One less steel Cervelo on the road

[retrofit]

Our son had a freak accident while on a ride with the local dev. team this afternoon. The small group was on their way to ride the hills in Pebble Beach when he inexplicably went down on his left side and his friend riding behind him came down on top of him.

Good news -- our son is all right save for patches of road rash on his left hip and forearm. His friend will likely have some bruising and soreness.

Bad news -- our son's Cervelo SuperProdigy frame is toast.

Good news -- I planned to give him my 54 cm SuperProdigy since, at 5' 9", he was about out of his 52 cm SP.

Bad news -- the sale of the 52 cm was to subsidize purchase of another frameset for me.

Good news -- the boy is all right.


Tomorrow I'll start transferring his components over to the 54 cm frameset; he'll be good to go for his next ride.

Nevertheless, he's bummed about his bike. Team CSC was his team from age 3 when he started watching pro cycling with me. He's been riding a road bike since age 7 (a Felt F24) and was absolutely jazzed when I found a SuperProdigy in CSC livery 4 years ago (he's 13 1/2 now).

At this point, he wants to preserve some part of the frame, in some way, as a keepsake. Any ideas for doing so?

In any case, some pics of the frame:

lower downtube
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5346/17471725701_51a9fe1e7f_b.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7733/17472029305_18eb83de98_b.jpg

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5467/17284277598_aba7a66422_b.jpg

top of rear triangle
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8711/16851768913_dd052bb300.jpghttps://farm8.staticflickr.com/7729/16849501054_28eab638ee.jpg

right (yes, the right) shift lever
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7719/17470694502_1d26396276.jpg

[beeatnik]

Retrofit, I like your son's style.

Glad he didn't seriously injure himself. How did the frame sustain so much damage?

[unterhausen]

sorry to see that, it's a lot of damage for a wreck, so I'm glad he came out ok.

I never really convinced my kids to ride, which is a bit of a failing

[RedRider]

Keep the headtube as a keepsake. Cut the toptube and downtube about 5 or more cm behind the headtube. Can be mounted on a wall or used as a handle or vase...

[fogrider]

glad to hear everyone is ok! put some old parts on it and put it on the trainer!

[bobswire]

Hey Retrofit since you'll be looking for a ride maybe this one is still available?

http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=163826&highlight=cervelo

BTW I had a Prodigy too and loved it.

[alexstar]

Sorry to hear about the bike but at least your son is okay. If you have the space, I recommend keeping the whole frameset and just hanging it on the wall. I think cutting the frame up would lose some context. Further down the road, he might appreciate having the whole frame to look at, too.

[Peter P.]

At this point, he wants to preserve some part of the frame, in some way, as a keepsake. Any ideas for doing so?


I know people who have made wind chimes from the frame tubes.

[SlowPokePete]

Glad your son's ok...hang the frame in the bike room, that's what I would do.

SPP

[branflakes]

That's definitely a freak result to a freak accident. Glad to hear your son is okay.

[Black Dog]

Come on now. That will buff right out! Glad everyone is ok.

http://huer.liquidweb.com/~bentley2/photoblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/planes-trains-autmobiles-movie-still-475x357-pr-01_476x357.jpg

[likebikes]

cut out the dropouts and use as keychains

make a stool out of the frame

[fiataccompli]

Sorry to hear but sounds like priorities are in order. I like the trainer idea. I had a CF Giant with a big hole in the top tube for which I considered the same (with a splint). Having said that, is having a frame builder repair/replace the frame an option?


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[vav]

Good thing he is fine. I am of course biased but SuperProdigys (https://www.flickr.com/photos/63560619@N06/9766806814/in/album-72157635550218991/lightbox/) are fantastic. I'd look for a replacement though they are getting hard to come by. I still regret selling mine.

[bobswire]

Sorry to hear but sounds like priorities are in order. I like the trainer idea. I had a CF Giant with a big hole in the top tube for which I considered the same (with a splint). Having said that, is having a frame builder repair/replace the frame an option?


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Why not, call these guys,after all they may have been the original builders> http://www.hottubes.com/Home.html

[retrofit]

Thanks everyone for all the well wishes and ideas for the frame. I'm leaning toward hanging up the frame for now.

As for repair, I'm not optimistic. In addition to the down tube damage, the frame is torqued at seatstay-seat tube junction. The damage is just freaky.

@beeatnik, what exactly happened is still a mystery. Guesses include a momentary loss of concentration, or hitting something in the road, then an overcorrection that turned his wheel completely to the left, this in order for the right shifter to sustain damage, and down he went. His friend who was riding behind and to his right, landed on the bike.

Both boys are doing fine -- our son's friend is a bit sore, but well enough to do his house chores (I'm not kidding); our son is taking it easy today (no athletics) and will take his mom to the local theater for a special showing of "The Sound of Music" for Mother's Day.

[tiretrax]

Glad he's ok. I ride there on vacation - roads can get slick with little moisture falling.

It's probably not worthwhile to get the frame fixed, but I'd look into it. It's a great bike. Expensive windchimes and key fobs are nice idea.

[mktng]

Glad your son is okay!. Would it be worth fixing the bike? +1 on whoever said.... I like you sons style.

[skijoring]

Not a super prodigy, size 54. I can check it out if you wish.

http://sellwoodcycle.com/collections/used-bikes/products/54cm-cervelo-prodigy

[mktng]

Speaking on prodigy. My friend just had his prodigy ht replaced to 1-1/8th by Marinoni. What a machine!

[stefus_prime]

It's easy to replace things, hard to replace people. With that said, what a shame. I really love quality steel bikes, at least you can harvest the parts.

[retrofit]

An update to wrap-up this thread…

Our son’s road rash is healing well — he took off a week off from karate, but continued playing AAU basketball. So yes, he’s doing well.

After tearing down his frame I thought I'd see what the crash did to the alignment (not that I had any doubt). In the pic the NDS measures 2” from BB shell to the string; DS measures 1” from BB shell to the string.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7691/17217530294_0246f2988a_c.jpg

I’ve also finished building up the 54 cm SP with the components from his crashed frame; I may still need to adjust the fit a bit, but otherwise it is ready to ride.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5339/17840573381_94cef71811_b.jpg