Quoting PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com>: > > I am serious about wanting to see photos of broken carbon, btw. And this > raises a question about carbon fiber: I suppose that part of the problem is > stupid light cf, not cf per se, right? So, if you made a bike of cf that > isn't stupidly light, would it have any advantage over steel?
Steel bends. When bent, it sometimes can be bent back. That's what happened to my derailleur hanger back six or seven weeks ago, when my front wheel fell into the crack between two concrete lanes and I crashed, the accident that gave me "skier's thumb". As I was riding home after the crash, I noticed the derailleur was rubbing against the spokes when I was in the largest sprocket. I stopped off at a bike shop, and while I was purchasing a replacement jacket and tights to replace the ones that got torn in the crash, the shop realigned my derailleur hanger. Carbon does not bend. When it is stressed it breaks. In fact, the LBS said I was lucky I wasn't riding carbon when I crashed, because what for me was a simple $25 realignment on a carbon fiber frame would probably have been unrepairable, and a total loss. The mechanic could, of course, been mistaken. But they see a lot more wrecks on carbon than I do, and probably quite a few who crashed exactly where and how I did. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
