Originally Posted by
Inertianinja
and about the power of annecdote....
I have no personal experience with BMC Bikes, other than looking at them and thinking how hot they are.
Yet, I've seen two instances with the frame snapping...
- one Team Machine that broke at the "m", so it looked like "Tear Machine"
- one Track Machine (?) on which the frame snapped @ the headtube when crashed.
...that freaked me out.
I've also seen this happen to an aluminum framed Orbea. When you crash with the front wheel first it puts a lot of load that is distributed across a relatively small weld area.