Re: [CR] Was "Market Slump", Now "Deal Breaker?"

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:03:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: [CR] Was "Market Slump", Now "Deal Breaker?"


The bike is certainly rideable with the crack as-is. I had a similar crack and asked about it on the framebuilders mailing list about 2.5 years ago. The almost-unanimous opinion is to just drill and polish a stop-hole and use a very-long seatpost, maybe a 400mm MTB seatpost, because the seatpost forms the butting at the top of the seat tube.

Here is my crack (and the thread) for reference :

http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=framebuilders.10708.0377.eml

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA