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Scott Gordo
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On Nov 2, 5:00 pm, Paul Myron Hobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is sort of a bummer...
>
> I dropped my wrench today (it was in my pocket after using it in my lab)
> right after I unlocked and walked my bike over to the curb. I leaned it
> against one of bollards that keep cars but allow maintenance cars to
> come up to the civil engineering bldg. As I was picking up the wrench,
> my bike fell down. I picked it up, and found this:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/p_myron_h/tags/dent/
>
> It's a steel bike (Butted Reynolds 520 tubing). The deepest part of the
> dent is 325 mm from the center of the head tube; actual top tube length
> is ~550 mm. So I guess this dent is in the section with thinner walls.
>
> So the million dollar question: Safe to ride? My gut says yes, but you
> never know.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> \\paul
Of COURSE it had to hit just between the inner-tube wrapped sections.
Makes you want to shake your fists at the sky, doesn't it?
I've got worse top-tube dents on a track bike and an mtb that have
seen a lot of hard miles since their respective incidents without
failure.
/s
> This is sort of a bummer...
>
> I dropped my wrench today (it was in my pocket after using it in my lab)
> right after I unlocked and walked my bike over to the curb. I leaned it
> against one of bollards that keep cars but allow maintenance cars to
> come up to the civil engineering bldg. As I was picking up the wrench,
> my bike fell down. I picked it up, and found this:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/p_myron_h/tags/dent/
>
> It's a steel bike (Butted Reynolds 520 tubing). The deepest part of the
> dent is 325 mm from the center of the head tube; actual top tube length
> is ~550 mm. So I guess this dent is in the section with thinner walls.
>
> So the million dollar question: Safe to ride? My gut says yes, but you
> never know.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> \\paul
Of COURSE it had to hit just between the inner-tube wrapped sections.
Makes you want to shake your fists at the sky, doesn't it?
I've got worse top-tube dents on a track bike and an mtb that have
seen a lot of hard miles since their respective incidents without
failure.
/s
