Dent in steel seat tube. Intervention needed??

[Woz]

Get another child and put the child seat back on is the proper answer. No one complained before removing it.

 

[thefunkymunki]

Cheers for ally your suggestions guys!! Much appreciated.

I’m lll bob and update on at some point when the bike comes out again!

 

[BerthaPog]

 

[Cloverleaf]

If you want to get the dent out I'd consider speaking to a local good (and I will emphasise that point) PDR guy. I've got a local one here I use from time to time who's excellent and loves all sorts of interesting challenges. A seat clamp on at the top to prevent distortion there and I reckon they'd get that out with very little time or effort.

 

[2manyoranges]

I worried about this happening when I used a child seat on various bikes when the Groms were Small Things. I read of the risk, and deliberately avoided putting the seats on some frames. Well so much for my smart arse comments. Now...the dent. They can play on the mind, but these ones, in this location, are in my view fine. Aesthetic pain I know. but they are fine. I have some steel bikes which I acquired with considerable dents. They are fine. And a Cannondale which had a HUGE kink in one chainstay - I rode it for years just to see what would happen. Nothing. Nothing at all. I'd attribute your dents to 'patina' and just remember your kids being tiny when you look at the frame in 15 years' time.

I dropped a hard heavy thing from a shelf the other day, onto my blue BfEMax. It simply scratched it, but I was ridiculously upset. I got the paint out, touched up and got over it. Although clearly I can still remember it or I wouldn't be writing this...grrrrrr

 

[Ecurie Peril]

Looks ok to me. If you aren't precious about the bike, don't sweat it.

 

[Frankenorange]

Personally; i would not worry about that dent. It is a very shallow and uniform dent , without a crease , and the paint isn't broken. It is a low stress area so just ride it like you stole it!