The story of my broken Yo eddy - with a happy ending :-)
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good to know that this frame will be saved! A friend of mine broke his commencal on that exact point. Completely through, so suddenly no more downtube during riding. Fortunately it happened during a climb, just after finishing a fast technical downhill...
yoeddynz
Devout Dirtbag
Bringing up an old thread but latest news is that it's about to get repaired! Finally. I have been slack and not harassed my mate who is repairing it as I have been very much enjoying my turner DW flux. 
I still ride my steel cross bike and my other 1990 yo S/S but it's time to get this one fixed as we have a mission soon. Hannah and I are soon, in sept this year, to ride the Indian himilayas
We were originally gonna just do lots of trekking but relying on booking trains and sticking to time tables is awkward plus we would miss our bikes. Now we are very excited. We will primarily ride the manali to ley road with some awesome climbs ( I love climbs....
) and passes over 5000 meters. Once in ley we will ride the khardung la pass which is 5602 meters!! Whoop.
So excited but must fix bike. Will be awesome to ride one of my yos over there.
I'll be sure to update this thread with photos of repairs etc soon.
Alex
I still ride my steel cross bike and my other 1990 yo S/S but it's time to get this one fixed as we have a mission soon. Hannah and I are soon, in sept this year, to ride the Indian himilayas
We were originally gonna just do lots of trekking but relying on booking trains and sticking to time tables is awkward plus we would miss our bikes. Now we are very excited. We will primarily ride the manali to ley road with some awesome climbs ( I love climbs....
) and passes over 5000 meters. Once in ley we will ride the khardung la pass which is 5602 meters!! Whoop.So excited but must fix bike. Will be awesome to ride one of my yos over there.
I'll be sure to update this thread with photos of repairs etc soon.
Alex
yoeddynz
Devout Dirtbag
WOW. January 2011 was the date I first posted here about my poor frame giving up. Time flies!!!
So an update, a happy one at that, is here.
My friend who was going to mitre the downtube and weld it in place for me was going through some tough times and I ended up getting the frame and tube back to do myself. By this time I had become an OK tig welder having done a fair bit of alloy welding and bit of steel welding in the fabricating of my latest Viva engine swap (see sig..)
However I was by no means and expert and I knew the welds would not be that pretty, but they would be strong. So bugger it I thought- I'll have a go myself! It turned out ok too
Now this took place back in Sept 2013 in my little shed next to the housetruck when we lived at a holiday park. We have now since bought, cleared and worked an 12 acre block of land and while that was going on the frame just got moved about collecting dust. It sat on the wall of our new workshop where I took this photo last year.. ( Sadly the Yeti FRO isn't mine. It belongs to a friend who was visiting.. so lush a bike!)
Hannah pinched the White bros forks for her Broeddy and my '90 Yo finally went through its third BB so it too was up on blocks. My Turner Flux I had bought to 'replace' the Yo was a great ride but had gone through two sets of bushes and was cracking at the seat tube brace. Plus it was 'complicated' fun compared to a sweet steel hardtail. My Genesis Croix de fer was getting a lot more of a hammering because it was closer to the ride I wanted.
Then we booked to ride the Heaphy track and I needed a geared bike with rack mounts. I could have dusted off the 1990 Bontrager I had bought in the UK to ride through the Himalayas but I actually saw this as a good shift kick up the bum to finally clean, paint and reassemble my old love. So I did just that.
The paint job is a quick rattle can job and I used some old spare stickers I had my cousin make left over from when I restored the '90 Yo back in 1998. It will do for now until later on when I get a proper two pack paint job. I had recently bought some colour matched spray cans for my Viva HB Estate I'm currently resurrecting. I like the colour and once on the frame it really looked the part.
Photos of the doing...
Photos of the done..
Finished bike..
That ever so practical disc rear end..
After all the rush to get it finished my knee played up whilst bending awkwardly whilst cutting a cat flap hole in a wall on our truck of all things! :roll: So rather than risk further injury we postponed the ride for a few weeks. I'll post back and let you know how we get on. We did go out the other day for a gentle ride, Hannah on her Broeddy and me on this. Boy was it fantastic to ride again. Most of my lats few months riding has been on my freshly repaired '90 Yo singlespeed (explains knee woes then..) and this bike is just basically a much smoother better braked version. It feels way way nicer to ride than my full sus. Why I cant explain. Just a nicer steering more nimble feeling chassis. That simple good steel feel. I'm stoked to have it back!
Alex
So an update, a happy one at that, is here.
My friend who was going to mitre the downtube and weld it in place for me was going through some tough times and I ended up getting the frame and tube back to do myself. By this time I had become an OK tig welder having done a fair bit of alloy welding and bit of steel welding in the fabricating of my latest Viva engine swap (see sig..)
However I was by no means and expert and I knew the welds would not be that pretty, but they would be strong. So bugger it I thought- I'll have a go myself! It turned out ok too
Now this took place back in Sept 2013 in my little shed next to the housetruck when we lived at a holiday park. We have now since bought, cleared and worked an 12 acre block of land and while that was going on the frame just got moved about collecting dust. It sat on the wall of our new workshop where I took this photo last year.. ( Sadly the Yeti FRO isn't mine. It belongs to a friend who was visiting.. so lush a bike!)
Hannah pinched the White bros forks for her Broeddy and my '90 Yo finally went through its third BB so it too was up on blocks. My Turner Flux I had bought to 'replace' the Yo was a great ride but had gone through two sets of bushes and was cracking at the seat tube brace. Plus it was 'complicated' fun compared to a sweet steel hardtail. My Genesis Croix de fer was getting a lot more of a hammering because it was closer to the ride I wanted.
Then we booked to ride the Heaphy track and I needed a geared bike with rack mounts. I could have dusted off the 1990 Bontrager I had bought in the UK to ride through the Himalayas but I actually saw this as a good shift kick up the bum to finally clean, paint and reassemble my old love. So I did just that.
The paint job is a quick rattle can job and I used some old spare stickers I had my cousin make left over from when I restored the '90 Yo back in 1998. It will do for now until later on when I get a proper two pack paint job. I had recently bought some colour matched spray cans for my Viva HB Estate I'm currently resurrecting. I like the colour and once on the frame it really looked the part.
Photos of the doing...
Photos of the done..
Finished bike..
That ever so practical disc rear end..
After all the rush to get it finished my knee played up whilst bending awkwardly whilst cutting a cat flap hole in a wall on our truck of all things! :roll: So rather than risk further injury we postponed the ride for a few weeks. I'll post back and let you know how we get on. We did go out the other day for a gentle ride, Hannah on her Broeddy and me on this. Boy was it fantastic to ride again. Most of my lats few months riding has been on my freshly repaired '90 Yo singlespeed (explains knee woes then..) and this bike is just basically a much smoother better braked version. It feels way way nicer to ride than my full sus. Why I cant explain. Just a nicer steering more nimble feeling chassis. That simple good steel feel. I'm stoked to have it back!
Alex
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