Re: [CR]Bent axles

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Columbus:SLX)

Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:27:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: "devon warner" <crabulux@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Bent axles
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <20060913205306.8667.qmail@web33510.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


ok, i weigh maybe 120 with my shoes and a back pack on and just was told at the bike shop that i have a bent axle on my 10 year old campy-hubbed rear wheel. too much riding down curbs? i have never had this experience before with any bike i know of. this is on a 1982-ish bianchi that i don't believe has any allignment problem.
-devon warner
san francisco


--- brian wrote:


> I bought Phil Wood hubs to build replacement stock
> wheels for my 72 Raleigh Super Course in 1977. OEM
> Normandy and replacement Campagnolo axles failed
> under my 140 lb mass, misaligned dropouts?. I also
> snapped a Raleigh BB axle on my Raleigh Sports
> around 1974. I weighed 105-125 lbs about that time.
> Cheap carbon steel with stamped numbers. I would
> grind up a very steep hill at the end of my paper
> route and one day the left pedal just let go.
> Failure was a spiral torsional shear fatigue
> failure. Brian Blum in Connecticut, back then
> anyways.
>
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Devon warner San Francisco 277-2562 (w) 596-6064 (c)

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