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07-16-14, 09:45 PM
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07-16-14, 10:58 PM
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...I tried to inject some new life with my suggestion that a simple weight limit adjustment upward
would be the answer to so many problems with your disposable bikes, but you guys are all about
the pursuit of lightness at the expense of durability, so I give up.
10 kg minimum for a bike would allow a whole other side of racing to develop........like in the good ol' days.
At least all your plastic bikes will be around for a long time after they break as wall art, impervious to rust.
would be the answer to so many problems with your disposable bikes, but you guys are all about
the pursuit of lightness at the expense of durability, so I give up.
10 kg minimum for a bike would allow a whole other side of racing to develop........like in the good ol' days.
At least all your plastic bikes will be around for a long time after they break as wall art, impervious to rust.
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07-17-14, 12:14 AM
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Do the cool kids say "Spesh" now? 
That's what I've learnt from this thread.
Oh no! No wonder I've been ostracized
That's what I've learnt from this thread. Oh no! No wonder I've been ostracized
07-17-14, 01:38 AM
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I've broken 3 steel bikes in my life. All were high end steel. I only rode alloy for a season and hated it. Now it's 15+ years on only carbon without a failure. In fact, there are currently MILLIONS of carbon bikes being ridden on a regular bases and even more carbon forks.
So, yeah. I guess it is unproven technology that only the foolish would buy. (my eyes hurt from the huge roll of them I just did. So huge. Big, huge eye roll it was).
07-17-14, 05:10 AM
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07-17-14, 05:44 AM
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...I tried to inject some new life with my suggestion that a simple weight limit adjustment upward
would be the answer to so many problems with your disposable bikes, but you guys are all about
the pursuit of lightness at the expense of durability, so I give up.
10 kg minimum for a bike would allow a whole other side of racing to develop........like in the good ol' days.
At least all your plastic bikes will be around for a long time after they break as wall art, impervious to rust.
would be the answer to so many problems with your disposable bikes, but you guys are all about
the pursuit of lightness at the expense of durability, so I give up.
10 kg minimum for a bike would allow a whole other side of racing to develop........like in the good ol' days.
At least all your plastic bikes will be around for a long time after they break as wall art, impervious to rust.
07-17-14, 07:42 AM
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07-17-14, 08:07 AM
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07-17-14, 09:24 AM
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07-17-14, 11:00 AM
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07-17-14, 11:53 AM
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Troll? Willfully ignorant? Or just plain ignorant?
I've broken 3 steel bikes in my life. All were high end steel. I only rode alloy for a season and hated it. Now it's 15+ years on only carbon without a failure. In fact, there are currently MILLIONS of carbon bikes being ridden on a regular bases and even more carbon forks.
So, yeah. I guess it is unproven technology that only the foolish would buy. (my eyes hurt from the huge roll of them I just did. So huge. Big, huge eye roll it was).
I've broken 3 steel bikes in my life. All were high end steel. I only rode alloy for a season and hated it. Now it's 15+ years on only carbon without a failure. In fact, there are currently MILLIONS of carbon bikes being ridden on a regular bases and even more carbon forks.
So, yeah. I guess it is unproven technology that only the foolish would buy. (my eyes hurt from the huge roll of them I just did. So huge. Big, huge eye roll it was).
now comes on and tells me I'm willfully ignorant. The reason you can't roll your eyes is that as a dark dwarf you have a
atrophied ocular musculature from being down there inside the earth in the dark all the time.
............................#moonlanding
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07-17-14, 12:04 PM
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Troll? Willfully ignorant? Or just plain ignorant?
I've broken 3 steel bikes in my life. All were high end steel. I only rode alloy for a season and hated it. Now it's 15+ years on only carbon without a failure. In fact, there are currently MILLIONS of carbon bikes being ridden on a regular bases and even more carbon forks.
So, yeah. I guess it is unproven technology that only the foolish would buy. (my eyes hurt from the huge roll of them I just did. So huge. Big, huge eye roll it was).
I've broken 3 steel bikes in my life. All were high end steel. I only rode alloy for a season and hated it. Now it's 15+ years on only carbon without a failure. In fact, there are currently MILLIONS of carbon bikes being ridden on a regular bases and even more carbon forks.
So, yeah. I guess it is unproven technology that only the foolish would buy. (my eyes hurt from the huge roll of them I just did. So huge. Big, huge eye roll it was).
07-17-14, 12:06 PM
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07-17-14, 12:22 PM
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Geez. 16 pages of empty speculation. Global warming caused the frame to asplode. I saw it for myself on Fox News.
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07-17-14, 12:32 PM
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Fox News and global warming were two glaring omissions but I've taken care of that already.
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07-17-14, 12:56 PM
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07-17-14, 02:04 PM
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...the simplest explanation, thus most likely, is that at one time Bdop was young, and strong, and rode fast and raced.
This would have been in the days of steel frames. Now, like many of us, he is old and feeble, and couldn't break anything
without the assistance of a sledge hammer. Thus his cabron fiber frames, ridden at 12 mph, seem to last forever.
.......................#bazinga
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