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Need help, just returned from 2 week break in the Yorkshire Moors, Dales and Northumberland National Park.  Weather was very varied and as such in a hasty decamp during a thunderstorm we managed to fracture the central extending hoop of our 96 Pennine Sterling by closing the frame down in the wrong sequence.  Would appreciate any ideas on how I go about getting a replacement section, has anyone had to replace any section of an FC frame?

Paul

no and hope we don't.

have you tried pennine themselves as they do spare parts but not sure on the centre hoop!!

http://www.thepenninegroup.co.uk/products/spares-catalogue/lighting-and-reflectors-products.html

Hi Paul

Did something similar luckily had an old piece of pipe same diameter as hoop. i just cut out broken piece and riveted new pipe in place. Works fine and good as new if not better.

Hope this helps

Wells21,

How did you resolve this in the end?

We discovered this weekend that our central hoop was about to snap. I managed to find a wide jubilee clip and rescue some of the weekend away, but now we need a permanent repair/replacement.

IS there a recommended way to fold down? We were not even aware, and maybe this how ours became damaged too! Ours is a 93 Sterling. We did manage to get the damaged section out easily enough.

Thanks,

hi guy's

not so good about the broken frames, pennine should be able to help but i find them a bit awkward to deal with . first thing i'd do is see if they have a replacement and want to sell it! if not, i'd remove it and get pipe or threaded rod to fit inside the broken frame and weld in place, so the crack is welded to pipe and together and the geometery will stay the same, grind it down even and paint , wa la good as new,

the sequence for unfolding is back end first then hitch and to fold it's hitch first then back.

hope all goes well

ali

Ali,

Thanks for your reply. I have been waiting for pennine to call me back for two days already. Hmm, maybe a repair is the better option then. I will start looking into that too.

Thanks also for the hints on the folding/unfolding sequence. We think we had been doing it the wrong way, so it is likely our fault. It is almost a relief !  At least we now have a reason.

Thanks again,