I think he got it exactly wrong. Commuting to work on a CF frame is a fashion statement that trumps reason.
I once considered buying a CF fork for my '88 Marinoni stage racing frame. On the way out of the bike shop parking lot, while I was diligently watching traffic, my front wheel went down into an old fashion storm grate. I went over the handle bars, then reached up and caught my bike before it landed on me. I then got up and rode fifteen miles home on my steel fork without a worry in the world. I haven't given a thought to a CF fork since. Michael On May 14, 6:59 pm, scott <clankbonesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't care one way or another about the Carbon Fiber issue. But, in > a recent thread I spotted this quote that I have been thinking about: > > .there is nothing wrong with > steel bicycle frames or the people who ride them, like them, or make > them. I > just proposed to the frame builder list here that steel bikes must be > considered as a fashion decision. This is not a put down at all. Lots > to > things from the past have value but are not very commercially viable. > Vinyl > records, film cameras, mechanical watches, steel bike frames all have > their > place with a small fanatic following." > > I don't know about "Fashion Decision," but I have vinyl records that > are 50+ years old that still play great. I had an Ipod that sh@t out > on me after being left in the cold and CD's that skip even though I > try to take good care of them. My film camera has been repaired and > should last another 20 years hopefully, yet my first digital camera > didn't last two years. I have a tube guitar amp that sounds fantastic > that is 40 years old and has been repaired. My pops recently left me > his 1928 Gibson mandolin that was once run over by a car (the > headstock needed repair) that sounds better than any mandolin I've > ever heard. These things are metaphors for handmade steel bicycle > frames I suppose. But I hope that in fifty years my Sam Hilborne (yet > to be delivered) will be around with the mandolin and tube amp. > > Scott -- 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.
