No disagreement

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:53:12 -0400, Ronsonic wrote:

On 21 Oct 2004 15:49:59 -0700, (Rick Warner) wrote:

Bill Baka wrote in message ...

Kind of like last year when my bottom bracket spit out all of its
bearings. I tried using the bike as a scooter, standing on one pedal
and jumping/pushing with the other but that got old so I called
the wife. Another time a pedal flat snapped off so I could not
even play scooter. You can only carry so much stuff. Maybe a trailer
with a whole spare bike? Things break down when THEY want to,
not when it is convenient for the rider.
Bill Baka

Yep, lots of things can break, but most do so rarely. I split a BB
shell once, locking up the cranks.

Please, how the hell does that happen?

Poor construction? The bike was less than a year old, so likely a
manufacturing defect.

- rick

Blair P. Houghton wrote in message .. .


You ride through wind, rain, and everything else while you're
being an asshole on the Internet?

Geez Blair, you are two out of two this week; twice you have shown
your immaturity by resorting to name calling tactics. I think Mr.
Russell said it best on the other thread; I'll let you re-read that
rather than re-hash it here. Me thinks you need to chill a bit, grow
up a bit, and learn better societal interactive techniques. And
perhaps you should learn to carry a tube and patch kit as well.

- rick

On 2004-10-22, Ronsonic wrote:
On 21 Oct 2004 15:49:59 -0700, (Rick Warner) wrote:

Yep, lots of things can break, but most do so rarely. I split a BB
shell once, locking up the cranks.

Please, how the hell does that happen?

Many inexpensive frames use bulge-formed and welded BB shells. I suppose
it is possible that there was a bad weld on the BB shell allowing the
seam to open, but it's hard to imagine how this would slip through
manufacturing.

More expensive frames use investment cast BB shells that don't have
seams..

--

-John )

John Thompson wrote in message .. .
On 2004-10-22, Ronsonic wrote:
On 21 Oct 2004 15:49:59 -0700, (Rick Warner) wrote:

Yep, lots of things can break, but most do so rarely. I split a BB
shell once, locking up the cranks.

Please, how the hell does that happen?

Many inexpensive frames use bulge-formed and welded BB shells. I suppose
it is possible that there was a bad weld on the BB shell allowing the
seam to open, but it's hard to imagine how this would slip through
manufacturing.

More expensive frames use investment cast BB shells that don't have
seams..

Not an inexpensive frame. A name brand made in the USA aluminum
frame. It was a cast shell, not welded. It split open on the drive
side near the bottom. My major complaint was it took them 12 weeks to
supply the replacement frame.

- rick

On 22 Oct 2004 17:01:18 -0700, (Rick Warner) wrote:

John Thompson wrote in message .. .
On 2004-10-22, Ronsonic wrote:
On 21 Oct 2004 15:49:59 -0700, (Rick Warner) wrote:

Yep, lots of things can break, but most do so rarely. I split a BB
shell once, locking up the cranks.

Please, how the hell does that happen?

Many inexpensive frames use bulge-formed and welded BB shells. I suppose
it is possible that there was a bad weld on the BB shell allowing the
seam to open, but it's hard to imagine how this would slip through
manufacturing.

More expensive frames use investment cast BB shells that don't have
seams..

Not an inexpensive frame. A name brand made in the USA aluminum
frame. It was a cast shell, not welded. It split open on the drive
side near the bottom. My major complaint was it took them 12 weeks to
supply the replacement frame.

Thanks. That's about the last thing I'd have expected to see break. But then
everything does eventually.

Ron

Rick Warner wrote:
Blair P. Houghton wrote in message
. ..


You ride through wind, rain, and everything else while you're
being an asshole on the Internet?

Geez Blair, you are two out of two this week; twice you have shown
your immaturity by resorting to name calling tactics.

No, you're acting like an asshole, so I'm calling you
an asshole. And you don't have any reason to be an asshole,
least of all the stress of riding into the wind.

--Blair
"Take it like a man."

"Cheto" wrote in message ...
"Blair P. Houghton" wrote in message
...

BTW, I had a flat tire this morning and had to carry my bike home
after only 20 minutes of riding.

Huh? Why didn't you simply repair or replace the tube with the most basic
flat repair tools that ANY cyclist with an iota of common sense ALWAYS
carries. You do carry flat repair tools, don't you?

Yesterday morning I decided to use the opportunity between storms to
go out for a pre-breakfast jaunt into the hills. It was warmer than
last week, when temps dropped to 37 in the morn, but still at about 42
or so I wore the tights and windproof socks. Two miles from home,
trying to avoid drivers high on saturated fats leaving the McCafe I
missed seeing an 8d nail on the road, but it somehow found its way
into the center of my rear tire... and through the tube and into the
inner wall of the rim. Ooops. What to do, what to do? A bit over 2
miles from home, should I walk? Oh right, I have spare tubes and a
patch kit with me. Cool, but the sun is shining so I opt for patching
the existing tube, and trimming the fender that was shredded by the
nail sticking out of my tire. I cut the ride short, but still got
almost 15 miles of hill riding in yesterday ;-)

- rick