It has a freewheel bmx type.
Dont trust what exactly?
Ignorance is not bliss, perhaps?
It's by far one of the strongest and longest lasting frames made. And if you some how manage to gouge the carbon badly enough that it concerns you it can be repaired.
It should be "Nostradumbass"
I think people are getting mad because you're posting your opinion on something you clearly know nothing about.
No one here is mad, they just think your an idiot.
To be fair to the guy, no-one to my knowledge has yet made a carbon off-road bicycle part that isn't susceptible to premature and catastrophic failure due to surface damage creating stress risers that rapidly propagate through the material. I'm well aware that these frames have an excellent reputation, but the poster whom you criticise made it quite clear he had no first hand experience of the frame in question, and was speaking based only on his experiences of carbon products thus far. Furthermore, you give examples of F1 cars and jet planes etc, which have little relevance here due to the budgets used to create these things.
FFS, did you read the thread??? There are 8-9 year old m7 and m8 frames still being ridden, hard.
Please don't let this forum turn into pinkbike, full of dumb ass one line comments that show no research or understanding and add nothing to the knowledge base.
hi, pot? this is kettle.
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yeah, but to be fair I don't think anybody's created a part (short of the avalanche mtn-8) that doesn't suffer from catastrophic failure under certain conditions.
Don't stress it NSM, the whole purpose of "freedom of speech" and the "marketplace of ideas" is that everyone, even the idiots, can speak their piece. This allows the rest of us to easliy identify the idiots and ignore anything they say in the future. Pit Steeler has done us a favour, now we know not to waste our energy reading what he posts.
thanks man. i was a bit concerned about the long stays & uber lack ha as well, though in practice, i've found a fairly wide range of geometries can be effective in a well-designed cohesive package. we'll see. right now it's puking snow in vancouver, so looks like the trails won't be clear for a while...
hahah!! That hilarious. Do a search on my name and i think you will find out exactly what i think about the sundays. Im used to wearing my flame suit around here
fair enough, I totally agree with that. I get so sick of the "my _____ is the offspring of god and lance armstrong, making it the best, lightest, and fastest, AND it only has one nut."hahah!! That hilarious. Do a search on my name and i think you will find out exactly what i think about the sundays. Im used to wearing my flame suit around here
My point was dumb one liner posts saying "its going to snap" are useless, a waste of electrons and belong on pinkbike.
what I have heard/know.
I'd be willing to bet that with an average downhill wheel you could save a half pound of unsprung weight by removing the derailleur and cassette.
