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Fiberfix: now, you can fix anything, including bicycles!

Old 06-10-14, 01:32 PM
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Fiberfix: now, you can fix anything, including bicycles!

If you break the top bar, seat post or fork on your bicycle, just wrap it with this stuff. (Look at the back of the box -- they marked in black parts of the bike that you can use this stuff to repair, or that they suggest using this stuff to repair or something.)

"It hardens like steel, 100x stronger than duct tape!"

Yeah, this won't turn out horribly, horribly wrong at all!



edit: this seems to not be an accident, as they've put up this video where they use it to repair the frame of a bike -- which is quite impressive, but the fork gets more stress than that and there's not enough room to put more than a few inches of the stuff there where they used a whole foot on the frame.

I mean, this stuff looks pretty cool, but suggesting that it can be used to fix your *fork* right there is asking for a lawsuit when somebody loses all their teeth or worse.
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Old 06-10-14, 03:29 PM
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Intriguing promises, to say the least. Though I'm tempted to classify it as a last resort, temporary fix. Having said that, I could see it having a place alongside a fiber spoke for emergency, unsupported repairs to get you to the next shop or stop.
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Now I'll quit using duct tape to repair broken forks.
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I don't know if I would use it to splice 2 sawed tubes, but for a cracked or bent part, then I could trust it 100%.
Lately I have been making things with CF and epoxy. My first practice test was to wrap a broken steel fork with 2 or 3 layers.
2 days later I lay it on the cement floor and hit it as hard as I could with a hammer. The epoxy surface dented some. I kind of doubt a car jack could crush it now.
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Bicycles are minimalist structures by design. A tube or component cracks because it's either been catastrophically damaged, or fatigued due to reaching the end of its useful life. Honestly, patching with JB Weld or freaking tape is a rather pathetic and sketchy temporary fix that's just asking for trouble if you trust it. You need to look deeper and understand why something failed and then deal with it responsibly, not just slap a band-aid on it and say "yup, that'll do er."
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Isn't FiberFix also the name of the temporary spoke repair kit?
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