>Carbon fiber reinforced plastics are only the latest expression of "innovation" that has caused much harm from injuries when steerer tubes, fork blades and frames have >snapped under normal and/or readily foreseeable less-than-normal situations.
I cannot see myself ever wanting anything other than an all steel bike, and I have never once worn (and doubtful never will) form fitting cycle shorts or cycle only shoes. Must say though that I am actually intrigued with what Argonaut is doing with CF sheet tubings. For some reason I thought CF could only be made in an injection molding type process. Argonaut's process video really opened my eyes to the possibility of making micro adjustments to tube diameter allowing a level of custom design impossible with steel. May take a generation before there is enough data to match the technology to users, but it seems a worthwhile pursuit to me. >CNC milled parts such as stems and cranks which had an unacceptably high failure rate would be yet another; some of those are still with us today because the people >manufacturing those products too often fail to understand metallurgy and metal fabrication adequately. You do not name brands, but my take away from the remark is based on my and a lot of other people's experience, the folks at Paul and White must understand metallurgy and metal fabrication as their cranks and now with Paul seat posts are very durable with low fail rates. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
