While this kind of failure is certainly not unheard of, it's not exactly the norm for good quality frames in my experience; I've had quite a few old and well us

While this kind of failure is certainly not unheard of, it's not exactly the norm for good quality frames in my experience; I've had quite a few old and well used but high quality frames. One of my frames did start to crack, but it is now 35 years old - it's an Olmo record