took a few pics, not sure if this is just a mark in the paint

🙁

Well anyway, quite sad, end of an era and all that. Had the frame since 1995 I think, it was featured in Cycling Weekly and recently built up as an almost daily used singlespeed for taking my dog out.
But today, the dog lead came in for a secondary usage.
Get me home fix number 267a:

Here in its prime, shortly before I bought it from Rock n Road.

Bye bye Principia 😥

proper LOL at title and pic

Lick of paint, that’ll be fine.

It’ll polish out.

Looks like it’s just in the paint mate. I’m an engineer*. Be reet. 🙂

*This may not be true

Now what’s the best way of getting a mouthful of coffee out of my keyboard?

no
Noun:
A line along which something has split without breaking into separate parts.
Verb:
Break or cause to break without a complete separation of the parts: “the ice had cracked”; “a stone cracked the glass on his car”.

I’m so glad I didn’t make the usual crack jokes.

I’ve got some Araldite.. 💡

Cut the can with stanley knife, wrap around frame, jubilee clip – sorted

couple of big jubilee clips and alloy bars and splint it……….. 😉

i’d take it back 🙂

Gaffer tape’ll fix that 😉

On a serious note I’d fix that with CF and ride it.

CF? Captain Flasheart?

I did ride it about 2 miles home. Felt similar to my 575.

http://www.principiabikes.co.uk/sites/english/road_evolution.html

I would mail customer services at the website above department asking for a replacement frame under wwarranty. It’s obviously a design fault and I expect it’s already happened to several people on STW 😈

My mate’s broke in the same place, but that was in 1993 and they redesigned them after that. Gussets an that.
Still stupid paper thin downtube. I’ll contact them and let you know if I get any joy