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Old 03-09-22 | 08:59 PM
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Bikes: '15 LeMond Washoe custom painted, '06 LeMond Croix de fer custom painted, '18 Specialized Crux

Originally Posted by Mojo31
The pictures show a number of threaded inserts such as for the cage brazeons. I can't imagine that they are made of carbon due to the fragility of threaded carbon. Plus, if the idea is to eliminate galvanic corrosion by threading directly into carbon, then that does not make sense unless you have carbon screws. Some of the descriptions just seem implausible. Anyway, if I were a buyer I wouldn't want to be an early adopter.
I interpreted the description as pretty explicit in saying the threaded areas are fully carbon. The reason why galvanic corrosion is a concern on other carbon bikes is because everyone else utilizes threaded aluminum inserts bonded into the carbon frame, and when you use alloy screws with alloy inserts you can get galvanic corrosion. Hence, you can eliminate galvanic corrosion as a possibility through the use of fully carbon threads, which allows the end user to use any metal screw they want and not have to worry about galvanic corrosion.

I, too, am interested about the durability of threaded carbon.
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