Re: Bicycle frame trouble

"jim beam" <spamvortex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Clive George wrote:
"jim beam" <spamvortex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Clive George wrote:
<snip crap>
your wriggling and squirming is pathetic.
fact is, you don't know what you're talking about, you're giving bad, uneconomic and backward looking advice and you don't have the integrity to admit it. but then again, people that don't know stuff rarely know what they don't know.
What's your answer to Andrew Muzi who says he's seen repairs like I suggest which have lasted years?
Seems like I'm right, and it's a bodge which works.

you're right that it's a bodge all right!

It is the cheapest fix - loads cheaper than your preferred option which is effectively a whole new bike.

it's not a fix - it's a bad bodge.

Remind me of your experience with frame repairs like this. Not general materials practice, specific frame repairs. We all know the general points you're making, and have done since the beginning - the question is whether they're important enough in this specific case.

oh, now we're down to "important" - that leaves the door wide open to any old bad advice then. "don't worry, that o-ring problem in that shuttle booster is not important".
fact is, it's "important" not to waste time messing about with hackery. and it's "important" to keep abreast of safety developments like shimmy resistant frame design.

Clive George wrote:
Giggle.

jim beam wrote:
"giggle"??? shimmy resistance is not important? how about brakes? are they not important either???

What's your answer to Andrew Muzi who says he's seen repairs like I suggest
which have lasted years?

jim beam wrote:
my answer is that
http://www.yellowjersey.org/MNRAL6.JPG
is completely unacceptable.

Unacceptable in what venue? Halfway up the Gavia? Or on a $20 commuter bike for a non-technical mathematician who is attached to his beloved old rusty Raleigh?

On a Reynolds bike I replace tubes. On a Huffy I gasweld. Bikes, materials, customer expectations and monetary constraints vary greatly.
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Andrew Muzi
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