Spotted this dent in one of the seatstays on my aluminium frame. Bike is from 2011 so it's done a fair amount of time.
It looks like it's where I usually lock it up (see 4th pic) so I wonder if someone's tried to nick it at some point
by sojtucker
Spotted this dent in one of the seatstays on my aluminium frame. Bike is from 2011 so it's done a fair amount of time.
It looks like it's where I usually lock it up (see 4th pic) so I wonder if someone's tried to nick it at some point
by sojtucker
2 Comments
it’s a bad area to have a dent. i would keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn’t get worse. I’ve had a dent that looked much worse than that, on a similar alu bike, and the bike gave away to fatigue not long after i limped home riding it with a broken wrist.. this one looks nowhere near as bad, but I would exercise caution.
Depends how risk averse you are. I crashed a mountain bike and had the guy behind me run over the rear triangle (steel) bending it badly. I bent it straight and rode it for years after with no problems. If it was in a more critical area around the head tube I would not have kept using it. Hard to tell from a picture but that doesn’t look like it would fail catastrophically.