This comes down to what happened a few years ago when i was working at a bike shop that imported Kuota bikes A guy walked in on a saturday and said he will never buy a Trek because the bikes break!!! So we asked him why and he said that he was riding along and he hit a pothole and all of a sudden his front fork dissappeared and he ended up in hospital he then continued to say that just fun would not replace the part because it was not covered in the lifetime warrantee???? so we do the calling to confirm this and they said it would have been covered if they didnt suspect that the bike was not set up correctly and that the headset was actually tightened To make a long sotry short this guy had built the bike himself without the proper tools and he had not tightened the headset properly making the whole situation his fault I am not saying that this problem that people are having with specialized is the persons fault but you also can not say that you will never buy a bike because they all break Simple fact is that you will never get an indestructable bike and there will be bikes that are substandard according to the manufacturer and that is why you get global recalls by companies such as cervelo, trek, specialized and raleigh it doesnt mean that they are bad bikes it just means that they had a dodgy batch!!
