Death of a cross rig. Wrinkled my downtube on my sweet purple Mandaric this week. Glorious endo! Fortunately, she is an organ donor and most of the parts will hang on my new Kelly Knobby X (on order-and with luck, arriving before the local series kicks off. Can't decide whether to bury the old frame or mount it in the front room like Trigger.

my condonlences

Death of a cross rig. Wrinkled my downtube on my sweet purple Mandaric this week. Glorious endo! Fortunately, she is an organ donor and most of the parts will hang on my new Kelly Knobby X (on order-and with luck, arriving before the local series kicks off. Can't decide whether to bury the old frame or mount it in the front room like Trigger.

Dearly departed bike frames (and other parts) make great interior design accents. Of course, your spouse, friends and visitors might not share your taste, but they're a bunch of philistines.

I've got a beautiful old 1977 Richard Sachs hanging from my office ceiling (actually not departed at all, but it's not going back out into the elements until I can pull together the cash to send it off to Joe Bell for a long-overdue repaint), along with a fatally dinged Spinergy Rev-X wheel. Both touch off interesting conversations, which no "reach for the stars" business-inspirational poster ever would.

Cheers!

Dearly departed bike frames (and other parts) make great interior design accents. Of course, your spouse, friends and visitors might not share your taste, but they're a bunch of philistines.

I've got a beautiful old 1977 Richard Sachs hanging from my office ceiling (actually not departed at all, but it's not going back out into the elements until I can pull together the cash to send it off to Joe Bell for a long-overdue repaint), along with a fatally dinged Spinergy Rev-X wheel. Both touch off interesting conversations, which no "reach for the stars" business-inspirational poster ever would.

Cheers!

So true. My wife has already given me permission to prop the remains up somewhere in the "bike room." Thanks. Wild thing is, completely wrinkled downtube, but not even a flake in the paint. Bullet proof powder coat.

Death of a cross rig. Wrinkled my downtube on my sweet purple Mandaric this week. Glorious endo! Fortunately, she is an organ donor and most of the parts will hang on my new Kelly Knobby X (on order-and with luck, arriving before the local series kicks off. Can't decide whether to bury the old frame or mount it in the front room like Trigger.

Issat a steel bike? If so, you can probably get it fixed...

Try calling Toby at Hot Tubes (MA) or Cyclart in San Diego, etc.

No sense letting a good bike go to waste for a little thing like a cruched tube!

M

Issat a steel bike? If so, you can probably get it fixed...

Try calling Toby at Hot Tubes (MA) or Cyclart in San Diego, etc.

No sense letting a good bike go to waste for a little thing like a cruched tube!

M

That's a thought. Thanks. My LBS says it's toast, but they could be wrong. Cyclart are the folks that just painted it for me six weeks ago. I'll drop them a line. Wouldn't hurt to have two cross frames sitting around.