Originally Posted by Eds0123

I have seen other rider's broken forks at weld joints on trails. I have seen broken frames on my travels on other trails. These all looked like sub $100 wall-mart bikes, quiet different than a expensive professionally made bike made for a champion riding a grueling racing event at TdF. Just not a good PR image for the manufacturer or the technology. Again I don't know, I am a newbie here, this just does not give me a good warm fuzzy feeling that I can trust the frame and be rest assured that expensive CF frame won't fail me.