The Grant moves on

Seemingly fully recovered from his utter failure to put 650B over on a
credulous public, Papa Grant Peterson has a new crusade: fighting the
evils of carbon fiber racing bikes:

http://tinyurl.com/m72uga

Ozark Bicycle wrote:

Seemingly fully recovered from his utter failure to put 650B over on a
credulous public,

Careful-- the inch-sized 650B, alias "27.5er" MTB, may yet gain a
foothold.

Gawd, I hope not.

Papa Grant Peterson has a new crusade: fighting the
evils of carbon fiber racing bikes:

http://tinyurl.com/m72uga

$2000 does seem a little audacious for the equivalent of a 1980s Fuji
or (lest we forget) Bridgestone sport bike frame and fork. But dumber
things have happened.

For instance, $2000 disposable plastic frames and forks that last
until the first crash.

Chalo

Chalo wrote:
Ozark Bicycle wrote:
Seemingly fully recovered from his utter failure to put 650B over on a
credulous public,

Careful-- the inch-sized 650B, alias "27.5er" MTB, may yet gain a
foothold.

Gawd, I hope not.

Papa Grant Peterson has a new crusade: fighting the
evils of carbon fiber racing bikes:

http://tinyurl.com/m72uga

$2000 does seem a little audacious for the equivalent of a 1980s Fuji
or (lest we forget) Bridgestone sport bike frame and fork. But dumber
things have happened.

For instance, $2000 disposable plastic frames and forks that last
until the first crash.

Chalo

er, most things last until they fail, circus clown.

On Sep 11, 8:50*pm, Ozark Bicycle
wrote:
Seemingly fully recovered from his utter failure to put 650B over on a
credulous public, Papa Grant Peterson has a new crusade: fighting the
evils of carbon fiber racing bikes:

http://tinyurl.com/m72uga

The value argument is without merit. You can buy a steel or aluminum
road bike that's perfectly durable for a thousand bux. On the off
chance that it has "generic" or crappier than usual Taiwanese hubs,
the place where money is often saved--the wheels are easily replaced
for a couple or so hundred with some commodity Shimano/? stuff. The
other stuff--the RPM bottom brackets, the Tektro brakes, the Sora
components--all work fine. With the assumption that all the personal
fit bits are dialed--I can't see why one would be less satisfied other
than having an aesthetic preference--and with that a concern, CFRP
might be appealing to some. When the frame cracks--they're also an
inexpensive ebay commodity.

It's not 1910, robots make quite nice and stupidly cheap frames these
days. Sometimes they come with free basic components.

jim beam wrote:

Chalo wrote:

$2000 does seem a little audacious for the equivalent of a 1980s Fuji
or (lest we forget) Bridgestone sport bike frame and fork. *But dumber
things have happened.

For instance, $2000 disposable plastic frames and forks that last
until the first crash.

er, most things last until they fail, circus clown.

Not much plastic in the rescue stories here, feckless prick:

http://www.yellowjersey.org/fail.html

Chalo

Ozark Bicycle wrote:
Seemingly fully recovered from his utter failure to put 650B over on a
credulous public, Papa Grant Peterson has a new crusade: fighting the
evils of carbon fiber racing bikes:

http://tinyurl.com/m72uga

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a Rivendell with brifters?

--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007

Chalo wrote:
jim beam wrote:
Chalo wrote:
$2000 does seem a little audacious for the equivalent of a 1980s Fuji
or (lest we forget) Bridgestone sport bike frame and fork. �But dumber
things have happened.
For instance, $2000 disposable plastic frames and forks that last
until the first crash.
er, most things last until they fail, circus clown.

Not much plastic in the rescue stories here, feckless prick:

http://www.yellowjersey.org/fail.html

Chalo


1. "plastic", when you're referring to materials, which you're trying
clumsily to do, is a material with a specific deformation process. the
material to which you're /trying/ to refer is actually known as "cfrp".

2. not much cfrp in all these broken components:
http://pardo.net/bike/pic/fail-001/000.html

but you wouldn't know about fatigue in metals or have the integrity to
present unbiased information because you're just a circus clown.

"jim beam" wrote:

er, most things last until they fail, [...]

"beam" discovers the truism!

--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007

Tom Sherman °_° wrote:
"jim beam" wrote:

er, most things last until they fail, [...]

"beam" discovers the truism!


and the circus clown just flies off the handle.

Ozark Bicycle wrote:
Seemingly fully recovered from his utter failure to put 650B over on a
credulous public, Papa Grant Peterson has a new crusade: fighting the
evils of carbon fiber racing bikes:
http://tinyurl.com/m72uga

I heard that steel was rigid yet flexible. Maybe we could
make bicycles with it?

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971