[Closed] Advice - What would you do?

RIDE IT YOU WORRYWART!!!!! 😆

Tis an ace bike, get out and ride.... (09 ST4 and 10 seatstays here 🙂 )

ha that's exactly what i keep telling myself (the ride it bit not the worrywart)

Look at how much they go for 2nd hand, then see if you could get something you'd be happier with for the dosh.

yeah Matt 2010 all round here got the brand new frame today

Mal-ec i never see them second hand on ebay, plus it's brand new (obviously no warranty) so i have no idea price wise mate

I don't think they have a history of failures after the new chainstays. Sounds like the last one was unlucky maybe?

Sell it to me for 500? 🙂

Rob2 if you offered me a bit more i would seriously consider it 😉

also the last one was 09 so had the old rounded stays this is the new beefy beefy yum yum stays

just ride it like it was a hire bike flat out

Ygm 😉

I'd stop pretending I'd ever ridden a bike in my life and give up the charade

😉

Ha pook lately that's pretty much true. Brand new beautiful frame sat here waiting.

Rob2 no mail received mate

Ask the seller what sort of riding they did on it & what they weigh.
The seller has sorted you out & has no further obligation/commitment to you, so has no need to lie, if he rides harder than you or is much heavier then keep it,if it is the other way around then sell it & buy something more suitable..

HTH

Cheers.

Yeah it seems like he was a both wheels on the ground sort of guy.

Either way it's a lovely frame if I sell it that's great if not I'll ride it till/if it breaks.

It's a lovely looking thing :-

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So this thread is just an ad, good stuff, I'll offer £200 posted 😆

No it really wasn't meant to be, if any mods can remove that pic then please do.

I genuinely don't know what to do.

Build it & ride it & stop being such a girls blouson.

Not a fan of Orange, but got to say that looks bloody nice in white.
White forks, blue or red Hope hubs & matching bits scattered around...
Mmmm.

Ha a girls blouson awesome!

Yeah I'm thinking that way. If I worried everything might break I'd never buy/ride anything.

Any advice what price to advertise this at? Had an offer on pinkbike but it was a time waster.

If you worry about an Orange frame breaking there wont be many you are happy with. Ride it. Build up confidence until you realise it wont break. Then be happy.

Hi big,

It's not that I worry about orange frames more the one I bought was cracked.

ok, you say the one before was cracked.. the previous owner (seller) must have had it got a warrenty replacement for you, yes?
Well what the issue with them doing it again, if it does happen, drop em bottle of something for the hassle.. wots the issue?

Just ride it ffs!

I bought a Genesis core 40 and bodged a tabletop on it, The niggle that the frame maybe damaged and may fail was in the back of my mind, but the way I see it is that: If the frame breaks then I buy myself a lovely latitude frame and put all the bits from my core (Easton haven bars included) onto it, which would be quite a nice upgrade don't you think...

Maybe the crack in the first one was caused by an accident, nothing to do with the frame being crap or riding style 😉

Yeah I think your all right, time to remove the ad and get it built up.

This is a weird thread!
Buyer recieves frame, notices crack, seller offers refund, buyer ends up with new warranty replacement frame from seller, but still worried so puts it in the classifieds. Very odd. I must be missing something.

In the end we never agreed on a refund, it was offered that I have the replacement.

Nothing confusing I simply can't shake the niggle.

Simple as that. I should have just opted for the refund but didn't. My bad.

Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Top marks to the seller. Hope you enjoy your (brand) new frame. 🙂

Yep deffo top marks to the seller.

Cheers for the advice everyone.

Hi....

How dare you post up a picture of a white st4 frame in my size? I had one built up with white forks, red hope headset, bb, seat qr and rotors and black hubs. Lookd ace and rode even better. I sold the frame for a Cotic soul...wish I had kept the st4 aswell. Climbed superb, accelerated like a scalded dog, went downhill as quick as my old 5!

Excellent frames, id have nother if I could get one for the price I paid for a brand new warranty replacememt of fleabay!

If u want to sell it mate email me on mikedonald@hotmail.com and we can talk... I know I shouldn't but they are sooooooooooo good.

Depends on how much you paid?

I presume you didn't pay the £650 your asking for in the classifieds

so either way your in profit, if i was the seller id of given you a refund, and took my chance selling a new frame on here or ebay

1981 I've mailed you a couple of questions mate

Merchant like I said he didn't want the frame I said that first.

He got his asking price and he was happy

So are you asking more than you bought it for? If so then your only real issue is how much you can make out of it, this thread has read like an ad from the start.
Just put it on ebay & take your money, the seller should of offered a refund & done it their selves, but that is there look out not ours, just stop punting it on the main forum & everyone is a winner.

Cheers.

2unfit all I wanted was advice, I'd happily have this thread removed.

I don't trust a frame til I've broken it at least twice. Otherwise, how can you know when it'll break?

Hmmm, white ST4? Get out and ride it... 🙂
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I'd be amazed if that broke. My mate's got an ST4 (2011) and it is a cracking little bike and very solid feeling. Don't take this the wrong way, but I can't work out your logic re. the breaking thing. Anything can break or malfunction, but it doesn't mean that there is an inherent fault with every other item of it's type out there.

I strongly recommend riding it (but if you die riding it as a result of it folding in two then I won't accept any of the blame!).