Title.
The bike is clean, except for this small dent on the seat stays.
Original owner said a wheel failure happened and the derailleur got stuck in it, hitting that area in the process somehow.
Thought on it? Is this frame good for parts or it has many more miles in it and is worth restoring.
Thanks a lot for your inputs.
by AnotherCynical
17 Comments
Looks kind of bad, I personally wouldn’t ride it, id be paranoid of that collapsing under stress like a pothole or curb drop.
Seatstays are structurally not needed in modern bike design. You can ride it until it fails and it likely would t be a big deal. It will fail though. If you can get your money back you should.
I would not recommend you ride it. It’s not a roadworthy bike. Strip it for parts and fix up a different frame.
Are you asking *after* you bought it or before?
It might the angle, but it looks like the seatstay has already started to bend slightly in the last photo.
If that’s the case, the wheel will be slightly rotated and offset. And then you have the uncertainty of safety. Would not trust.
I personally would scrap the frame.
Convert it into a exercise bike or low cruiser it high speeddays are over
Looks like that hit slightly bent the seatstay, too. That’s not a frame I would buy (or sell, for that matter) – you just don’t know what’s going to happen, even though a catastrophic failure is not on the horizon with this spot imo.
That said, I’ve seen so many ads talking about “great condition/works perfectly/clean EXCEPT for a [add catastrophic damage reducing value to zero of your choice]” that I am pretty much out of patience with those types of sellers…
Looks bent as well. I would not trust it.
That’s not a small dent
It’s not a “small” dent. That pipe no longer has structural integrity – it WILL fail in that place after some time. Don’t ride it, this frame is toast.
scrap metal
Its Hella cooked.
Thats a big nope for me. Part & scrap.
The problem with seat stays is that they’re a compressive member of the bike frame. If this member was in tension, like a chain stay, I’d have less concerns.
Having a bend or a dent in a compressive member increases your likelihood of frame buckling if a large enough shock load acts on it (think pothole or curb).
The truth is, you don’t really need to have the seat stays. As long as it’s not thrown the wheel out of alignment, you should be able to ride it.
Yep, that’s beyond toast
No. Don’t ride it.