The next carbon fad...
03-11-09 | 08:58 AM
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The next carbon fad...
Exposed carbon weave is played out.
I bet the next style fad in cycling will be....... "natural" carbon.
Red and DA7900 shifters... Tarmac frames... Reynolds wheels....
Just predicting... two years from now we'll all be groaning "enough already".
I bet the next style fad in cycling will be....... "natural" carbon.
Red and DA7900 shifters... Tarmac frames... Reynolds wheels....
Just predicting... two years from now we'll all be groaning "enough already".
03-11-09 | 09:32 AM
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03-11-09 | 09:49 AM
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sweet sweet carbon fibre clothing... that's as good as wearing asbestos and glass fibre
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Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
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Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
https://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/arti...ger-photos.htm
03-11-09 | 10:22 AM
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03-11-09 | 10:31 AM
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I thought they used glass-fibre top layer over the carbon to get the 'white' carbon.
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Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
https://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/arti...ger-photos.htm
Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
https://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/arti...ger-photos.htm
03-11-09 | 10:57 AM
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But yes, brief research suggests Texallium, aluminum coated glass. Used as top layer. But then, I read about hexagonal Boron nitride fibres, being referred to as white carbon fibre.
Anybody know which is used in bikes?
03-11-09 | 11:03 AM
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03-11-09 | 11:32 AM
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03-11-09 | 11:40 AM
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03-11-09 | 11:44 AM
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Carbon spoke nipples, carbon waterbottles, carbon eyeglasses, carbon grips, carbon saddlebags, carbon cables and housing, helmets with a full carbon shell, and especially carbon tires-rubber is so last century.
To be serious, I think the next advancements in frames and components will come from the use of composites besides carbon. Carbon fiber is only one branch of the composites family and other composite types will be found to perform better than carbon for some applications.
To be serious, I think the next advancements in frames and components will come from the use of composites besides carbon. Carbon fiber is only one branch of the composites family and other composite types will be found to perform better than carbon for some applications.
03-11-09 | 12:12 PM
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Modulus Guitars (formerly Modulus Graphite) used to -- or, for all I know, still does -- make a carbon pattern that served the same purpose as exposed weave (i.e., none, save for aesthetics) only it was completely random, rather than that boring predictable repeating pattern of traditional weave. They call it KLD (acronym for "Thousand Ladies Dancing") and you can see it on the neck of this bass guitar:
I think that would look hawt for a bike frame!
03-11-09 | 12:36 PM
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