My first post into this thread and this is about my ride home on Tuesday night. I was about 2 miles from home, riding my year-old Kona Rove DL and started hearing an aweful clunking noise. It worsened when I stood on the pedals. My first thought was a bottom bracket issue or a loose crank. I stopped to check and everything related to the cranks seemed fine, so I continued to the house. I did notice that there was now a wobble to my bike. I couldn't quite figure out where it was coming from. Once at home, I put the bike on the rack and started going over it. Eventually, I found that the drive-side chain stay was broken, right where it joins with the seat stay (just in front of the rear axle). Yikes!

I purchased this bike in October 2017, so it is barely a year old. Luckily, I did register it at Kona.com, so the frame has a lifetime warranty. My LBS, where I bought it has already ordered my replacement frame and I'll drop it off on Saturday morning. In searching the web, I've not found any indication that this is an on-going issue with their bikes, so this really is the purpose of the warranty--to cover defects in one of their products.

In the meantime, I drug my old commuter bike (1986 Austro-Daimler Mixte) out of the garage and immediately wondered how I ever put so many thousands of miles on it. The geometry and fit just felt weird. It took about a day and a half to readjust to it. She feels good now and I'm happy to go old-school until my current ride is back in action.