Originally Posted by
2old
I had a steel Mongoose IBOC that had a broken rear dropout after many years of hard service. A local welder and frame builder grafted new SS dropouts on for $75 and it had many more years as a SS until it was stolen from my son (the thieves needed to get past a locked fence, locked garage and saw the steel plate in the wall of the garage the bike was U-locked to). As above, we can'ttell without a picture, but it might be possible to reweld it.
Too bad about the stolen IBOC (although I'm impressed by the effort made to steel it, makes one wonder if they knew the bike was there already...). I still have my Tomac Signature (1988 model) and would refinish it if I could source decals). Andy