Originally Posted by
jargo432
Has anyone here ever had an alum/alloy frame break or crack?
I broke two Devinci aluminum touring frames somewhere around 2001. They both broke in the same place on the downtube, about 2" from the headtube.
The second one was a warranty replacement of the first and they gave me a third also as a warranty replacement which I sold before ever building it up and bought a chro-mo cyclocross frame.
That being said I think it was an issue with that frame in particular (and likely the abuse I put it through), not aluminum in general. Most of the other bikes I've owned since have been aluminum and I've never had an issue with them.