That's the same spot I've seen two other (heavily-used, but not old) Surlys crack. Drive-side, just behind the chainstay bridge. Both replaced under warranty without a lot of grief.
In a related note, Chainstays seem to be where heavily-used bikes die (eventually). It is a highly-stressed part, though the big-mile bikes that die due to old age ordinarily will break out near the dropout... Best, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 10:50:23 PM UTC-6, hangtownmatt wrote: > > Here is a Surly LHT with a cracked chainstay right about where a kickstand > plate on a Rivendell would be mounted. Granted this bike does have some > miles and has been on the road a while, but he doesn't use a kickstand and > judging from his experience I'd say your lucky if all that happens is the > kickstand plate deforms. What I've derived from all this is that > chainstays are subject to a lot more stress than we realize and are subject > to failure. > > https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=tS&page_id=432317&v=S > > By the way - this is a pretty entertaining blog. Currently he's in > Austrailia and it's pretty boring, but if you follow from the beginning > it's entertaining. I think so anyway. > > Matt > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
