FYI: Specialized frames break. In half.

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03-29-08 | 06:57 AM

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03-29-08 | 08:34 AM

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03-29-08 | 10:23 AM

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

03-29-08 | 02:48 PM

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03-29-08 | 05:03 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Zinn-X

. 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.

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Originally Posted by markjenn

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

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03-29-08 | 05:09 PM

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03-29-08 | 05:20 PM

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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.