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Ccl471 |
05/14/07 |
You know how some carbon fiber seat stays are a "clip-on type?" I read that somewhere. I'm not sure that "clip-on" is the right term.
I'm wondering: are "clip-on" stays replaceable? I'm wondering because I am interested in buying the 2007 Schwinn Fastback Triple. It has carbon seat stays. I don't know if they are the "clip-on type."
I have had a carbon fiber road bike before, and after I owned it for several years, hundreds of tiny air bubbles formed all over the carbon tubes. I had to send the frame back to the manufacturer for warranty replacement, and received from them an aluminum frame, because the carbon frame had been discontinued.
You see, I would buy the 2006 Fastback Triple (Performance Bicycle's website still has one available in my size), for which all of its frame tubes are aluminum, so that I wouldn't have to worry about replacing carbon seat stays -- I would buy it right now, if it weren't for the fact that my dad won't allow me to. Because I am grossly overweight and as such I cannot ride a road bike right now without it being extremely painful. And my dad says that I am not allowed to buy a road bike until I have lost enough weight to be able to ride a road bike comfortably, and we don't know how long that might take. It'll definitely be long enough so that by that time the 2006 Fastback Triple will no longer be available. Then I am going to be stuck with buying a 2007 model or later.
As far as a road bike is concerned, if the air bubbles form on the carbon fork -- well, it would be easy to replace a carbon fork. If the bubbles form on the carbon stays, and if those stays are not replaceable, then I'll have to have the entire frame replaced. Even though the manufacturer would replace the frame free under warranty, still I would have to go through the trouble and expense of possibly replacing some or all of the parts from the original bike that won't fit on the replacement frame. Parts like the seatpost, the stem, and the bottom bracket.
Because the seatpost would have to be replaced if the new frame has a seat tube of a different diameter than that of the old frame; the old frame could require a one inch diameter stem, whereas the new one might require a one and one-eighth inch diameter stem; and the bottom bracket from the old bike might not be compatible with the new frame.
So getting a frame replaced free by the manufacturer doesn't mean it won't cost me any money to use it and the parts from the old bike to reassemble them into a new bike, you see?
Many thanks,
C.L.
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