bmadau said:
How did you even remember this thread still existed after 3.5 years? Did you have it bookmarked with today's (yesterday's?) date marked in your outlook calender to remind you to follow up on this one?
Dude, I was just sitting there in my living room and I heard this noise coming from the garage... I ran out to see what it was, and my carbon bars, post, cranks, headset spacers, all just shattered simultaneously... Crazy...
Should've shelled out for some Ti bits...
Seriously though, I've been riding the same carbon widgets for a few years now, and are actually on my 2nd frame. My first frame, being alu- cracked. Imagine that.
Doesn't anyone think, that by now, if carbon junk was inherently unsafe, that component and carbon frame manufacturers would have been sued by now?
BM
we all know carbon's strong, but
isn't carbon prone to cracks when struck and shattering when it fails?
some of us, either due to lack of finess or penchant for aggressive descending, crash onto rocks now and then (for NorCal riders, think Downieville's Butcher Creek-2nd Divide).
so i've been buying al. alloy part and, when avail., titanium parts.
I ten years I've broken or bent four aluminum seapost or seatpost clamps (I've still have not broken my Thompson Elite).
now I am considering buying, agast, an all carbon frame, a 575.
I'm also concerned about carbon brake levers (Oro Puros) and will order alloy spare levers, just as a reserve.
i've been shopping for 27" wide riser bars...hard to find them in titanium (or even in al.) so I may well end up buying a carbon bar, Mokeylite or what ever