do but all in good time...

 

[Retro Spud]

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I've been riding mine for years without any cracked headtube issues, however, I use a headset reducer. Maybe this helps.

Perfect build by the way

Heres the result of my Bad day at the Office & one less crack free virgin FS

Guess you pays your money and take your chances.... "to ride or not to ride".

its now just like 99% of the others :cry:


bizarrely (perhaps not) now its turned a bit colder the obvious crack as seen below has closed up a lot, still very visible and not open like the picture. Given we don't have summers in the UK like Southern California, there's no way heat was the culprit,

I guess after 22 years the Aluminium wasn't as strong as it once was...... and I'm a Pr1ck for wanting to ride it at Mountain Mayhem :facepalm:
Thank god I never entered it for a lap :shock:



Spud©™

 

[Minifreak]

Oh bugger, feel for you mate

Hope your planning of getting it fixed and strengthened.

 

[Retro Spud]

Oh bugger, feel for you mate

Hope your planning of getting it fixed and strengthened.

TBH I just put it safely away and haven't looked at it twice since.

Deffo gonna get it repaired, just need to find a highly skilled welder who can weld it up without it looking like a seam on an industrial Oil pipe etc

Now its no longer crack free I suppose I've got a little more licence to enjoy it, so long as the repair is possible. If it was a little more sensational I'd enter the pic above in this months "Broken Bike" POTM

Anyway, enough of my woes and thread high jacking.

 

[Giom6]

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That's real bad luck mate, you must have been gutted, I know I would be. I think my heart would sink...

Hopefully you'll find somebody who can do the work for you and make it like me new...sort of...

 

[ti_pin_man]

I sent mine to frank the welder, its been there a while but has had a new headtube fitted and some chainsuck marks cleaned up. It'll be home soon and hopefully crack free. Its not a cheap option for repair but I just felt it deserved some real love. These bikes are true icons of the era, perhaps THE most iconic. If you want more details PM me.

 

[Davichin]

Feeling sorry for that, Retro Spud... Mine is still untracked but somehow I feel it will crack on its, soon to take place, maiden ride.
The worst thing is not cracking it, but knowing it will easily crack somewhere else after repair...

I have read about the use of headset reducers but, in the end, the force received by the tube is exactly the same with or without the reducer so I am not sure about its effectiveness.

 

[Ollie]

Looks fantastic Gio !