As we last left the replacement frame issue, it was going to
cost me $260 to get a free warranty replacement of a $200 frame. Grumble, grumble.
After talking with bikesdirect.com several times, they were
super helpful and went along with my out-of-the-box thinking. See if you follow my thinking … to allow the
warranty replacement, they needed to physically see the crack in the bottom
bracket, on the bike, in their shop in Texas.
I suggested that, to save on shipping, I would cut the frame with a hack
saw along the two chain stays, seat tube and down tube. This would leave me with just the bottom
bracket and a few inches of the tubes for viewing and confirmation of the crack. It would also reduce the shipping costs of the
old frame from $130 to less than $10.
After a discussion with his people, they agreed and I was onto the task
of chopping up the bike.
I was disappointed to learn, when cutting aluminum with a
Dremel, that no sparks flew. I had gotten
my son all excited to see the fireworks.
He still got a kick out of grinding away at the bike with a power
too. But the rooster tail of sparks
would have been an added bonus. We boxed
up the bottom bracket and forked over the $8 and change for shipping.
Stay tuned.
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