Tarik, Hardly the same, steerer tubes break on all types of frames, but you will be hard pressed to find a simpler mid-fork blade failure especially, if you disregard any forks with braze-ons. Bicycle Manufactures are not playing with a full deck when it comes to carbon fork and frame design, and to assert otherwise is misleading.
Joe On 11/24/08, tarik saleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sure, > > http://greenblatt.smugmug.com/gallery/4369627_VBaPB#367598179_7xqDb-XL-LB > Thats a JRA failure, not a crash. The fork just separated while > riding. Is that similar enough? > > I think that is a kogswell that was made at a same plant where > surly/soma make there stuff, possibly others more germane to the list. > > Again, there have been plenty of shoddily made steel frames that still > are out there and plenty of steel frames that exist from reputable > builders that have broken suddenly. > > . I am not going to defend carbon as the right material choice for > you, it probably isn't if you are on this list, but you should not be > so confident that crap like that will never happen to you because you > are on a steel bike. > > > Tarik > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Joe Szokoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Tarik, > > > > Can you show me something like this in steel?? > > > > > http://www.cyclingnews.com/newsphotos.php?id=/photos/2008/news/nov08/nov22news/DSC_0021 > > > > smug and self-congratulatory, > > -- > > Joe Szokoli > > New York City > > > > > > > > > > -- > Tarik Saleh > tas at tariksaleh dot com > in los alamos, po box 208, 87544 > http://tariksaleh.com > all sorts of bikes blog: http://tsaleh.blogspot.com > > > > -- Joe Szokoli New York City --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
