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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 07-15-14, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
You're just saying that because they told you to...
Damn, I'm busted.
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Originally Posted by 3alarmer
...hey man, it's science. I don't write this stuff, I just link to it.

I'll link some stuff about carbon composite materials failure mode if you want ?
I meant I am in complete agreement.
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Old 07-15-14, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by mercator
Seems like the confusion has been resolved, so is this an advertising opportunity for Bianchi?
Just as light as a Specialized, but stronger!
Bianchi has never been just as light as any other bike. As heavy as some other boat anchors, but never just as light.
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Originally Posted by RollCNY
Please show me where I called a member anything? You asked for an example of how someone on the internet could be an idiot about this, and I gave a specific answer. I would never insult an individual member, and you are clearly a member.
I see what you did there!
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Originally Posted by kc0bbq
It shattered from touching newspaper? Holy cow.
Hard news!
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Originally Posted by mercator
Seems like the confusion has been resolved, so is this an advertising opportunity for Bianchi?
Just as light as a Specialized, but stronger!
I like it!
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Pinche carbón!
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So, it's now a race of who rides the best platic?
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Originally Posted by Lazyass
Nobody "accused" them. It's an irrefutable fact that Specialized commented before getting facts.

What did Specialized know, and when did they know it?
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Hahahahahaha. I love seeing the guys having a good time arguing foolishness. Who gives a eff?
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Originally Posted by RollCNY
Steel is the original carbon fiber.
...why can I not buy a frame made from steel wool fibers laid up in epoxy ? There's your conspiracy.
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A quick perusal reveals we've invoked:

Asia
eBay
Kennedy
Clinton
Lance
Ducati
Columbo
Muggers
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Long live the 41s!
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Originally Posted by DXchulo
https://twitter.com/Matxin_/status/4...873408/photo/1

That one convinces me.

Porino sucks at journalism, Specialized sucks at PR, and whoever was driving that particular team car sucks at driving.
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Originally Posted by Macster
Hahahahahaha. I love seeing the guys having a good time arguing foolishness. Who gives a eff?
I like this one more...really, is anyone really that emotionally invested in this?
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Originally Posted by hack
I like this one more...really, is anyone really that emotionally invested in this?
Are you kidding? This is the best day to be a ferrophile since Hincappie's fork!
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Originally Posted by halfspeed
Are you kidding? This is the best day to be a ferrophile since Hincappie's fork!
Ahh..."Hincapie's Fork Day". Tried to take that day off from work as a holiday and boss lauged at me while riding off on his new "rider size specific engineered for harmony tarmac".
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Originally Posted by hack
I like this one more...really, is anyone really that emotionally invested in this?
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I understand that both Sinyard and Contador post disinformation in this forum using pseudonyms. Anyone care to guess who?
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Originally Posted by merlinextraligh
I've got an idea; let's ask Alberto what happened. Tons of speculation; very little information.
That would be absolutely no fun.
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Originally Posted by halfspeed
The desperation of the ferrophiles looking for the "smoking ***" that validates their odd preconceptions about carbon is almost palpable!
Ferrophiles...I like that.
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Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina
Did you see the photo of the bike being pulled from the BELKIN car?

The BELKIN team manager has already confirmed the accident.

There is no story.
And yet , the thread just keeps going and going.
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Nobody is here for the facts...just for the sake of arguing or for one upping the other guy.
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Originally Posted by halfspeed
This story is like Christmas for ferrophiles. The excitement of the initial story followed by the dismay of the credit card bills called "actual facts".
Seems like it's Christmas for the anti-ferrophiles as well.
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Originally Posted by bbeasley
A quick perusal reveals we've invoked:

Asia
eBay
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Clinton
Lance
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Yosemite Sam
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Don't forget Lee Harvey Oswald.
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