Candice's LJ

I have to replace my Trek. Not tomorrow or next week but today. Looking at it this morning (this morning as in after I was on the road and I look down at the front derailleur to see why it didn't want to shift gears), I notice a very big crack in the frame, on the seat tube, at the bottom bracket, that actually got quite a bit bigger between the time I discovered it and the time I got to work. Yay. This crack wasn't there the last time I had the bike serviced, about 3 weeks ago, and I didn't see it a couple of weekends ago when I was cleaning it off and checking the gears. But, it's there now and if it keeps getting bigger at this rate, it will completely seperate the post from the bracket very, very soon.

The bike is in it's sixth year and I was planning to replace it after this year. It has outlasted the bike it replaced by a year, through that previous bike did survive 2 car accidents and never had any frame damage or cracking.

I would be more pissed about this, but it does mean I get to go shopping.