I was actually wondering what the status of my frames were, since I dropped them off at the Frame Man six weeks ago. I called the shop this morning and those frames just happened to be on today's schedule to get jigged up and measured. I was just hoping that one of the frames wouldn't be too out of whack, so I could start building on it right away.
I just got a call back from Pat, one of the main technicians at the Frame Man. After the evaluations, as it turns out, BOTH frames were "well within serviceable specs", meaning that they were in great shape! They checked all the measurements and the angles and everything was fine. As a matter of fact, he told me that there wasn't even a whole lot that they could do to either of the frames. I was totally surprised, since one of the frames took a pretty good pounding, when I rear-ended a car coming down Highway 17, through the Santa Cruz Mountains on my way to San Jose. I guess the forks took all the energy- thank goodness!
Both frames have their steering stops knocked around- one of them is missing entirely. Pat offered to weld on a new stop at a nominal fee, which I am considering, since checking the frames came at no cost to me.
