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flowrider1

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Washed out yesterday coming off a jump. Picked up my bike and noticed the crown on the left side snapped! Any one else have this issue?
 
RUFUS

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How about a little more info on how this happened, where, speed, height of jump, how hard you slammed, etc.

Gonna need to see a pic as well.

If you search here there is one topic of this happening to one of the first batches. RS will hook you right up.
 
boogenman

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Bad casting on the first batch, SRAM will take care of you.

Let the e-tard war begin! I am going with 100+ posts on this.
 
bullcrew

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post #5 come on guys we have 95 more :D

I still dont give a crap personally RS has been great to deal with as alot of other CS departments out there and this is a hiccup.

Good to know none the less.
 
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Orfen

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Sandwich said:
upper or lower? i have an early batch team, would like to know where to keep an eye out.
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look at the arch on your boxxer.

the old castings have a knotch/groove beind it where you wrap the ziptie to fasten the brake line. The new castings doesn't any groove beind the crown (just the guide on the front)

my guess that's where the OP's fork broke.
 
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Viv92

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Bit of a hijack, are as many people having issues with '10s twisting due to running direct mount stems? I'm tossing up whether to go a standard stem on my new fork.
 
Udi

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I doubt it has much if anything to do with the DM stem, it was just a weak point in the casting that has seemingly been updated.
 
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The end of the crash looked very similiar to the video of the girl who broke her boxxer and trek frame in one crash. Bars inward (toward the direction of the fall) on the last bounce, but nowhere near as harsh. He was going fast though.
Also, it was the arch, not the crown- as long as this is not some wierd coincidence with what happened to my friend on sunday..
 
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Sandwich

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Orfen said:
look at the arch on your boxxer.

the old castings have a knotch/groove beind it where you wrap the ziptie to fasten the brake line. The new castings doesn't any groove beind the crown (just the guide on the front)

my guess that's where the OP's fork broke.
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ahh...I'll check for that when i get home and keep an eye on it. Hope the OP returns to enlighten us as to where his actually broke. Crown is a lot different then arch.
 
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By OP, it seems like you guys mean flowrider, but what does OP mean?
I'm almost 100% positive that this is my buddy posting. IF it is, this happened sunday, and it was for sure the ARCH, not the crown.
Looked almost identical to the PB link..
 
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Viv92

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Udi said:
I doubt it has much if anything to do with the DM stem, it was just a weak point in the casting that has seemingly been updated.
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Not related to this particular instance, are DM stems still causing problems with the Boxxer lowers (because almost everyone I know who twisted a set of the old ones was running a direct mount)?
 
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wood booger

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the same happened to my boxxer team 2010. It came with the first batch to switzerland and I know 2 other guys who had exactly the same. I'll go with bad casting. Sram took care of us on the same day respectively and haven't seen any of the newer ones break. **** happens
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Sh*t happens?

Are you kidding me!!??

The fact that bad castings made it to the general public is pretty poor on SRAM's behalf. Yes, it can happen (bad castings) in the developement process, but it should never make it to a consumer level product. You bet SRAM hooked you up on the same day, if someone hurt themselves because of this kind of failure SRAM could face a huge lawsuit.

Thumbs down to SRAM for sh*tty QC. Gotta love companies who let the public do their testing for them.
 
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wood booger said:
Sh*t happens?

Are you kidding me!!??

The fact that bad castings made it to the general public is pretty poor on SRAM's behalf. Yes, it can happen (bad castings) in the developement process, but it should never make it to a consumer level product. You bet SRAM hooked you up on the same day, if someone hurt themselves because of this kind of failure SRAM could face a huge lawsuit.

Thumbs down to SRAM for sh*tty QC. Gotta love companies who let the public do their testing for them.
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wait for it... wait for it.... ok go!
 
Sandwich

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Orfen said:
look at the arch on your boxxer.

the old castings have a knotch/groove beind it where you wrap the ziptie to fasten the brake line. The new castings doesn't any groove beind the crown (just the guide on the front)

my guess that's where the OP's fork broke.
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double snap, mine has the nubs. I'll watch it.

I can see how it would snap there, there's an indent for where the zip tie should go. I think SRAM just lowered the weight as much as possible, weakest point is where it breaks.
 
Acadian

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Sandwich said:
double snap, mine has the nubs. I'll watch it.

I can see how it would snap there, there's an indent for where the zip tie should go. I think SRAM just lowered the weight as much as possible, weakest point is where it breaks.
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SRAM has been using that type of arch for a few years now. All my Lyriks have that notch on the back and I've never had any problems (knock on wood). My guess is that at first they simply went with the same casting design as the Lyrik - but it looks/sounds like a few failed at that area and decided to do a running change to the lowers.
 
HAB

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Acadian said:
SRAM has been using that type of arch for a few years now. All my Lyriks have that notch on the back and I've never had any problems (knock on wood). My guess is that at first they simply went with the same casting design as the Lyrik - but it looks/sounds like a few failed at that area and decided to do a running change to the lowers.
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My Totem's like that too. It's still going strong, no problems.
 
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