Transferable warranties are challenging because of the nature of the sport and the abuse our bikes take. Declining a second/Third/fourth owner because the issue at hand was actually due to crashes from a previous owner would become just plain not fun - subsequent owners do not know the history of the bike and bikes aren't often inspected properly on purchase, bikes no longer have a service record at the shop as they can be shipped across the country or world and we have no way of tracking services. Of course there will be fees and labor and a whole myriad of charges for the second owner because the shops aren't going to absorb the cost with our ever slimming margins. If companies would cover labor and shipping to shops like they do in the Moto and Auto worlds it would be a different story... but that would bump the price of the bikes up further, which consumers already struggle with (I'm looking at you , $850 bike with Tourney components)
Aluminum has a fatigue life - so longer warranties don't make sense there.
But what I will say is Specialized has changed their warranty ... Second owner gets a 1 year warranty on the frame within the first 2 years of original purchase date and i think that is reasonable.
Feb. 25, 2022, 9:15 a.m. - bart
Transferable warranties are challenging because of the nature of the sport and the abuse our bikes take. Declining a second/Third/fourth owner because the issue at hand was actually due to crashes from a previous owner would become just plain not fun - subsequent owners do not know the history of the bike and bikes aren't often inspected properly on purchase, bikes no longer have a service record at the shop as they can be shipped across the country or world and we have no way of tracking services. Of course there will be fees and labor and a whole myriad of charges for the second owner because the shops aren't going to absorb the cost with our ever slimming margins. If companies would cover labor and shipping to shops like they do in the Moto and Auto worlds it would be a different story... but that would bump the price of the bikes up further, which consumers already struggle with (I'm looking at you , $850 bike with Tourney components) Aluminum has a fatigue life - so longer warranties don't make sense there. But what I will say is Specialized has changed their warranty ... Second owner gets a 1 year warranty on the frame within the first 2 years of original purchase date and i think that is reasonable.