Titanium or stick with carbon for a winter bike?

[croftsj]

So having just dropped £4K on a Tri bike, this morning I have found a crack in a seat stay on my 2 year old Giant Defy Advanced Pro, no idea where or when this has happened and have to say not impressed. My old Felt winter hack died of a snapped chain stay after a big crash, the Defy replaced it.

I'm looking to go for a disc frameset and forks only and use the components from the Defy to keep the costs reasonable and give me a small project over the coming weeks.
Winter use only really, a few overseas sportives, Roubaix, Flanders and Amstel Gold this coming spring.

So looking around the £1k -£1350 bracket and a 58-61 cm depending on geo.

Any recommendations? Like the look of the Lynskey R250 R265 or the Sportive.

[45Flipper]

I could be wrong, but doesn't Giant have some kind of lifetime, or long warranty on frames? Might be worth checking that out first.

Cheers

Flipper

[ALawson]

Was going to say the same, they will probably be open to a swap or discussion about improvement assuming you are the first owner of the frame.

[croftsj]

Well I never knew that, just checked I have all my original documents and sure enough a lifetime warranty on the frame, I wonder if they'll argue it was a crash that caused it, one way to find out, back to the LBS next week.

[mcelliott]

If it's anything like Trek, they won't question anything about how the crack appeared. I had a crack appear around my bottom bracket on a 10 year old Trek, and was given a brand new replacement - no questions asked.