Originally Posted by
dphi
It's equally silly that a warranty wouldn't be honored a year after manufacture if the bike had been quickly resold by the original buyer but would be honored 40 years later if the original buyer bought the bike back from the person they sold it to (and still had their original receipt). "Lifetime" warranties are just weird in general and, obviously, mostly just a marketing tactic.
Unless you expect a manufacturer to encourage used sales instead of the new stuff they make, I don't see why anyone would expect the lifetime being that of anyone other than the person that bought it new. That was the important transaction.