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Old 05-31-09, 03:33 PM
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There is some good discussion here.

Originally Posted by Omni.Potent
I thought they did...

http://nbhaa.com/indexBowden.html
This might be the first one I have ever read of. Not bad.

Originally Posted by flatlander_48
Good but not good enough. Strength to weight and stiffness to weight is far superior for carbon fiber.
If you use E-glass, it (the glass) is somewhat inferior. If you use S-glass, it is slightly inferior, but that also hinges on the cost of the S-glass, I suppose. Now quartz fiber would be more interesting, with strengths in excess of 10 GPa.

Originally Posted by StephenH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itera_plastic_bicycle

I'm not sure if this was fiberglass, but of interest none-the-less.
Ah yes, I forgot to bring this up. If people tried plastic bicycles, which have relatively low stiffness-to-weight ratios, then of course fiberglass should've been tried from this era as well. I imagine sometime around the 1980's, but I haven't seen anything other than the 1960's example above.
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