Bit of a strange one this...
Just had an aluminium frame (BeOne Storm) fail at the bottom bracket / chain stay junction. Thankfully, Chain Reaction have agreed to replace the frame under warranty, though they've told me I need to cut through the top tube and send them a photo before they send the replacement.
How?
Think I have a Wilko value junior hacksaw somewhere, but that's about it. Suggestions please!
just belt it with a hammer? - they just want to see it put beyond sale/use
A junior hacksaw will do it
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anything pretty much would do including a junior hacksaw - you wont believe how easy it is
Personally I would thrash it against a large heavy object whilst calling it names - effective and more satisfying
Photoshop 💡
Its aluminium....... a hardpoint wood saw will go through it easy enough 😀
An axe, allthough you could do it with a bread knife if you tried hard enough...
A saw will take less than 10 seconds, easy.
If I was pinching locked bikes to sell for their parts I'd be attacking the frame for speed. Could make the getaway ride interesting though!
+1 for Photoshop. Free spare frame 🙂
+1 for Photoshop. Free spare [u]useless broken[/u] frame
FTFY
home science experiment - hit a flat spot in TT & DT with hammer or whatever then bend it back and forth and see frame fatigue in action!
+1 for axe go ****ing mental send a pic of you with axe and thoroughly mangled frame
+1 for Photoshop. Free spare frame
Well not really because:
Just had an aluminium frame (BeOne Storm) fail at the bottom bracket / chain stay junction.
Make a good job of it and turn the rear end into a wheel trueing jig 😀
Use a flower pot full of thermite above the top tube. Video said destruction and send video to CRC.
I'd use my sword, just because that'd be frickin awesome.
what were you given teeth for?
Don't forget to put the bits in the recycling when you've done with it.
Aluminum is easily recycled.
😉
Can't believe no-one has suggested putting a sticker on it...!
Put a tiny bit of Gallium onto it :
[i]Just had an aluminium frame (BeOne Storm) fail at the bottom bracket / chain stay junction[/i]
Why would crc not be happy with a pic of the area thats broken? To easy to repair?
surprised they've told you to do this, its not exactly very health and safety with todays compensation culture! LOL
I guess you don't realise how thin the tube walls are - or do you think it's solid? 😳
If I was pinching locked bikes to sell for their parts I'd be attacking the frame for speed.
Why you should always have a lock through a wheel as well, it takes a lot longer to cut through than a frame.
Whatever you do, make sure you video yourself as you cut them top tube and make sure you laugh manically and end with a proper psycho look straight down the camera... that should entertain CRC and their daft requirement 😀
maxtorque - Member
Use a flower pot full of thermite above the top tube. Video said destruction and send video to CRC.
Gets my vote 😀
cruzcampo - Member
surprised they've told you to do this, its not exactly very health and safety with todays compensation culture! LOL
You've clearly never met a Niner owner.
"Bit of a strange one this..."
CRC made me do this.
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It didn't take much effort.
Those that worry about the fragility of carbon frames need to give this a go once in a while. I think most wouldbe ssurprised at just how thin aluminum bike tubes are.
Massiah, Is that an actual man [u]Cave!?[/u]
My vote would be TT on a block with an big axe. I'd send the photo with the axe still in the block and TT clearly cleaved in two 😀
do you live in a cave messiah?
I thought you were only in there a couple of days over Easter one year?
do you live in a cave messiah?
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I use my cave for all sorts of things 
awww, look they're both having a little nap on the newspaper, how sweet.
Your junior Hacksaw will be adequate, but I like do some of the suggestions above especially an Axe...
If given the promise of a replacement by CRC I'd happily be sawing through most of the tubes just to see how it was constructed...
Go Nuts and then post up some pictures...
surprise them and cut the tube lengthways.
Messiah those birds look rather clean rim or shoty? always rimmy for me as I hate biting into shot that i've missed lol.
OP go nuts and try the axe the saw and the brittle method and film and post results of all three with a little ditty about which one was the most fun and the one that was most surprising 😆
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To quote snatch wars when Darth "Brick Top" Vader cuts down Ob Wan "they go through bone like butter"
Lightsaber it!!!!!!!!!!!!
This lady has the most Star Wars-y name imaginable, but I'm afraid she has some bad news about lightsabers.
Actually, i like the cut it length ways idea! Do the whole bike down the middle Damien Hirst stylee, then hang it on your garage wall as a trophy 😉
Throw it under a lorry, take a photo and use it for the CRC replacement and the insurance replacement.
I may just have fallen in love with Lia Han... 😯
no one suggested blow torch? you lot have lost your sense of excess!
no_eyed_deer - luckily she's included her email address at the end of that for you to try and chat her up 🙂
[stalker] I know! [/stalker]
... nope - I'm just too scared! 😳
If the OP wants, I can Photoshop a crack in the TT.
...I will also mend the bottom bracket via the same method 8)
Whats' she gonna do that you'd be scared of??
Oh wait - LASER expert, fair enough...
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Sorry am I being dull (very high probability), but why do they want you to cut through it?
To provide entertainment for STW.
[i]why do they want you to cut through it? [/i]
to prove it is beyond repair/use. Saves them havign to pay return postage for something they'll just scrap.