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Old 10-16-04 | 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by MelloBoy
didn't tyler hamilton's carbon fiber handlebars break mid tour or something this year causing him to crash? or was it that he crashed and had to have the cf handlebars unwrapped and inspected before he could keep going?

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Not sure about Tyler, but there was a rider on the Davitamin team who had a TIME stem failure.
I'm sure that the TIME folks will be reviewing how this stem is designed as well as the quality control present in the manufacturing process. Failures of this type are exceedingly rare, but regardless of material be it carbon fiber, ti, steel or aluminum, given human error in design or manufacturing once in awhile something breaks...
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