Can it be saved or do i scrap ????????

[400bhp]

I don't know - am I right in thinking ( a quick think ) that the part of the frame where it has snapped is a relatively low load bearing point?

If you can get it welded for peanuts, why not use it for a shopping bike?

 

[dan_bo]

Nah that'll fix- take it from me. if you wanted it for best then you could get a new chainstay put in for ~£50. you could blag it for a packet of cigs at the local welders and use it as, like 400BHP sez, a shopper. if you don't want it i'll be interested in what you'd want for the fork.

 

[black'n'yellow]

the chainstay is fine - it's the drop out which has snapped. Unless you had access to a frame jig, 'putting a new chainstay in' is not really an option, not to mention unnecessary, not to mention that finding a replacement chainstay or fabricating a new one would put the cost well above £50.

If this was a vintage Colnago, Rossin, De Rosa, Daccordi, or maybe a Hetchins or something else collectable, it might be different. But it's not - it's a mass-produced Taiwanese MTB frame from the 90s. Seriously, take it to the tip and move on...

 

[dan_bo]

Honestly it'll fix! Inexpensively!

 

[dan_bo]

In fact f*** it skud give it here and i'll fix it! (unless it happens to be a very skinny framed alu frame in which case give it here and i'll get it fixed!)

 

[black'n'yellow]

Honestly it'll fix! Inexpensively!

The only way to fix that 'inexpensively' is to jig it and run a weld around the steel plate dropout and hope it held together the first time you turned the pedals or went over a bump. I would give it two weeks max before it broke again. The frame itself is not worth anything like £50 even if it wasn't broken.

You can buy complete bikes like that for less than £50 in your local small ads...

 

[dan_bo]

it has a very nice back end.....

 

[Browser]

I'm afraid I shuddered when I saw the 360 degree brake collars on the BMX, they are a superb piece of engineering but so many kids have them on their bikes and they're either (a) cheap original components, (b) not maintained at all or (c) a combination of the two which tends to leave them with absolutely no brakes whatever