You know how you wonder if that noise is coming from the bottom bracket?
Yes, definitely a problem there. My bike almost threw me off, as if to say "Save yourself!"
This
wasn't the first crack:or even the second:
"Now that's what I call a dropout"It was just the last.
The bike is clearly a write-off. And so, it turns out, am I as a customer of Enigma. Sold with a "lifetime" warranty (back before they changed it to 10 years with a "Loyalty" scheme which leaves much to be desired), Jim Walker has made it very clear to me that lifetime doesn't mean anything close to that. I wasn't expecting to ride it till I was 100 – as if – but I surely expected more than a decade on the road and multiple frame failures.
They've now asked for £600 to build a new one. I think I'll pass.
On another note of finality, I only just learned that Mark Reilly, the man who measured me up for it, died a few months ago.
I came across this on his Twitter feed, from back when he started Nerve Bikes. Having written my share of shall we say bold letters in my time, I retroactively approve.