Potential customers voted with their feet and bought elsewhere and after a few years under his direction, Bridgestone withdrew from the US market. The bikes were well made but he imposed his eccentric opinions and ideas on their components saying they were what riders should want. Second, the Grant Petersen-era at Bridgestone was technically interesting but a marketing and sales disaster. Others will have to chime in here with more accurate information. First, I've never heard of any routine frame failures so that may be a false rumor. Thanks.I owned two 1985/86 Bridgestone 400 road bikes, the low end of their "good" line at the time, and I've followed Bridgestone's and Petersen's trials and tribulations since. I've heard, however, that Bridgestones are prone to break at the headtube. It sounds as if the Grant Petersen-era Bridgestones are great bikes, and I'm thinking of trying to find one.
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