TheAntsPants
Devout Dirtbag
The bike started making some ominous and very loud cracking sounds a few days ago whenever I put the pedal to the metal or hopped off a kerb. Sounded like something was at the end of its life and about to go. Frantically checked around the welds, BB spindle, cranks, pedals, handlebars, stem... nothing. Kept riding, fiddling with headset, swapping rear wheel, tightening bolts... still nothing. The only place I couldn't see well was the BB, so off come the cranks, then I notice the massive crack in the middle of the down tube. :facepalm: Didn't think to look in the middle of a tube :shock:
After exactly 2 days short of 5 years of near constant abuse by me, and Deity knows how much by previous owners, another one bites the dust. Already had to replace the drive side dropout after it snapped. This is the second Explosif I have destroyed through wear and tear. The other ('9 also suffered a crack but at the bottom of the seat tube after more than a decade of hard yakka.
Might have to look in to a more robust frame. Anyone got a spare Hei Hei or King Kahuna lying around?
After exactly 2 days short of 5 years of near constant abuse by me, and Deity knows how much by previous owners, another one bites the dust. Already had to replace the drive side dropout after it snapped. This is the second Explosif I have destroyed through wear and tear. The other ('9 also suffered a crack but at the bottom of the seat tube after more than a decade of hard yakka.
Might have to look in to a more robust frame. Anyone got a spare Hei Hei or King Kahuna lying around?