Buying secondhand anxiety

honeybadger

I've been looking at picking up a discount '09 bike, has 2 or 3 in mind, one of which I've found secondhand, and EX8.

Bit worried about warranty cover though, particularly after seeing this:

http://www.singletracks.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=2972

As they're going for £1475 new I would pick up without a seconds thought, but I'm borderline on sizes and really err on the 19.5 size which I can't find...

How many on here have broken frames?

weeksy59

Why not just buy a bike that isn't prone to snapping instead ?

myopic

Saw another thread about this somewhere else. The break was due to stressloading on the seat stay from the disc brake. I think all of the affected frames were valid for replacemt of the rear triangle and the design fault was fixed on later models - check the Trek website?