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holy crap
Is anyone else imagining it like a tyre puncture where the frame will just deflate into a floppy mess when you pull that out? no? just me then...
Details?
Is it a sticker?
Sticker?
EDIT: Damn you sir!
Is that a Stumpy?
It's lucky it wasn't an alu frame, or someone would have been killed!
Looks corked to me
On the bright side, new frame for Christmas!
He was having trouble with water collecting around the bottom bracket, so he drilled a big hole to let it out. Then had a problem with water getting in through the hole, so a cork was the obvious solution. Simples.
crank jibber or clumsy pie boy?
At least it never went into/through the rider's foot!
IIRC someone posted a pic. on here (or the pre-hacked Singletrack) of a brand new titanium frame that had been punctured in a similar place by a piece of flint.
*strokes 9lb aluminium Supreme SX frame* - "there's a good boy, no stick will penetrate you, your not like all these snowflake 5lb carbon frames".
ouch
Anyway George, on a more serious note - is the flora round your way contaminated with depleted uranium? 😀
Want to borrow some T-Cut?
raybanwomble
Anyway George, on a more serious note – is the flora round your way contaminated with depleted uranium? 😀
Thankfully not my bike was shared on Facebook. I'm firmly in the aluminium and steell camp
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crank jibber
Defo a jibber, that bashguard has had a hard life
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Think yourself lucky someone I know had their scrotum skewered by a stick while sledging.
avdave2
Think yourself lucky someone I know had their scrotum skewered by a stick while sledging.
Some of those cricket boys have short fuses
100% fixable.....
That looks quite impressive, though it would be interesting to see it all cleaned up without the bash protector. The damage appears to be local, much like a large dent in an ali frame (and I am guessing an ali frame would have suffered a pretty large dent). Can't see why a repair wouldn't work.
Also, a bit like a helmet. I bet that without the bash protector that stick would have glanced off not stuck in... 😉
The damage appears to be local, much like a large dent in an ali frame (and I am guessing an ali frame would have suffered a pretty large dent). Can’t see why a repair wouldn’t work.
If a Trek or a Giant, sure. But my SX is built like a T-34 tank around there, they've used a very thick gauge aluminium tubeset and quite extreme butting. Plus the downtube guard isn't a thin piece of rubber - it's a thick solid piece of plastic. I had a rock that look like it weighed a good pound thrown up into it - nothing. No dent underneath despite the most horrific clang I've ever heard.
It does of course weight 9lb without a shock though, which is the downside I suppose! But I built everything else light, I figure - heavy frame - light components. Centralise mass and hopefully the components will collapse/explode before the frame does in a heavy landing.
jam bo
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Is it a sticker?
Is it a logo?
I woodn't know if I would ride that afterwards!
Is it a stick?
FTFY
OMG that looks awful.
A pressfit bottom bracket on a mountain bike.
+1 for repairable. There are a few good threads here on DIY carbon repairs if you fancy a bash yourself. It won't be pretty though!
I'm surprised and concerned that a rotten looking relatively thin (~1cm?) branch has gone through carbon like that though. It doesn't look mega sharp or anything. Was it sticking up from a fallen tree you rode over (and didn't quite clear)?
Dunno. Both of us got the images off facebook 🙂
It's not the op's bike mate. Luckily.
First carbon bike here,a Jeffsy.
Luckily I'm a confirmed mincer and stay away from sticks, stones, knives and swords etc.
Bet that hurt