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[ianrauk]

Out of curiosity etc, I've been doing a few searches for similar issues, and found this, another chap whose CGR Ti cracked around the internal routing holes. Not heard of that particular issue with any other titanium frame brand- including Kinesis, who of course have at least a few reported failures of their own, including on here- and they all offer internal routing as an option if not as standard. A weak point in the Ribble design, perhaps…

Did not Michael Adu's Enigma suffer from the same problem? Thankfully they replaced it.

 

[StuAff]

Did not Michael Adu's Enigma suffer from the same problem? Thankfully they replaced it.

Oh yes, that one too...

 

[wonderloaf]

Out of curiosity etc, I've been doing a few searches for similar issues, and found this, another chap whose CGR Ti cracked around the internal routing holes. Not heard of that particular issue with any other titanium frame brand- including Kinesis, who of course have at least a few reported failures of their own, including on here- and they all offer internal routing as an option if not as standard. A weak point in the Ribble design, perhaps…

Sounds very similar to the break on my first frame and think he sums up how I feel quite nicely, overall a feeling of sadness as I've really enjoyed riding my CGR and would happily carry on for as long as I can, but also a feeling of frustration that this fault is happening in the first place.

From what I've seen I think there is definitely and underlying design problem here as all the cracks seem to eminating from the same place, probably a sharp corner in the welded in cable surround. I'd be tempted to hack my frame apart just to see if this the case!

There's also another chap on youtube who bought a secondhand CGR Ti which cracked in a similar manner, seems Ribble replaced the frame no quibbles even though he didn't have the original receipt or any paperwork ... very generous, will be interesting to see what they say about my predicament!