boy, I'm damn glad I sold off all of my carbon forks. When you can only have the factory stem installed without risking failure, the bike mfgers have gone beyond the necessary safety margins which should be designed into their products. Hopefully none of the related crashes resulted in any permanent injuries to the riders.
~Mike~ On Jun 20, 2:50 pm, Angus <angusle...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > That is an interesting article. > > The carbon steerer in question doesn't seem to be robust to deviation > from the approved components/torques/assembly procedures. > > Those are impressively light bicycles, but I'll choose to stick with > my Rivendells thanks. > > Angus > > On Jun 18, 1:59 pm, RoadieRyan <rya...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Noticed this today on VN today > > >http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/06/news/steered-wrong-racers-conc... > > > Riv Content Carbonomas plug- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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-bu...@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.
