Originally Posted by
Jughed
Great insight guys… I’m a controls engineer, materials are not my thing.
So if I understand y’all, there is really no degradation and only one failure mode - complete failure.
That’s pretty much correct for a properly engineered, quality carbon frame. People sometimes talk about resin degradation, but I haven’t seen any evidence of it in other carbon applications and certainly not within a year or two. Maybe 30 years.
Most carbon failures are from manufacturing defects, crash damage or other abuse such as over-clamping tubes on bike racks.