My Intense Tracer ... before I built it up. See my profile for the current specs.

I like the gun metal grey. Show us some pics when it's built up! What are the plans??

I'll get some updated pics of the bike ... as soon as my Cannon Rebel camera order comes in ... :)

Same as my Frame. I love the gun metal grey.

Same as my Frame. I love the gun metal grey.

Mine, too. Iron Glimmer, as I recall. I'll post my Tracer pics soon. I'm biased, of course, but I think it looks pretty good. That grey is sweet - understated and durable.

http://fresh.no-ip.org/galleries/tracerbuildhtml/index.htm

stooopid me ... i seemed to have stripped the bottom-bracket threading and can't get it re-threaded without ... uh ... welding. So this frame is toast. If anyone wants it... it's yours ... i'll probably post a classifieds listing about it soon. Thinking $200 ... my loss, your gain.

- MikeG

Mike,
Bummer about the BB. I know how it feels to lose a Tracer. You can probably still trade in that frame and get a 5.5 or Spyder at cost. It will save you a lot more than $200.

Are you sure you can't re-do the threads without having to reweld ? Some times there's enough material to work things out.

But if it's really not possible, that really sucks for you.

I hope things turn out fine in the end :rolleyes:

JB weld might be able to save it. Er at least make it so the BB wont ever come out too ;)
Or try the trade in thing or get it re-welded by Intense.

I thought for sure that you could re-tap the threads on a BB. You should exhaust all possibilities and sources until you find out for sure.

Otherwise, it's the perfect story to tell a wife/girlfriend to justify a new frame;)

"Honey, I cracked the weld at the downspout/Flux Capacitor junction and have to buy a new frame:D

stooopid me ... i seemed to have stripped the bottom-bracket threading and can't get it re-threaded without ... uh ... welding. So this frame is toast. If anyone wants it... it's yours ... i'll probably post a classifieds listing about it soon. Thinking $200 ... my loss, your gain.

- MikeG


damn that's BRUTAL!!! i did that to a set of Grafton Joystix pedal threads like 10 years ago and i'm still feeling the awful burn!!! there's gotta be a way to fix that...

stooopid me ... i seemed to have stripped the bottom-bracket threading and can't get it re-threaded without ... uh ... welding. So this frame is toast. If anyone wants it... it's yours ... i'll probably post a classifieds listing about it soon. Thinking $200 ... my loss, your gain.

- MikeG

That's a sad, sad story. Between the EBB on the Jericho and now this, I'd say let the LBS do the BB work for a while, huh?:madman:

Is there no way to fix it? Still got the frame?