09-04-2023, 07:00 AM
Two weeks ago I bought a new Trek Checkpoint ALR5 bicycle. Bike rides pretty well. It has aluminium frame. I bought it primaraly for bike packing trips as it has ton of mounting points. After riding it for 2 weeks and hitting some easy gravel roads I found two relatively small dents on bicycle's frame. I don't know when I got them. Maybe they are caused by flying rocks from the wheels. Maybe this dent was already there when I bought it. In total I rode around 100 km on gravel trails and the riding wasn't to extreme. Those dents made me a little bit paranoid about the bike's frame strenght, and made me wonder about how the frame will look like after one year. Are these dents normal or they show that bicycle has fragile frame? Can such dents cause problems? I claimed for a warranty. Just asking for your opinions if claim will be denied.