I think it’s a great looking bike… as with their new DH frame – when you get the seatstays aligning with the toptube – just makes it look nice and clean.
I rode the Mega twice on my old Supreme 6 FR, certainly no problems there – and it sounds like they are fully aware of the troubles they had from that PB press release;
Since 2009 Commencal frames have improved their strength and reliability enormously, correcting certain faults from the past. We are able to offer proven reliable frames thanks to the barrage of tests that we use that well beyond the European standards set. We impose on our products area-specific reliability tests for each key part of the frame, followed up by testing each new platform out on the trails, in the most extreme conditions.
Numerous Meta frames are therefore produced to undergo no less then 8 different machine tests with extremely high thresholds and extreme loads. As an example, European legislation imposes a minimum 50,000 cycle resistance at a given load. We impose a resistance minimum of 1 million cycles before any fissure or crack should appear.
I’d have no problem with owning another (and i am heavy, and tough on bikes =)