Footrest Failure

[patrick_777]

On my way home from work this morning (03:00), I thought my shift lever was sticking to the top of my boot. It shifted okay and there weren't any other drive problems, so I rode it on home and decided to take a look. Apparently, one of the bolts attaching the front footrest to the frame vibrated out and the other one was on its way.

After getting out later and looking at it, and the remaining bolt, I decided to head to Lowe's and try to find a replacement, which was pretty easy, except it was Imperial instead of Metric. No big deal, the threads were still the same, right?

I got home and began screwing in the bolt to the frame-hole, which seemingly worked just fine for about 3/4 of the way down. Then it started hitting some resistance. In a thankfully rare moment of absolute stupidity and stubbornness, I twisted a little too hard and sheared the bolt head off at the frame. I realize that I should have probably gone ahead and ordered the proper (read: tempered) bolts from BikeBandit instead of going for an alternative, but as mentioned before, I'm lazy and apparently impatient as well.

So, now what?

My first inclination is to drill out the hole and retap it, but being tapped into the frame is a variable I'm not certain about.

My second thought is to have someone come out and simply weld the peg brackets onto the frame permanently.

Here are the pics I took after the fact. Click through for more detail.







Any suggestions here?