Old 06-24-20, 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted by cudak888
Gotcha. Yes, exactly.

In all fairness, the time trial funny bike frame had been crashed though, and I noticed this only after repeatedly having trouble cold-setting it. I also wonder whether the BB may have been overheated by the builder to match up with the straight-up tube.

Before:



After:



Oops.





-Kurt
Was the seat tube already curved before it was "fixed"? That before picture looks like there's plenty wrong with it and I'm skeptical that the chroming had anything to do with the failure - though it likely hid the evidence for a while.
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