Huh, I wonder what happened! Reddit jumbles the comments based on upvotes, so it's pretty tough to find information. Do you know how he broke the downtube? It seems weird to me (not a frame maker, designer, nor engineer) that it broke in the middle rather than near one end.
On Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at 10:21:27 AM UTC-7 Paul Clifton wrote: > This trip gallery was posted to the bikepacking forum on Reddit: > https://www.reddit.com/r/bikepacking/comments/vpan76/plenty_of_good_times_a_broken_frame_rowdy/ > > I don't know the riders or anything, but the gallery shows what I think > are 3 Susie/Gus bikes and one other bike I don't recognize. There's an > orange Susie hauling about a gallon of water, a full front basket, and a > massive saddle bag. It's frame cracked. > > I'm usually one to scoff at load limits, but I guess at some point, > they're to be taken seriously. I'm glad these guys were able to get the > frame fixed and finish their trip. It looks like a really good time! > > But still, I thought y'all would be interested to see what it takes to > break a Susie. As a chronic over packer and heavy person, I'm even more > glad I picked the Gus! > > Paul in AR > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c178b96a-2f0b-4aac-8b4e-3dc24f4f4c11n%40googlegroups.com.
