I have been getting real excited about rebuilding my YoEddy. It had surface rust all over the chain stays and lots of scratches. No dents or anything structural - or so I thought. I stripped the bike down to the frame and dropped it off with a local powder coater. I just got the call today that the seat tube has holes in it! Bummer, I have all the parts all ready to assemble, but no frame now. I sprayed frame saver in the seat tube when new and almost yearly for the first 5 years. It was a heavily used race bike so it has seen plenty of mud and rain...
A local frame builder could replace the tube for couple hundred dollars, but is it worth it? This is my foul weather commuter bike now, not my MTB or even trail bike.
I guess my options are to sell the damaged frame to somebody who can fix it and then sell off all of my components or put more money into a heavily used and possible further rusted bike. If I sell the fat, I would build up a new commuter bike with 700cc wheels, possible a Surly.
Ideas?
Here is my bike before I took all the components off:
http://www.fatcogs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3334
A local frame builder could replace the tube for couple hundred dollars, but is it worth it? This is my foul weather commuter bike now, not my MTB or even trail bike.
I guess my options are to sell the damaged frame to somebody who can fix it and then sell off all of my components or put more money into a heavily used and possible further rusted bike. If I sell the fat, I would build up a new commuter bike with 700cc wheels, possible a Surly.
Ideas?
Here is my bike before I took all the components off:
http://www.fatcogs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3334