MSYT
Retro Guru
Morning all.
Thought I’d start this thread to get some input. I picked this frame up a couple of years ago from a member here. I thought I’d found a ‘Team’ a while before so when this ‘Pro’ came up I grabbed it.
Really nice Ritchey tubed frame. Awesome. It was a little beat up with a tonne of stone chips to the chainstays but it didn’t look too bad tbh!
Fast forward a couple of years and I’ve collected all the bits for a build. A complete XTR group, a spotless XTR seatpost, the original SRP fork, Ritchey WCS bars and pedals - it’s looking good. I decided to have the frame blasted and Cerakoted and grabbed some decals from Gil. I realise the decals aren’t the fluro original now though.
Anyway - last night I go to take a pic of the serial number and realise there is a hole in the chainstay. Poking that hole then made it bigger. There’s also a small pin hole in the other chainstay too. It’s something I never noticed until now.
Looking back at old video I can see what could be a hole but it blends in to the stone chips so well.
Considering this is going to be some lightweight tubing and the frame has clearly had water sitting in the chainstays for it to rust inside out… the frame is toast right? I’d wanted to build this to ride and possibly race it at the Cannock Classics but now - I’m wondering how much the rust has weakened it.
Thought I’d start this thread to get some input. I picked this frame up a couple of years ago from a member here. I thought I’d found a ‘Team’ a while before so when this ‘Pro’ came up I grabbed it.
Really nice Ritchey tubed frame. Awesome. It was a little beat up with a tonne of stone chips to the chainstays but it didn’t look too bad tbh!
Fast forward a couple of years and I’ve collected all the bits for a build. A complete XTR group, a spotless XTR seatpost, the original SRP fork, Ritchey WCS bars and pedals - it’s looking good. I decided to have the frame blasted and Cerakoted and grabbed some decals from Gil. I realise the decals aren’t the fluro original now though.
Anyway - last night I go to take a pic of the serial number and realise there is a hole in the chainstay. Poking that hole then made it bigger. There’s also a small pin hole in the other chainstay too. It’s something I never noticed until now.
Looking back at old video I can see what could be a hole but it blends in to the stone chips so well.
Considering this is going to be some lightweight tubing and the frame has clearly had water sitting in the chainstays for it to rust inside out… the frame is toast right? I’d wanted to build this to ride and possibly race it at the Cannock Classics but now - I’m wondering how much the rust has weakened it.
That definitely blew open the holes and made them more apparent after fixing all the stone chips.
