On Mar 6, 9:41 am, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > On Mar 6, 2010, at 10:22 AM, bfd wrote: > > > I know many here will disagree with me, but I'm tired of Grant's > > constant carbon bashing. What he doesn't mention is that carbon frames > > can be repaired. Craig Calfee repairs carbon fiber frames and does a > > fantastic job. > > Unfortunately many carbon repairs fall into the scenario of shutting > the barn doors after the horse is gone. Since the first inkling of a > carbon failure is often catastrophic, your frame or fork might be > repairable but you may be preoccupied with recovering from your > injuries when your steerer tube snapped or the head tube parted > company with the rest of the frame. > > E.g.,http://www.bustedcarbon.com/ > > Steel just does not fail in this manner unless you ignore obvious > warning signs for a very long time. You could run over a steel bike > wiith a cement mixer and it would fare better than many of the items > on that blog have fared in pretty normal accidents. Grant's pointing > out the problems with carbon doesn't strike me as desperate, it > strikes me as concerned about people's safety.
Well, I don't mean to play devil's advocate-actually, I do, Tim, but when was the last time any of us actually did a pre-ride inspection similar to a pre-flight walk around a pilot of a light aircraft does? Have we checked for cracks, damage or other indicator of ill health in our bikes? I haven't recently and I'll bet many of us are as delinquent. Phil Brown -- 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.
