And now for something completely different...

[Shad]

Well it is cars and bikes after all

http://images.shad.tv/stvg/?p=/Bikes/17-08-03/

Some pics from Sunday's riding, but here are the best:


Perfect balance, until he fell off


Me on a *cough* warm up jump


This is great, but it leads to this...


Bye bye £1200 frame


Near vertical drop off


Looks great but it was a complete fluke!


Nuff said


Got air?

All good fun

[DaBeeeenster]

Sweet.

What part of the frame was it that failed? I cant make it out in the pic...I'd be pretty angry if I'd paid that much for frame only for it to fail like that...

[TiG]

No Warranty?. and not to be stingy but weld it back together again?.

Pictures are great if a little dark, but the air on some of those jumps looks amazing.

TiG

[Shad]

The pic of the crack doesn't show it all, it's very long and goes right through 2 welds and a large area of tubing. It's where 2 parts of the swing arm come together just above where it pivots with the rest of the frame, so could probably get away with just a new swing arm. Another jump though and it would probably have failed.

As for warrenty... he's probably gonna send it back to Marin but it's over 12 months old anyway. Plus, it's a cross country frame, not designed to take repetitive landings and jumps, so they might just point and laugh.

Not a lot you can do about light in the middle of a forest, the flash makes it too bright

[Butuz]

Oooo looks like you got some nice places round by you Shadman.

Certainly nice enough to put me Club Roost Stinger to good use!

Butuz

[Russ]

what bike u got shad a GT?

[Punky]

thats what happens when you buy marins isn't it under warranty? i know they are pretty damn tight when it comes to claiming on the warrantys though. where are the trails you were riding?

[[GSV]Trig]

Frames are usually warrantied for more than just 12 months tho aint they?

[Butuz]

Lifetime usually (*ahem* lifetime of normal use that is..... *cough*)

Butuz

[Zak33]

Nice shots for a dark-ish wood.

Bet they are bomb holes from WW2 Nasty failed chassis there..horrible mate.

Sorry for ya,,,good luck in getting a warranty repair

[Shad]

It's not my cracked frame tho

Mine's the blue '97 GT Timberline, with extras

They probably are holes from WW2 though, the one with the near vertical drop off is pretty huge, hard to imagine what else would've have created it short of a small meteor (sp?). It's all in Tidmarsh which is just outside Pangbourne which is about half way between Newbury and Reading. There's some fantastic down hill stuff there too.

[Tumble]

Originally posted by Shad
The pic of the crack doesn't show it all, it's very long and goes right through 2 welds and a large area of tubing. It's where 2 parts of the swing arm come together just above where it pivots with the rest of the frame, so could probably get away with just a new swing arm. Another jump though and it would probably have failed.

As for warrenty... he's probably gonna send it back to Marin but it's over 12 months old anyway. Plus, it's a cross country frame, not designed to take repetitive landings and jumps, so they might just point and laugh.

Not a lot you can do about light in the middle of a forest, the flash makes it too bright

Umm, first thing - Marin frames are Life-time warrantied...... BUt, you won't get it. Why? I noticed in the picture there that there are triple-clamp forks fitted on that frame. It was, in all likelyhood NOT supplied like that, and THAT will invalidate the warranty. Sorry pal

[Shad]

Tumble, as I said mate it's not my bike so I don't know all the details; I guesstimated the 12 months thing cos it's the norm for most things. As far as I'm aware though the forks are standard.

[[GSV]Trig]

Thats bad, its even gone thru the weld n that bit should b stronger than the frame

[Punky]

i wouldnt mind a mission to those trails, the ones i ride aint too good really

[Shad]

Come and join us on a Sunday arvo mate, M4 junction 12, dead easy to get to