I'm not speaking of "what was" or even what *appears *to be. All of that is old news . So all arguments for what *appears* to be , are for nothing but more self imposed limitations.
And that's fine for those who want that :) But everyone hungers for something . . . . and there is no hunger of the imagination that does not go satiated ! Again, nothing exists . . .. *NOTHING* . . . that was not first imagined to exist . Without the imagination , the hunger for something greater that what *appears* to be . . . . there is nothing to experience . On Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:37:15 PM UTC-4, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 07/27/2014 04:58 PM, Garth wrote: > > > > Oh .... idk . .. . I really wonder how many die hard steel > > enthusiasts would own a carbon(or some future iteration of it) frame > > if they could get it the exact same dimensions as their fav steel > > version. With all the mounting points, etc. > > Don't count on it. When BQ tested their first Calfee the question was > raised about rack mounts, and Calfee provided a response in a side bar: > if a bike falls over with a load on a rack, it puts an off-angle stress > on the rack and mounting points. Carbon frames when subjected to that > kind of stress tend to split, like a cane of bamboo. (In fact, I know > two people in the local bike club who had carbon frames with downtubes > that split when the bikes fell over with full water bottles.) So Calfee > says mount a rack with a P-clamp, so that when the bike falls over the > rack will shift rather than split the tube. > > There's another issue as well: the economics of molded carbon (1st copy > costs a million bucks, 2nd copy costs 10 cents) vs metal, where 1st, 2nd > and nth copy cost the same. Those Riv-style bikes just aren't as > popular these days as road racers, and the economics of low volume > production with carbon are punishing compared with metals. > > > > I suspect many would own at least one such bike, if not already. And > > please, do not say "such a frame doesn't exist" , it may not exist > > here and now, but just because it is not seen before the eyes, does > > not mean it does not and will not exist . > > > -- 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.
