About a mile from home, something felt weird. Looked down, and...
That Doesn't look right. I can fix this....
A friday night in with a good beer and some metal
Couple hours later, mocked up and ready to weld.
Finally, after about 5 hours in my dads garage on a friday night...a buildable frame.
Lesson learned: haste doesn't make waste, but it makes poor product. When the seat-stays snapped, the chain-stays bent under my weight as I was riding. When I was mocking it up, I didn't really think about that, and just blindly went ahead with my idea. After building it up, I quickly realized this mattered alot, as I got pedal strike on any hard turn. I rode it a while like this, but had to be aware all the time.
In its final form, before I trashed it, I put a lowrider fork I had made from an old bike, and it became a track-lowrider-frankenbike mashup that I really liked. Seen below.
