Mike
Maximum Pace
- Sep 24, 2007
- 1,066
- 9
Had the pleasure of doing a Tour de Christoph with Simon today. It was a great ride and I'm so glad we persevered with the weather being the way it was this morning, as it turned out to be a beautiful day out. For some reason, I suppose it being a three day weekend or the weather reports (wrong as usual) there wasn't that much traffic around, especially coming home along R413 and we were really able to enjoy the scenery. Man that area is stunning.
Anyway, to get to the title of the post, during today's ride I was discussing (should probably say complaining) Bontrager parts. I've had so much trouble with them on my Trek it's really starting ....... well, you get the picture. The back wheel that came with the bike, Bontrager Select (bottom of the line) has had to be completely re spoked and on another occasion all the bearings replaced and it's only 1 year old! If you've been following my posts lately, probably hard not to as I've been posting so much these days, you'll know I've just bought a pair of HED wheels. So no more wheel problems I hope for a while. But anyway as I was coming home today surprise surprise, my BONTRAGER carbon seat post snapped and somehow I managed not to crash. So yet another BONTRAGER part on my bike failed within 14 months. I know the stuff on my bike is low end, but surely it should last longer than this...just wondering if anyone else has had these kind of problems with this brand?
Anyway, to get to the title of the post, during today's ride I was discussing (should probably say complaining) Bontrager parts. I've had so much trouble with them on my Trek it's really starting ....... well, you get the picture. The back wheel that came with the bike, Bontrager Select (bottom of the line) has had to be completely re spoked and on another occasion all the bearings replaced and it's only 1 year old! If you've been following my posts lately, probably hard not to as I've been posting so much these days, you'll know I've just bought a pair of HED wheels. So no more wheel problems I hope for a while. But anyway as I was coming home today surprise surprise, my BONTRAGER carbon seat post snapped and somehow I managed not to crash. So yet another BONTRAGER part on my bike failed within 14 months. I know the stuff on my bike is low end, but surely it should last longer than this...just wondering if anyone else has had these kind of problems with this brand?