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Johvial schreef:
eindgebruiker schreef:Does anyone know whether there is an equivalent forum to this one in Belgium, France or Germany, an if so what the URL is?
http://www.vakantiefietser.be/forum
http://www.radforum.de/forum.php

Thanks. I will join those forums and try to post the same subject.

On a serious note: what did you expect from a reasonably cheap brand? Aluminium simply is more prone to breaking (suddenly), same goes for carbon which some even label unreliable.

Glad to hear you're OK after the incident.

Thanks for your concern.
BUT you seem to think it is OK for a dangerous ...

m-gineering.nl Can I post this incident on that web site, or how does it work? It's a private company website. You can send the picture to the man - Marten - by mail, and he might use it.

Do you have super detailed pictures of the crack?

Leon

Thanks for that. I do have detailed photos, so will ...

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Dutch/Belgian model from 2008 (same cable routing, different frame, they improved the lower tube, and the cables seem to enter more sideways):

Thanks for that information. The Explorer model, perhaps improved a bit, is still displayed on the Belgian Giant website. See http://www.giant ...

Wow you are a lucky man (think of it that way). I am not sure this model was ever sold in the Netherlands, but other than that, internal cable routing does indeed create weak spots in a frame. What was Giant's comment?
See http://www.m-gineering.nl/techdexg.htm under the heading 'reading matter ...

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Apologies for writing in English, but I don’t speak Dutch, and this incident occurred in England. As this model is still in use in the Netherlands, I would like to warn you over there.
My Giant Explorer’s frame had a sudden ...

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