Here's one broken frame from Pic of the Day...
Guy Labébie, 1949
http://www.wooljersey.com/
Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio, USA
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [CR]Exploding bikes!
> Here's one broken frame from Pic of the Day...
>
> Guy Labébie, 1949
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>
> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio, USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr. Paul Williams" <castell5@sympatico.ca>
> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:06 PM
> Subject: [CR]Exploding bikes!
>
>
>> Having just watched the end of today's T de F stage, I was particularly
>> struck by the seeming fragility of CF frames after the spectacular crash
>> of the Gerolsteiner(?) rider and the pictures of his bike flying through
>> the air and breaking into two halves upon landing. It got me thinking
>> about past Tours (within the CR time frame) and whether any steel frames
>> reacted the same way when crashed? I know forks broke, but did lugged
>> steel framesets break in half or fly apart at the seams like this? Was
>> it more a question of bent but not broken? I don't remember such things
>> over the past 30 years of watching!