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Rusted, wrecked, home repair, more rust Paramount
various broken frame ends
Raleigh Sports , rust, wear, crash, rust
Not a cassette. A chinese fake cassette!
Side impact, alignment
ditto, road bike
Fork wreck, align
Dura Ace seat post
How to make a DeRosa lighter
Classic crank break
You can trust forged steel. Usually
Road debris hates you
Use a wheel, any wheel
Factory errors in new fork
Another fork failure
older tech aluminum casting fail
Stuck, extracted seat posts
Cable routing, head on crash
Sure, just toss out those little parts!
Aero section seat post
Obviate proprietary BB system
Aluminum frame gear tab
ditto, commuter frame
Cracked head tube
ditto, classic cracked head tube
Seat stays, various
Stay chafed through by car rack
Must See! Software error!
Must See! Software error!
Discs are not zero maintenance
Discs hubs today
Some Cranks from Jay Beattie
Sugino Maxy metric crank crack
Steel pinned crank spindle
Steel pinned crank spindle
Square crank spindle
Record Front BZ mounting bolt
Fill and re cut threads
Crushed seat lug ears
Fork Ripped Apart By Maniac
Parked bike hit by car
Worn chains, worn sprocket
Spoke salt water corrosion
Unusual chain failure
CarbonFork Failure
Head On Crash
Front Hub Bearing (or lack thereof)
Why not 'sealed' bearings?
Rim Worn Through by V-Brake
Classic Squirrel Death
Aluminum frame can't corrode, right?
Ice is bigger than Water
I don't need a headset press, I have a hammer
Some Failed Cranks
Shimano Nexus & road salt
Shimano Nexus & road salt
Shimano Nexus & rust
Nexus 'permanent' lubrication
Broken axle; tire wore through chainstay
Bianchi Fell From CTA Bus
The Bianchi above was destroyed in a middle lane of Lake Shore Drive, Chicago; repeatedly run over. Wheels were unrecoverable.
New bike test ride. Wheel reflector ran amok, penetrated frame!
Pivo bar with off-center liner
Pivo bar with off-center liner
Nitto bar, cloth tape, years of moisture
Corrosion under tape #2
Corrosion under tape #3
3ttt bar, crashes, moisture
This Teledyne, above, which was sold here new in 1976, spent a year hanging on the veranda in Pago Pago Samoa. Here's what the salt air did to a Zeus 2000 aluminum cup in contact with the titanium head tube. Note the conical shape of the previously cylindrical cup and matching head tube expansion
Metal oxides are bigger than metals!
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