I bought it 2nd hand. I just reached out to the original owner to see if he has any of the original reciept/sales info/etc.
Taking it into the only local Felt dealer in town this weekend. We will see what happens
all I see is dirt
I know. haha I got muddy the day before. You can see the CF chipped or whatever right in the middle of the stay. I am going to wash it off before I bring it for evaluation and pictures.
My local guy would charge <$200 to fix that. Actual retired aerospace compositesbro too. Just fix it!
Iām hoping that Felt will do a frame swap. If not then fixing it is my plan!
Well thereās no way that a new frame from Felt will be less expensive than a repair.
looks like a real easy spot to repair
I just meant that I hope they will just swap it out under warranty costing me little or no monies. If that doesnāt happen then Iāll fix it.
Felt doesnāt work that way.
no one does
Outdoor Research does.
No bike company does.
Yet another reason why bikes are dumb.
Are we still looking for more of those?
Damn. Sorry man. Is that one of the unicrown guys or one of the originals?
Why are so many of those elephants having this problem?
It was a second-generation bi-plane crown, which supposedly was fixed. Lots of theories, but apparently Glenās helper at the time bent the fork blades way too long, and then bent them back, or at least thatās the story I was just told. Itās canāt possible be an accident that itās cracked exactly above the brake mount, so I assume some sort of stress riser related to that.
But itās not like you see lots of stel dick forks in general broken there, just lots of NFEs. Has anyone had a unicrown break?
I know tomaso broke two forks, not sure if they were both bi-plane or what.
nobodyās broken a unicrown one, not even the fatigue testing machine
the actual root cause of the failures is that this blade is a piece of shit that was designed wrong: http://www.cycle-frames.com/bicycle-frame-tubing/NOVA-CRMO-ROAD-OVAL-0.9-0.6-NOV_CXFB_OVL_0.9.html
itās not possible to build a safe disc fork with it, and the wide 28.6 biplane crown canāt use normal fork blades