What to do with old steel frames?

[Wayne Lim]

I'm doing a spring cleaning and have three steel frames that are not usable.  

Frame one is a Masi Volumetrica, from the 1980's or thereabouts.  This frame cracked near the drive side rear dropout.  If I remember correctly, I think some framebuilder may have taken the powdercoat off to see if it was fixable, but I never had any fix attempted.

Frame two is a custom frame from Don Ferris of Anvil Bikeworks.  He made this for me some time around 1990.  It sustained crash damage in the toptube that eventually caused it to crack.

Frame three is a custom frame from Carl Strong of Strong Frames.  This was built in approximately 2004.  I rode this hard but didn't clean it well, and corrosion has eaten away at the metal around the headtube, bottom bracket, and rear dropouts.

Do steel frames just go in the recycling center?  Does anyone local to Redmond, Washington want these frames?  They're all around 57 cm, and the two custom frames have about a 60 cm top tube.

Thanks.

[tho...@kokopedli.com]

what is the status of the accompanying forks?

hte 3rd frame:   with the rear styays bent outwards, maybe the rear section could make a fine shop-stool, and the downtube and top-tube could make "cheater" bars for extending the leverage of some tool...

The first listed might be worth a simple repair job...

The second frame seems fit for a project I like, use the rear half of it and the front half of a different frame and creating a franken-ritchey breakaway suitcase bike.    I might be interested in it for that, but I'm not through Seattle area until at least this coming september   ...

noMadic   Thomas

[satanas]

If the 3V is in decent shape apart from the dropout and especially if you have the matching fork it would IMHO be criminal to throw it out. I'm sure someone would think it worthwhile to have it repaired and refinished. (I would, but I'm on a different continent.)

Without seeing the others I can't say anything sensible about them, although the rear triangles could be repurposed as stools...

Later,

Stephen

[Duane Draper]

I'm just across the lake from you in Seattle and I'd be happy to repair them, and donate to Bikeworks.

Contact me directly.

Duane

drapercycles at outlook.com