Carbon is much much sturdier than you think. Carbon is also much more
trusted everywhere else in life than it is on this list. By the mode of
thinking around here, carbon would also have no place on a seatpost,
mountainbike, or a folder, or a car, airframe, in the military....
It'll be fine.
You'd be surprised at how overbuilt cheap carbon like that really is.
Top end racing carbon parts wouldn't be good for children, but then again,
neither would top end aluminum or lightweight steel. Carbon forks on
those cheap bikes, and by that I'm referring to anything retailing below
about $1500, are really study. Many of those forks aren't even that much
lighter. They are built sturdy, maybe tapered and aero, but they are
built like a tank.
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Deacon Patrick <lamontg...@mac.com> wrote:
> In a world of "racing light" is king, customers will buy carbon and be
> uninformed that the bikes are throwaway after the first hard knock (who can
> imagine that with a kid's bike?" or at the very least the frame integrity
> needs be checked by a competent specialist after every spill ("did you drop
> your bike today, Davey?". I think of the "fork wars" video: how many times
> as a kid did I leap off my bike, take a tumble, or simply slam my bike down
> hard, with a lot of lateral pressure on the fork/frame? Far more than I
> ever realized.
>
> What I find concerning is precisely that carbon has no place in a kid's
> bike. Ever. Yet they are offering it. It shows me their underlying
> principles of bicycling differ greatly from mine.
>
> With abandon,
> Patrick
>
> On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 3:51:39 PM UTC-6, Brewster Fong wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't get this post. So what if they are expanding into carbon? I
>> don't think a carbon bike by itself is going to cause all the death and
>> destruction that many people fear.
>>
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