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troie

03-29-08 06:57 AM

I hack off-shore bank accounts.

BFG	03-29-08 08:34 AM

I took my Karpiel Apocalypse for an XC ride today, ended up with the dang top tube sheared right off, trying to jam up my butt! My Karpiel broke, Doritos Mexicana chips rock hard.

junkyard

03-29-08 10:23 AM

Wait, so the Fisher salesman told you that Specialized was no good? Consider your source.

boyvirgil

03-29-08 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crghill (Post 6419531)

You could have been killed... or even worse!

lol

Raiyn

03-29-08 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zinn-X (Post 6419494)

. He must have read my mind and said "dude, don't buy a Specialized. Those bikes are unreliable." He then recounted a story of how he once had a Specialized bike and the frame broke in half.

I've had my oldest Specialized for 8 years now, and it's still going strong. Granted, I've replaced everything but the frame and seatpost, but the frame's still just fine and probably will be for the next 20 - 30 years. :love: Cromoly Steel :love:

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Originally Posted by markjenn (Post 6422700)

If there is anything worse that an unsubstantiated story about bike frame failure, it is an unsubstantiated story about bike frame failure told by a salesman wanting you to buy something else.

- Mark

So sayeth the Post of Mark 6422700 :beer:

CdCf	03-29-08 05:09 PM

Forget tubing - let's build bikes out of solid steel rods!!! Yay! Imagine the guads we'll grow! :D

2manybikes

03-29-08 05:20 PM

A few years ago my friend bought a Roadmaster mountain bike. It was a high chainstay style with the BB hanging lower than the chain stays. Like a triangle below the stays.

I told him one day that the bike was so lousy that the frame could actually break. A month later the frame broke at the BB shell when he was on a fast downhill. It was a very long walk out of the woods.

He's OK, he did not crash, but now he always asks my opininon about bike stuff before buying something. :lol:

Trekbikedude

03-29-08 08:08 PM

so many trolls in this thread.

2manybikes

03-30-08 04:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trekbikedude (Post 6428604)

so many trolls in this thread.

WE need warmer weather. ;)

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