POLL : Broken Trek Frames

Please respond to this poll if you are a Trek owner. There is a poster in this forum who declares that every single one of his friends (100%) have had a Trek frame fail. Have you ever broken a Trek frame?

Depends on your definition of "broken". I had a part come unglued after 12 years. If you count that as "broken" I'll vote yes.

But broken to me means "cracked" i.e. the bike is unrideable and the frame is toast. But it's your poll, so you decide.

btw, I have more then one Trek frame, so I could actually vote both choices above.

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You should have other options for the poll so that those of us who have never owned a Trek could see the results without having to skew the results.

Just click "View Poll Results" right below the poll.

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Now I'm expected to actually look at the display????

Thanks!

I responded no on account of my 23-yr old steel TREK made the old-fashioned way in Wisconsin, which is probably not representative of the current breed of aluminum and carbon bikes that they make.

Aluminum no, but the higher end carbon bikes are still made in Wisconsin. In fact, up until 2006, all Trek carbon bikes were made in Wisconsin.

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I responed yes on account of my 20 yr old steel Trek. It has bottom bracket flex, so the gears shift automatically when I push very hard on the pedals or pedal over bumps. I still ride it, but look forward to buying a custom Bob Jackson with lugs all over.

Frame no, but the Bontrager wheels are ****. Less then 9 months and bent two sets of rims. Second set were a warrenty replacement

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Actually this wasn't my Trek but I was involved in this crash. My Trek 5200 survived.

http://users.zoominternet.net/~polcyn/crash_madone3.jpg

http://users.zoominternet.net/~polcyn/crash_madone2.jpg

http://users.zoominternet.net/~polcyn/crash_madone1.jpg

I remember you posting about that over on bikeforums.

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yes one member of our club did - but only after an all too intimate encounter with a scooter , tailgated by a prat doing 80 kph in a 40 zone .

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Believe he was talking about two MTB racer buddies. Obviously, hard MTB riding can break frames. Don't see how his rant has anything to do with road bikes. Believe he uses this story to argue his opinion that AL bikes of any kind are no good, while Ti bikes are unbreakable.

I could tell your about a Cat 1 here who's broken several Ti bikes, including a couple of Merlins, but what would that really prove? (The second part of the story is that over the years, he's broken more than a dozen frames: steel, AL, CF, and Ti.)

I crashed my 1500. broke my hip, but the frame held out fine

Sep 2003 I bought a new Trek 8000. I ride five or six days a week. No problems with the frame to date.