Long story... we have a customer with a lovely steel Condor Fratello road bike and his ageing Campag bottom bracket has seized so firmly into the frame that we've managed to break the vice with the force we were putting into the thing! (while heating BB shell, cooling BB, soaked in Plus Gas, etc)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkKm5A3hVZA
Rather than go down the potentially expensive route of getting a framebuilder to melt / cut the thing out and then re-spray the frame, he's asked us to look for a replacement. We bought a great-looking 53cm Dawes Audax 631 on eBay that was just the right size... and Parcel Farce lost it.
Does anyone have something appropriate they could sell us? Ideally under around £150, he doesn't want anything too exotic as it's going to be a commuter with a rack and mudguards. eBay is full of either bigger or smaller (or much older) frames, there doesn't seem to be anything suitable on here or on any of the usual suspects' forums. I'd appreciate any pointers you can offer!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkKm5A3hVZA
Rather than go down the potentially expensive route of getting a framebuilder to melt / cut the thing out and then re-spray the frame, he's asked us to look for a replacement. We bought a great-looking 53cm Dawes Audax 631 on eBay that was just the right size... and Parcel Farce lost it.
Does anyone have something appropriate they could sell us? Ideally under around £150, he doesn't want anything too exotic as it's going to be a commuter with a rack and mudguards. eBay is full of either bigger or smaller (or much older) frames, there doesn't seem to be anything suitable on here or on any of the usual suspects' forums. I'd appreciate any pointers you can offer!
