I don't think anyone anywhere is disputing the fact that the welds have failed and broken, I'm certainly not. The question is and always will be why. Just poor welding and work practice ? could be, but remember these frames were constructed in more than one factory by different people using different equipment, I would say that's fairly unlikely.
There's also the fact that in the overall scheme of things a relatively small amount of bike frames have actually broken. ok even one is one too many, but what about all the others out there. I gather thousands were produced during the time of the bad batches so are thousands of Tern bikes all falling to pieces worldwide ?
On a side note there's been lots of talk over the months on legal action against Tern for what happened, did anyone successfully achieve compensation through the courts with an admission of guilt by Tern, just wondering.....