Yeah, I thought as much, asked on reddit as well and got a similar response, although they did say you may as well give them a poke, they might honor it out of goodwill for the brand or whatever. I doubt it, the contact us on crc doesn't even work, but I mean the worst you will get is a template "old warranties not valid" or similar, I doubt I'll be the first to ask, most people aren't online and keeping up so crc is just crc. Even if it was old crc, think it would still be new frame or bike time anyway, found a post from years back, where someone had a crack in the same area, on a bike about the same age (mine is 4 years 4 months old) and they got given warranty credit to put towards a new frame.
Frames yeah, looking around a lot are like £600 or 29" only, pointless as you can get decent value full bikes from one of halfords in house brands and get all new for not much more, those have lifetime warranty on frame as well (halfords will probably go bust if I order), it just seems such a waste, everything else is fine, you would think there would be some cheaper like £300 or so frames. People can't just be throwing away bikes and buying new if they have a crash or frame issue outside of warranty can they.
Honestly can't believe it's done it to me, at christmas as well. My brother had an orange crush frame crack in the same spot (right above the seat tube/toptube weld), is that a weak spot on bikes as it seems strange for two different bikes to fail same way. There's always been plenty of seatpost in there, there's around 18cm below the weld, so can't be that. I ride a decent amount, but none of it is super hard (local forest), worked it out that's done around 6700miles, is that a lot for an alloy frame? It's definitely cracked within the last 3 months, I didn't notice it while riding, only noticed when cleaning, but it wasn't there when I did a full clean after this summers riding (around september). Before that I had a steel frame, that did about 10000 miles over the years, including a crash where it went bouncing down a hill and was no worse for wear.
Frame or bike is also a load of stress as well, no matter what I always fall between large/medium. When I measured for the vitus I was 177.4Cm height, 84cm bike inside leg (so book, in my case spirit level shoved up there to measure, just to be clear) and 180.5cm arm span. Apparently got some gorilla arms going on here, even with sweatshirts I get shafted, large is better body fit, but arms are too short, xl is a big baggy, but the arms don't ride up.
That pretty without fails put me on medium for height, but large for legs, and no one says for armspan. So now that's another load of stress, which size do I go, have I got it right and even if it's all good, it's still going to feel alien. The vitus was like an old comfy chair after 1000s of miles.
Honestly still fuming at it, a crash is one thing at least I could be annoyed at myself, but this I did nothing, it's just bent me over
. I know what I have feels really good, but I don't really understand how the various bits of geometry effect stuff, so will definitely be picking peoples brain.