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happycampyer · #**751** 08-08-2019, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by AngryScientist

i can not un-see those shorts. yikes.

I dare you to show up at D2R2 dressed like that, belt buckle and all...

Burnette · #**752** 08-08-2019, 06:59 PM

I believe there's some experimentation going on while compiling the blahg:

"Just don't ride carbon forks. Just-like, don't, I mean WHY? The best thing you get from a carbon fork is risk. Can you ever descend a hill and be really sure? Steel can fail. It's unlikely, and it won't snap. OK, I'll shut up. These are good companies, but they're in a trap. They'd close in a month without carbon. The irony with this one is...who it is. They should OWN their original material, and put on steel forks like they used to when there were no carbon options.

Nobody here feels smug or satisfied when this stuff comes out. Steel has been vindicated for decades, so we don't need more of that, either. I don't know what KIND of problem this is. Is it with carbon itself? With the manufacturers who know it goes, who fear theirs will fail, but who do it anyway? It's easy for me to squawk as long as we don't have a history of broken carbon bikes, but how holy would I be if we did, and depended on continuing to sell them?".

https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/peekin...e-knothole/aug

bcroslin · #**753** 08-08-2019, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Burnette

I believe there's some experimentation going on while compiling the blahg:

"Just don't ride carbon forks. Just-like, don't, I mean WHY? The best thing you get from a carbon fork is risk. Can you ever descend a hill and be really sure? Steel can fail. It's unlikely, and it won't snap. OK, I'll shut up. These are good companies, but they're in a trap. They'd close in a month without carbon. The irony with this one is...who it is. They should OWN their original material, and put on steel forks like they used to when there were no carbon options.

Nobody here feels smug or satisfied when this stuff comes out. Steel has been vindicated for decades, so we don't need more of that, either. I don't know what KIND of problem this is. Is it with carbon itself? With the manufacturers who know it goes, who fear theirs will fail, but who do it anyway? It's easy for me to squawk as long as we don't have a history of broken carbon bikes, but how holy would I be if we did, and depended on continuing to sell them?".

https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/peekin...e-knothole/aug

I’ve broken a handful of carbon bikes and yet I ride a ti bike with a carbon fork

Btw - if I was honest with myself I’d dress like Al and not like the rest of you MAMILS but jean shorts make me chafe.

mtechnica · #**754** 08-08-2019, 07:23 PM

Burnette · #**755** 08-08-2019, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by bcroslin

I’ve broken a handful of carbon bikes and yet I ride a ti bike with a carbon fork

Btw - if I was honest with myself I’d dress like Al and not like the rest of you MAMILS but jean shorts make me chafe.

So i guess the classifieds will get clogged with people dumping carbon bikes now as people have taken to standing hub deep in water while wearing daisy dukes and being high on 'shrooms.

If these kinds of things get out people are going to think cyclists are weird

prototoast · #**756** 08-08-2019, 07:35 PM

I want everyone to have fun on bikes in their own way. That's definitely not my way.

peanutgallery · #**757** 08-08-2019, 09:39 PM

I give up, I'm at a loss on this one. Hipsters are rougher than the 2nd law of thermodynamics

mtechnica · #**758** 08-08-2019, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by peanutgallery

I give up, I'm at a loss on this one. Hipsters are rougher than the 2nd law of thermodynamics

Is someone that tries THAT hard to look like a hipster, in fact a hipster? Inquiring hipsters would like to know... Also see above .gif

peanutgallery · #**759** 08-08-2019, 10:18 PM

The lack of a canteen is a dead giveaway, I think you are on to something

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Originally Posted by mtechnica

Is someone that tries THAT hard to look like a hipster, in fact a hipster? Inquiring hipsters would like to know... Also see above .gif

oldpotatoe · #**760** 08-09-2019, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Burnette

So i guess the classifieds will get clogged with people dumping carbon bikes now as people have taken to standing hub deep in water while wearing daisy dukes and being high on 'shrooms.

If these kinds of things get out people are going to think cyclists are weird

Guy needs to put his shirt back on..I thought I had a muffin top..

Hope he stays outta CO

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Mark McM · #**761** 08-09-2019, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Burnette

I believe there's some experimentation going on while compiling the blahg:

"Just don't ride carbon forks. Just-like, don't, I mean WHY? The best thing you get from a carbon fork is risk. Can you ever descend a hill and be really sure? Steel can fail. It's unlikely, and it won't snap. OK

I've seen two broken steel forks that caused crashes. I didn't actually witnessed one of the crashes, but in the one I did, the (steel) steerer just snapped. I've seen multiple carbon forks that were broken in crashes, but I don't think I've seen one that caused a crash.

CunegoFan · #**762** 08-09-2019, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Burnette

I believe there's some experimentation going on while compiling the blahg:

"Just don't ride carbon forks. Just-like, don't, I mean WHY? The best thing you get from a carbon fork is risk. Can you ever descend a hill and be really sure? Steel can fail. It's unlikely, and it won't snap. OK, I'll shut up. These are good companies, but they're in a trap. They'd close in a month without carbon. The irony with this one is...who it is. They should OWN their original material, and put on steel forks like they used to when there were no carbon options.

Nobody here feels smug or satisfied when this stuff comes out. Steel has been vindicated for decades, so we don't need more of that, either. I don't know what KIND of problem this is. Is it with carbon itself? With the manufacturers who know it goes, who fear theirs will fail, but who do it anyway? It's easy for me to squawk as long as we don't have a history of broken carbon bikes, but how holy would I be if we did, and depended on continuing to sell them?".

https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/peekin...e-knothole/aug

Jeebus! It's like he was frozen in 1991, unthawed ,and is back to promote FUD about carbon forks, something that was settled twenty years ago. Do his customers actually buy this crap or is he so out of touch he is not even aware his would-be buyers are rolling their eyes?

redir · #**763** 08-09-2019, 10:12 AM

LOL! That was great.

R3awak3n · #**764** 08-09-2019, 10:14 AM

You guys are being dicks. Leave the dude alone. Who cares what he looks like or if he is a hipster or not. Yall better than this I thought

FlashUNC · #**765** 08-09-2019, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by R3awak3n

You guys are being dicks. Leave the dude alone. Who cares what he looks like or if he is a hipster or not. Yall better than this I thought

Cyclists love to eat their own. Never mind he's getting exactly the reaction he said he wanted to provoke in the "squares." So it's a great square detector.