Is this seat stay damage or is this normal?

[tweedi]

Picked up a bike from ebay and just arrived home I saw something strange under the seat stay:

https://imgur.com/a/xUtmeKN

Hard to tell if this is damage or normal as it's near the weld? But the other side does not have this.

Thanks!

 

[brocklanders023]

Maybe just a dodgy weld from the factory? Colour looks original and if so it's survived this far!

 

[novocaine]

Looks like a Friday job to me.

 

[Mod-Master]

Looks like something was clamped too hard in that area, reflectors perhaps?

 

[tweedi]

Looks like a Friday job to me.

what do you mean novocaine?

 

[novocaine]

what do you mean novocaine?

Done on a Friday to get it done before the weekend, a rush job, no effort or fucks given.

It's a weld that's been quickly cleaned up but not well.

 

[tweedi]

Does it mean that the bike is fare to ride, and safe to put a kid on child seat resting on seat stays?

 

[novocaine]

It ain't broken yet.

It's got another one on the others idea, it isn't likely to fail catastrophically, it will fail slowly of at all.

 

[brocklanders023]

It'll be fine IMO.

 

[Tootyred]

Friday job. Bridge too short...filled with weld snot. Quality "bugger it" job. But if its not fallen apart yet...it probably never will.