damaged steel frame

[eddy]

I have an old Eddy Merckx MX Leader Columbus steel framed bike and and it looks like someone dropped something on the top tube which now has a small dent in it.

 

The dent is amost unnoticable unless you know it is there - about the sise and shape of a finger nail - shallow and about 7-10 mm across.

 

Firstly, is it dangerous, I suspect not ?

 

Second, who would be best to repair it ? I suspect one would have to remove and replace the tube.

 

Any advice from the gurus would be welcome.

 

thx

E

[brussel]

sure it will be fine. I think you have two options:

leave it or fix it by filling with body filler, sand smooth and repaint, I'd not do anything more than that and you'll never know it was there.

[eddy]

sure it will be fine. fix it by filling with body filler, sand smooth and repaint,

 

 

That is what i planned to do. See if Cycleart can do an EVEN BETTER job this time

 

Any danger in not replacing the tube ?

[brussel]

I cant see that it would be. Steel is real those bikes are really strong. A top tube would fail in a crumple as it is under compressive stress. The dent would have to be pretty deep and pretty large to really make any serious affect on the strength.

[NISI]

Leave it as it is ,very strong and safe frame had one ,written off -head on with a car .Was to expensive to repair-(back to Belguim for a tube replacement).

Best frame i had.

[eddy]

Leave it as it is

 

 

Is this safe ? I suspect it is, but would not want to be wrong ..........

 

 

 

Best frame i had.

 

 

Must be honest, I think I agree with you. It is certainly very different from my S-works tarmac, but I am not sure that in 16 years time someone will cycle up to me and say "nice bike" if I am on it.

 

The Merckx is special.....