Frame failure experiences

[foxb13]

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The English "f" word being very technical of course.

The French "f" word is also equally very technical.

It was rather the V word in @novocaine answer that got me. I think I've already encountered it as V-cut. Is that the thing? And what exactly is a "V-cut"? How does it differ from a "normal" cut?

 

[Woz]

He means like how you would fill a crack in a wall with Polyfilla. It basically increases surface area for a key and to fill (and later smooth).

 

[Woz]

Oh - @novocaine does not mean "stitched" as in crochet or knitting.

 

[novocaine]

He means like how you would fill a crack in a wall with Polyfilla. It basically increases surface area for a key and to fill (and later smooth).

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What he said.

Oh - @novocaine does not mean "stitched" as in crochet or knitting.

give it a go though. bit of metal crochet, could be interesting if nothing else.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I've seen a frame stitched together with galvanised wire, little holes drilled each side of the break like this:
Sadly, before the days of smartphone, we often didn't have a camera handy to document the outer reaches of the bicycle repair world.

One of those mid 90s polished gts with oversized tubes iirc, crack running up the main tube from the bb weld