On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:12 AM, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
One thing is undeniable: there was no such widespread scuttlebutt
about steel, titanium or aluminum forks and frames breaking; for
whatever reason, the volume rather signifcantly increased only when
carbon fiber became common in the bike industry.
Well, there was the Lambert/Viscount "fork of death" which was a cast
aluminum one piece fork with a steel steerer tube pressed into the
fork "crown." These were known to separate and eject the rider to
the pavement with alacrity. I worked in a shop that sold Viscounts
(and from where I bought mine, which I rode for 8 years until the BB
spindle snapped, dumping me onto the road). And there are a lot of
other broken bike buts out there- including some whole galleries of
the things on the interwebs. Somre here:
http://pardo.net/bike/pic/
On a lighter note: it is also reassuring that one can now become a
trained and certified Rivendellian in just five years:
Indeed, there was a time when it might take decades for someone to
transform from a new cyclist to a Rivendell-riding fuddy-duddy, but
now the process only takes about five years.
I seemed to have turned into one of those before Rivendell came
along. Back in the BOB days when I saw my first Gazette, I thought
"geez, I recognize this kind of stuff. It's what I use!" I raced
from 1992-2000 and used modern stuff but my heart was never really in
it. As soon as I stopped racing it was back to friction downtube
shifters and fattish tires. Except for aero levers and clipless
pedals- two things I do like better.
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