oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
> Steve, that reminds me that you CAN get away with amazing stuff with
> steel frames.
> A former shop employee of mine & racer girl (Vikki Coffey as many of
> you NC boys will remember.. fast rider, gorgeous and smart) endo-ed her
> DeRosa and Ijacked it back out... she rode it another year and sold it
> to Rick Dedman in Southern Pines (an attorney no less!) who rode it
> another 5 or 6 years! Astounding!
Some steel frames, anyway. I wouldn't try that with a 753 frame!
We had more than a couple crashed 753 frames returned to us at Trek; we'd just build a new frame as a replacement. Reynolds did not recommend cold-setting 753, so we decided to see what would happen using these damaged frames as crash-test dummies. Executive summary: Reynolds wasn't kidding. Rather than taking a cold set, 753 resists completely until a critical threshold, then fails completely.
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA