tttiltheend wrote:
You make it sound as if such failures are routine and can be expected from any carbon frame. Sure, in a crash they can fail, but just riding around? It's true there have been occasional failures of this nature with frames from big name brands but such failures have resulted in recalls at huge cost. Good luck holding that Chinese vendor accountable or expecting them to issue a recall.
Yes just riding a long name brand products have failed in exactly this manner, at the same time there is no information that the bike pictured above was not subjected to something unusual and caused the eventual failure.
There is no evidence that the no name brands have a higher failure rate that others HAVE claimed here in the past, no proof.
Sorry when someone comes in and says be careful with only the no name stuff I have concern with their lack of sincerity as they completely ignore the very real risks and failures of name brand parts.
I don't defend the Chinese stuff, I call out people who are ignorant.
What good does accountability do you when are dead? sorry but that is a pathetic reason to put the blinders on regarding failures and it only serves to hurt the entire community not help it. If he meant to help he wouldn't have buried it in this thread and would have posted all the information he had.