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[Closed] Got a Whyte 19 carbon? Well this one cracked here....

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Terrible camera phone pics, sorry.
Sorting out a mates bike and found this beneath the mud.
Crack is all the way around and quite jagged in route, seems to follow the carbon stay plug?
Frame replaced no problem - except for the comment - Oh thats OK, not a real crack - but we will replace anyway???? He stuck to his guns and got the replacement.


 
Posted : 22/12/2009 7:04 pm
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It seems that many bikes are breaking on the welds these days, especially longer travel full suss.

trying to make them too light maybe?


 
Posted : 22/12/2009 7:07 pm
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Funny how the alloy broke and not that flimsy carbon 'devil plastic' ๐Ÿ™‚ .

I was/am quite interested if these frames but I'll be doing a few searches
now to see if this is a common fault.

thanks for the 'heads up'.


 
Posted : 22/12/2009 7:36 pm
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If its a common fault the next model will have it sorted. Their customer service seems quite good and the designs seem to respond to this sort of thing. There was a frame improvement on the 46's for similar reasons.


 
Posted : 22/12/2009 7:39 pm
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Off to wipe away some mud.


 
Posted : 23/12/2009 2:27 pm