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07-09-11, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Nicface

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies!

Turns out the seat post is carbon coated alloy, so I think we're good there!

The fork is carbon, and Specialized advised that they have a weight limit of 250lbs, so I'm very slightly over by 1.7kg. Boo.

Still, I think I'll be ok, and should be able to lose that weight quite quickly. And I don't imagine that one gram over 250lbs, and the entire fork will collapse! Happy to be corrected though

Thanks again.

There's the real breakage limit, the marketing breakage limit and the legal department breakage limit.

The engineers design it and fab a few up for testing and determine that the fork can withstand 800 pounds or so. Marketing gets a hold of it and says "We can advertise it with a 500 pound weight limit and stomp the competition!" Then legal gets the ad copy and says "Cut that in half, just to cover our butts."

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