E: Let’s all talk about what bikes should or shoudn’t cost

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    23·
    3 days ago

    That’s the thing, a back frame bent even just by 3 degrees becomes unsalvageable, and if you’re riding a bike such that you’re not testing the frame to some degree then I’d argue that you’re not riding at all :-P

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 day ago

        going off the road, popping wheelies, carrying heavy parts, cornering at extreme angles with a heavy load, that kind of thing

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 days ago

        I have two bent steel frames from beautiful French bikes that I had to sadly say bye bye to

    • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Bent in which way?

      Rear triangle on a steel bike can be straightened out if you are careful.

      Front triangle shouldn’t have issues unless it’s bad from the start. (that requires a table and skill)

      Only bike I have straightened was a steel huffy (not worth working on)

      It had a head tube that was twisted so wasn’t fixable… Rear was easy enough to align though.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 days ago

        Front triangle I just swap out the stem, but back triangle there’s nothing I can do to fix that without weakening the frame even more