Expensive bike broken in 40 miles

[ichitan]

A lot of modern bikes break too quickly, and too often. Here is one example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1nUz4TxAU4

[ReapThaWhirlwind]

Sad thing about the validity of this claim is that there's no verifying the actual source of malfunction.

We can't necessarily blame the bike company, when it could have been a botched assembly, or it could have been a tampering with the assembly later.

[ichitan]

Not disagreeing with you. But it is common for parts to break a lot on modern bikes. Bikes are not made like they were decades ago.

[ReapThaWhirlwind]

This is an entirely baseless claim.

Fabricated events or evidence can easily distort the apparent truth.

However, legendarily, poor assembly has been a known cause of malfunctions like this.

[meamoantonio]

(08-14-2023, 12:51 AM)ichitan Wrote:  A lot of modern bikes break too quickly, and too often. Here is one example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1nUz4TxAU4

We should totally have a Hambini thread here, maybe we can find members who are also engineers and chime in to the discussion so we can all learn.

Although for what its worth, I sell bikes for a living these past few years and I notice that the brand names have similar feel and construction with the no brand or micro brand Chinese ones, its kinda like everything comes from one mold now with a few exceptions in the top end racing spec space

[ichitan]

There is more than on person on the internet saying, carbon fiber bikes are not made as precisely as metal bikes, and problems with bottom bracket do occur.

This kind of thing on the internet, might get the attention of bike manufacturers, and they may put more attention into making frames more precise.

Someone may also come up with a different system for installing the bottom bracket.