Re: I have been CHALLENGED. . .

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:41:53 -0700, Dane Buson <dane@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Errr, ride them I suppose. I weigh a touch north of 90 kilos, I like to
ride reasonably fast year round back and forth to work. It has a few
bumpy sections [1], I curbhop a bit, bunnyhop this and that, nothing too
extreme. Heck, I haven't even crashed into anything with them.

This is the original frame, the replacement frame broke in almost the
exact same section. It's not that an unusual a failure mode. But I
would expect more than the 12k and 18k miles I got out of them
respectively. Thankfully the warranty resets when you get a
replacement. So I have until June 2011 to break this one.

http://unixbigots.org/files/bike/dropout.jpg
http://unixbigots.org/files/bike/dropout-closeup.jpg

Have you tried getting a new rear hub, or at least axle? That's the sort
of failure that could conceivably be caused by either not quite aligned
dropouts or a bent axle. It's a break in the cast bit of the dropout, they
wouldn't normally break like that easily.


Jasper
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