Originally Posted by
Ron Damon
A famously failure prone Al-alloy Tern broke on your 105kg frame, and the replacement is another Al-alloy Tern for your 105kg frame? Are you familiar with the Darwin Awards?
The issue with the previous old broken frame is not due to the hinge itself but to the welds.
Its more a manufacturing problem than a design problem that was solved on more recent Tern frames.
BTW., even if it would help to avoid broken frames like this one, the Deltec cable is meant to reduce the constraints on the hinge and increase the hinge life, not to solve bad welding/bad manufacturing.
The safest is to find out the manufacturing date of the broken frame and of the replacement frame and see if there is a Tern recall for any of those two frames.