got a nice nokian tyre burn on my head tho, crappy waste a money tires, not that i paied for them but still...
dunno what would have been worse a 3" nokian or a hookworm...
dunno what would have been worse a 3" nokian or a hookworm...
Grizzle said:That is a total manufacturing defect. If you look at the weld, there was no penetration to the lower piece of metal, just the upper one. Basically, the person doing the welding was not using a hot enough arc, probably because they were afraid of burning a hole in the aluminum. Its a pretty weld, but not an effectiv weld. Whenever i weld aluminum, i either weld it from both sides, or lay down two beads, one on top of the other, so that the weld is absolutely the strongest part of the tubing. If they did not cover that, i would never buy anything from them again, same with any company that will not cover a weld break.
Sh*t dude! My worst mishap is when I broke the rear dropout in half on my '03 Specialized P.1.Urban FR'er 666 said:Here are my worst Frame/component Faillures:
1st was my AZONIC EVOLUTION , The Head-tube snapped off, when I only got 2' of air!!!
2nd was my HANE-STINK/ PLANET-X BOMMER set-up , The fork steerer bent after only 3 days of riding, and at the same ime ovalized the H-tube of the P-X. bommer!!! :angry:
3rd was when I cracked PROFILE steel cranks on my CLIFCAT TANKASS !!!
4th was my KHS FR2000 , which the rear disk side drop-out was ripped-off by the break when I was doing s rock-walk!!!
5th(and most recent) was when I ovalized the h-tube of the CLIFCAT TANKASS !!! :angry:
So, whats your worst failed bike/part(try to include pics. if you got them)???
you haven't looked hard enough then...Urban FR'er 666 said:That's the first SPOOKY I've seen broken, but atleast there was a good reason behind the failure!
I've never seen you break anything Mike. Since obviously you do, why the false rumors, "ahhem Chris Bates ahhem"?motomike said:1.) bent a set of cranks when I hit a dog while road riding.
2.) several broken handlebars, seats, derailleurs, and wheels.
3.) punchured a hole in my 888 in a rock garden.
not too bad, I'm lucky.
:nuts:narlus said:you haven't looked hard enough then...
Jayridesacove said:I just like to break derailleurs.
Hope that your experience is not an indication of Canadian metalwork quality.norco-freerider said:snapped the chainstays on my vps shore, then snapped my seat tube /main pivot weld on my scream a few months ago
norco-freerider said:snapped the chainstays on my vps shore, then snapped my seat tube /main pivot weld on my scream a few months ago
werd! what the hell are you guys doing to break all of that stuff? didnt you know: dorps to falt r teh suxors...gemini2k said:man, how do you guys break all this **** so much? I thought I was hard on my stuff. But i mean cracking multiple uber-strong fork lowers and such, geez, you guys must case stuff really hard really frequently
that is a wierd break. You are unlucky maybe.igxqrrl said:
This was on the slickrock trail at Moab. The biggest drop I've done is around 2 feet, and I'm about 210 pounds, so I'm not all that hard on frames.
On the bright side, it wasn't a particularly disastrous failure.
That's fairly common, steel springs will do that over time especially if over preloaded.this:
pic doesn't show it, but the main body had also started to separate from the coupling between it and the resi.