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Old 04-02-12, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
Burley no longer makes tandems. The Company was restructured from a cooperative to a private company in 2006. I don't recall if there was a lifetime warranty on their bikes. If there was it would be an interesting question whether the warranty liability came over to the new company. Couldn't hurt to give them a call.
When we bought our Burley from Mel's stock at Tandems East he said that the lifetime warranty on Burley frames was handled by some kind of escrow-like setup where that was funded by the privatization. If you don't get anywhere with the new Burley corp you might give Mel a call as a last resort.
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