I'm begining to smell the distinct and very foul odor of, "Class Action Lawsuit"!! Pedaldog, do not STOP until all these bastards are made to pay for your personal pain and suffering... It breaks my heart to see a man suffering needlessly when trying to enjoy a healthy, recreational activity and the very gear that should be adding to his pleasure is, INSTEAD, making him hurt where he should feel ease, making him feel sadness when his emotions should be joyous and lastly-making him take the added time to explain such atrocities on the internet(at his own expense I must add!!)to be able to try to purge his angst.
I am sickened, just sickened. I have cancelled my Thorn eXp order. Robin never ONCE told me that touring around the world could have ANY difficulties like you've mentioned-matter of fact, I recall Robin saying to me, "Buy the eXp and I'll let you in on a little secret: it requires no pedaling up hill and makes headwinds vanish" I thought that seemed a little too good to be true but he assured me it was the truth and further went on to say, "Yeah, it's in the welds and also one other bit of design brilliance on our behalf-during the construction of every eXp frame we fill the seatstays and downtube with aged goat urine before welding the tubes closed. Somehow the molecular structure of the enzymes in goat's urine counteracts both-gravity and headwind direction. Of course we were more than pleased to discover this and then went on to find that by aging the urine of a particular species of goat that the effect was heightened by nearly 7.899.99% over non-aged urinal varieties"
Liar!
I guess old Robby Thorn will be thinking twice when he considers putting up a forumboard for his bikes in the future!
BUYER BEWARE!![
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