Peter, it's always decided by actuaries (insurance) and pockets (potential defendants). But if I was Trek, I would be worried, because they have pockets.
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:17:21 AM UTC-5, George Millwood wrote: > > See the horror stories on carbon fibre at:- > > http://www.bustedcarbon.com/ > > These go back to 2011 as the guy running the blog ran out of enthusiasm > for the subject. Still it is sobering to see that racing bikes break, > production bikes break, 29ers break, they all break and it is disastrous as > the break in sudden and has caused serious injury. > > I was watching the Tour Down Under on TV a few years back when a racer did > a face pant at speed following a frame/fork failure. It made a real mess of > him and discouraged me from ever riding carbon fibre. I know I will > attract a storm of people whio have ridden cf for years without a problem > and other stating that those were the early days and all is rosy now but I > since I cycle to lose weight from this 1947 model homo sapiens I can't be > bothered. > > I run a Company that has payment kiosks fabricated and talking with the > materials guy at the manufacturing plant, some things emerged. In his > opinion and from his research, carbon fibre is liable to fail following a > nick of crack which can escape observation. Carbon fibre tubs in motorcars > are protected from such damage by the bodywork. This problem has led to > carbon fibre being manufactured with titanium mesh as the last lay up. > Either that or it looks really cool and they can charge a lot more money > for it. > > George Millwood > Wollongong Australia where it is late Autumn which means that it only hit > 22C on an overcast day., > > > >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
