HA! Funny to hear a Hillborne suffered a similar fate. I don't think I'm particularly aggressive or abusive, and the most likely cause of failure was this being a random frameswap with a friend who got it for free on craigslist, so god knows what kind of treatment it got in it's heyday. Lost an 80's Raleigh Grand Prix with chrome fork blades in that trade that I bet will be rocking Portland for another decade...
I think I've seen past my retrothrifty grouch limitations and will instead splurge for the Waterford 64cm Sam Hillborne to replace this. I briefly wrestled with going to the Surly darkside for a 70% discount, but with my weird proportions and fixation on having another piece of (Now MUSA!) Rivendell beautility/sculpture, it just seems like the only way to go. Once you drink the Petersen Kool-Aid, it's really hard to break from the RBW way. Bigass frames, skyhigh stems, magnificent lugwork, low BB's, the whole gleaming freakin' package. This style/design of riding really has changed my life in the best of ways, most importantly in making not operating a car in a sprawly Southern city not only possible, but positively enjoyable; emphasis on da Joy. I think the broke-beat-busted-but-not-disgusted Trek frame is going to make a great piece of artwork too though. Cant decide whether to saw off the fork/headtube and mount it in the living room, or let it gracefully rust away as garden decor. On Oct 27, 2:52 am, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > I've seen one other frame crack that way (more or less), and... It was a > Hillborne! The story behind the headline was that the rider had less finesse > and more unbridled raw power than anyone I've ever seen ride a bike. He never > rode an inch without either sprinting hard out of the saddle or mashing the > brakes. Every ride, no matter how casual, was abusive in the extreme to his > bicycle frame and every component. When he came in with a cracked headtube in > his rather newish Sam, we were not terribly shocked. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
