Frame, toast or saveable!?

[WR 1.0]

Surely insurance does not pay out for wear-and-tear/manufacturing-faults?

 

100% Just about all, if not all, the insurance policies, exclude wear and tear. If your bike is specified (hope it is, else definately no claim), you are usually insured for "loss or damage to" the item described/ specified in your schedule.

 

If you tell them that you went through a pothole, heard a crack, and when you got home you noticed the crack, they will probably pay you out.

Good luck and let us know what the outcome was (no pun intended)

[kosmonooit]

A good welder will create a nice smooth weld that has a nice transition from tube to weld to tube. Having a "bump" causes the stress concentration. No amount of heat treatment wil help such.

 

That's why you will find all the welds on an Al Cannondale frame nicely finished with a smooth radius - besides looking good, reduces above problem (?)

[Wannabe]

Was thinking along Bikemonster way, except to put a thin tube/shim type thing in the seat tube, and then insert a thinner seatpost.

[Christie]

Toast. Agree with Darkwing - you rode through a pot-hole and the frame broke- put in a claim. Its not a R50k carbon fearherwight. For them to have a metallurgical investigation done would cost just as much as a replacement.

[Wannabe]

Thanks Guys, will contact "The Invisible Guy" this morning. Will keep you up to date.

[Eugene Oppelt]

Thanks Guys, will contact "The Invisible Guy" this morning. Will keep you up to date.

Hope you get all the benefit of their service, Wannabe.

 

:thumbup: DUIME!

[Guest Big H]

Was thinking along Bikemonster way, except to put a thin tube/shim type thing in the seat tube, and then insert a thinner seatpost.

 

A shim is short ..... about 75 to 100 mm long. The problem is in the clamping. The clamp is on the extended seatstay. If that snaps all the way through there will be no way to retain the seatpost.