Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
There is a reason why all steel bikes back in the day were warranted for life, while CF bikes today are warranted for 3 to 5 years.
Checking just 2 of the biggest names, both Trek and Specialized have lifetime warranties on their frames, regardless of material. This is really easy to verify. Please stop making things up.
You can go to any bike shop and walk up to any CF bike on display and take your finger and thumb and squeeze the middle of the top tube and you will feel it give slightly, not reassuring!
Or, I can go to my garage, and squeeze to top tubes of 5 different CF bikes. Zero give on any of them. Please provide specific makes and models of bikes where you personally experienced what you describe.