Comments on: Ritchey Broken-Away Ti/Carbon

By: bishopdante

bishopdante — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:48:56 +0000

oh man, that is a *raw* problem.

Stuff that breaks is stuff that breaks. That definitely broke.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:30:46 +0000

I’d be interested to see the new system. I built a road bike for a customer using the old system and can’t say that I was super impressed.

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:32:44 +0000

That’s an interesting point and had I thought of that I would have inspected the inside of the tube before sending the frame in.

One other theory I had is that perhaps the weld failed partially due to the coupler on the downtube. Maybe having that relatively small coupler allows the frame to flex and twist at the BB shell, more than a standard frame would flex, and over time this contributed to the weld failing. I haven’t given that theory much thought, and it could be entirely bogus, but I will say that the new frame that Ritchey sent me does have a more robust connection system. Rather than having two tubes that but up against each other, like the original frame, the new one has one tube that inserts into the other tube. The new system definitely inspires more confidence.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:59:26 +0000

It would have been interesting to see inside the seat tube to look for evidence of contamination. The weld around that entire area has been aggressively sanded as is evident on the blended beads on the chain stay socket. Sometimes companies do this to cover up poor welding practices. You can’t do it to the inside of the tube and poor purging would be obvious.

By: John Murphy

John Murphy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:53:46 +0000

Pshaw – I did this to a Seven.

http://sub20olh.blogspot.com/2008/06/very-sad-day.html

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:01:15 +0000

Makes me glad I got the steel one . (which I just today took on a dirt road I hadn’t known existed — great bike)