more of those damn hipsters... https://www.lileks.com/oldads/30s/6.html

Everyone seems to generalise as "carbon will snap instead of bend" and "aluminum will bend before it breaks". This is not entirely true. Armstrong's CF chainstay actually stayed intact after a bad crash during one stage of the TdF even though it was actually broken and bending. Hincapie's aluminum steerer catistrophically failed. I've seen CF fail gradually in other instances too as I've seen aluminum snap. The deciding factour is how much force is applied. A stress high enough to exceed aluminum's UTS will cause a catistrophic failure regardless of the material's plastic region. Forget yield strength and young's modulus... they're all irrelevant at that point.

I was always under the impression that unlike steel, aluminum will snap instead of bend.

Well, generally speaking, steel does have a longer plastic deformation region than aluminum and aluminum does have a larger region than CF. This is all generalisations however.

Yeah, my "impression" was based on equal parts hear-say and assumption.

any progress on accessing a scanner?

Tomorrow at work.

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HAha, YES.
Sorry, putting the book in my bag as we speak.
Tomorrow, I promise.

And while we're pestering hyperRevue, how about that rim?

Oh man, am I really this unreliable?
**** me.
Both of these will be done by the end of the week.

Soma has a coffee holder on their page. I'm sure it could be put to better use.

Soma "major taylor", one one "midge" and i believe some nitto models have a shallow drop like that...