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Frame snap query.

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harris:
holy crapola thats bad ass  , matee he was lucky .

animal:
Looks like that frame was not annealed properly to me, stress fracture, due to flex of tubes, always snap where stress is in tubes.

TwoBobRob:
For the record - I'm told that the new SE stuff is absolute crap.....  It's SE in name only unfortunately. I was warned off a floval flyer by several people.

I fancy that's good advice you've been given. Get rid and sort him a cromo frame  :)

T34418L3-1:
oh man thats harsh! hope he's ok like!

sounds like he got his hands off the bars in time to brace himself a little though which is a bonus at least,

i'll be straight up, i've seen loads of alloy frames go at this point, i've torn the rear ends of three but luckily never had a heatube let go,

alloy frames are great for racing as theyre stiff and light,which is great if youre smooth and dont case much, the downside is alloy tends to be more brittle and fatigue quicker, which if youre learning you tend to case and crash more,isnt good.

the alloy 90's gt and robinson race bikes suffered many problems with the headtube arrangement , 3 re-calls if i remember correctly!

its worrying as i've recently bought my son an alloy framed bike, he is only tiny though but as soon as his wheels start leaving the ground he's straight on a steel frame!

tell the shop/distributor about youre sons injuries aswell, they should offer him some kind of bonus be it parts or whatever,

and tell him he's earned hie "red wings"!!

glad he's not injured too bad, best of luck :daumenhoch:

lazychubs:
shit not good mate hope he ok
and looks like the welds aint taken to me aswell

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