Chainstay Fell Off ?

[Linus]

Have the 08 Typhoons been cracking a lot too? (Mod version specifically)

It seems so, after I read about 08 tps cracking at the bashplate mount I had to check mine. And yeah, there was a crack...

Edited June 10, 2009 by Linus

[Sponge]

I suspected they were fairly weak, I did see a few pictures of the 08s cracked at the toptube near where it welds onto the seatstays.

By 'cracking at the bash mounts', do you mean at the horizontal chainstay piece between the yokes, or do you mean that silly blotch of weld on the downtube?

[Mat Smith!!]

I suspected they were fairly weak, I did see a few pictures of the 08s cracked at the toptube near where it welds onto the seatstays.

By 'cracking at the bash mounts', do you mean at the horizontal chainstay piece between the yokes, or do you mean that silly blotch of weld on the downtube?

[Sponge]

That's fairly grim. I always suspected that that would be a bit of a weakspot, especially after the first batch of T-Mag 2005 frames just caved in at the downtube bashplate mount (and these had a small gusset no?)

I suppose that means every Deng frame with a bashplate is vulnerable to this weak design. Why did he ditch the gusset? The 2004 Pythons and 2004/2005/2006 Echo Teams all had this gusset too, which spread the impact over a larger area. It worked, heck.. haha.

[Ducko]

haha fab job there son!

looks like the weld has epicly failed,

and too the gimps who are bitching on this topic shut the hell up, christ everytime i come on trials forum i feel like im in a class of 12 year old kids again,get out the house and get a grip of your life's!

[Linus]

I suspected they were fairly weak, I did see a few pictures of the 08s cracked at the toptube near where it welds onto the seatstays.

By 'cracking at the bash mounts', do you mean at the horizontal chainstay piece between the yokes, or do you mean that silly blotch of weld on the downtube?

At the downtube