Originally Posted by
Oldairhead
before the bonded joints failed!
My teammate at UC Davis wrecked hard at the 1995 Collegiate Nationals on a Specialized Epic. He flew into the curb like actually flying through the air and the front wheel hit the curb and broke the aluminum rim into 2 pieces. The frame broke at the top tube /head tube junction. It wasn't the bond that broke. It was the internal aluminum lug that broke. The glue joint held.