And today I did......

[tack4]

DX hubs Mavic rims and Conti Vertcals scrubbed up nice

 

[Ollie]

Great Day:
Road ride from friends house into Durham, Coffee and sandwich stop. Then back to his parents house to wish his dad a happy birthday. Back home to clean my bike, then a red hot bath, soon to be greeted with a lamb roast dinner and rhubarb crumble. Now lazing in front of the fire.
Perfection .

 

[fjpshaw]

Ooft! First thought was that that is an ex seat tube. But, with a proper clamp at the top of the seat tube, plus an appropriately sized Kona dog collar type contraption under the seatstay welds, that might not be as terminal as first seems. I would probably drill the end of the cut though, to reduce the risk of crack propagation.

seat post out this is the concern

 

[jimo746]

If the frame is steel then you could get it welded up, should be cheap and quickk to do, but you'd lose the paint around that area, as it's plain red it'd be fairly easy to patch it up though to a reasonable standard.

If it's aluminium then errr..... as above drill a hole at the end of the crack and hopefully that'll stop it in its tracks.

How did you not notice that you were cutting through the seat tube as well as the seat post?!

 

[RobMac]

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Can we stop refering to it as a crack a crack is a break this is a man made cut.
The size of that seat stay bridge wouldn't allow the cut to open any further, stick a deep/thick seat coller on that seat tube and it'll be fine. BTW welding/brazing that cut would be a piece of cake.

 

[DynaCol]

Re:

It's bad Craic if nothing else Rob .

The frame is a Cro-Mega so steel and should be good for welding without too much fear of it failing catastrophically. I'd go down the route of welding rather than some bodged collar.

 

[epicyclo]

I would just clean up the inside of the seat tube and then epoxy the seatpost in at the right height.

It's not as if you're going to be able to sell it now.

AND you'll save the minuscule weight of a seat clamp.

 

[RobMac]

Re:

You can tell I'm on holiday this week I've got the chest/throat cold from hell :facepalm:
So much for me going away for two or three days camping on the bike.

 

[LikeClockwork]

Re: Re:

You can tell I'm on holiday this week I've got the chest/throat cold from hell :facepalm:
So much for me going away for two or three days camping on the bike.

Not much consolation I know, but us soft southern shandies have it too.... 'there's a lot of it about' as yer mother used to say.... :shock:

 

[RobMac]

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A sound like Barry White just now ....................... I'll phone you later x