you've got to admit tho, most of the complaints at TT are due to availability issues rather than fitment - you have complained of this yourself.


Looking at the photo of the Yam bashplate breakage (bikings pic) with a fabricators eye, i would say that 90deg is quite a tight fold for a small tab of ally. i would imagine if the break was cleaned and welded (properly)it would probably be fine. This doesn't excuse Yam, but it would solve the problem IMO. if i had a failure like that on a product of mine/ours i would be checking the material specs to make sure the correct grade of ally was used, if it's not the right type then folding it wil very signifcantly reduce the strength at that point.