At 4:46 PM -0400 8/30/02, GPVB1@cs.com wrote:
>Thanks for your detailed, thoughtful post. I agree with everything that you
>agree with me on! ;-)
>
>Thanks Dale for giving us a place to engage in "spirited discussion" about
>something we are so passionate about....
Is this where everybody hugs? (((((((((HUG)))))))))
I agree with Tom that many parts have been on the market long enough
to check the durability issues. Right now the industry is really
paranoid about crank failures because of all the problems in the 90's
with CNCed breakage issues. I can't think of any company that
believes, or believed, that their parts would be used for longer
than a couple of years. Lifetime warranties are easy for a company
when they know parts will be used for a couple years then sold or
relegated to duty on a rain bike. From what I remember and what
people talk about on the list nobody kept their bikes for very long
even in the classic era. Anybody on the list still riding the same
bike just as hard as 20 years ago? This why I try to abuse my parts
so I can get 20 years of riding in in 6-7 years. I've actually been
trying to break a Campagnolo crank for 4 years now with no luck. I
pulled a crank out of the garbage of a shop and it had a few mm
cracks on either side of the arm at the spider. I filed out the
cracks and have been abusing the crank ever since. I believe all
parts can break and have a finite life no matter who makes them, you
just have to ride them hard enough.
Ciao,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA
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