Broken seat tube

Maherto

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Feb 22, 2020
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11
Dublin
Hello folks have any of you people had your decoy frame fail? My seat tube today snapped. I was chasing a creak the last few rides. I though it was the usual creaking pivot so cleaned them but it did go away. Guess it was the crack spreading making the noise. Bike was never crashed badly. Such a strange place for it to fail you think it would fail near the seat clamp before where it snapped.

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Sophie777

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Jul 3, 2018
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107
Canada
Hello folks have any of you people had your decoy frame fail? My seat tube today snapped. I was chasing a creak the last few rides. I though it was the usual creaking pivot so cleaned them but it did go away. Guess it was the crack spreading making the noise. Bike was never crashed badly. Such a strange place for it to fail you think it would fail near the seat clamp before where it snapped.

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Probably obvious to everyone else; but is that a carbon frame?
 

leftside

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Mar 26, 2020
489
321
Vancouver
Oh man - so sorry to see that. I've had 3 YT bikes, and only once have I managed to crack any part of the carbon - and that was the seat stay on a Capra.
 

Maherto

Member
Feb 22, 2020
56
11
Dublin
Well got the bike back yesterday. All good new frame of course so . 10 week turn around. YT where ok to deal with and quick enough to respond when I asked for update. Happy enough with outcome. Wrapped the bike last night my god I am terrible at it.
 

leftside

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Mar 26, 2020
489
321
Vancouver
Wrapped the bike last night my god I am terrible at it.
Yeah me too! When I got the Decoy, I took the parts out the box and took them to a place locally as they have a setup with RideWrap.ca. The bike was wrapped for me. They do it all the time, was perfect, and didn't cost too much.
 

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