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no just look at the guide. its upside down. still right side drive thereAnyone else notice that they're set up for LSD, left side drive?
Your running the XC version? Not the smartest ID ever...hey, i run monkey like xc bars on my dh bike
most spindles are steel.The carbon spindle can be made to save a significant amount of weight while actually being stronger/stiffer than AL (mostly because of the twisting forces involved).
yea, but i am 120 lbs, dont do gnar gnar hucks to flat. not that i am trying to save weight, it just that my lbs only had that at the time.Your running the XC version? Not the smartest ID ever...
They have a special DH version you know.
i don't think the pervasive stories of snapping bars are a good indication of reality. its a 'new' material under the microscope. rumor propigation is a wierd thing - a limited few break, and they're quickly all percieved as flawed (not unlike the recent broken boxxer wc thread). i've seen lots of broken aluminum bars, and no one seems to go on about the lifespan limiting fatigue issues of that material. i have personally seen one carbon bar snap (a 1st gen easton monkeylite dh - about 5 years ago), it was really light & thin for a dh bar, and the breakage looked like it was propigated by a stress riser caused by a sharp / tight lever. i ran the same bar for a season of dh & freehucking (which was the fashion back in the day) without a problem. i'm sure the current crop of dh bars are much burlier.I have yet to see a posted pic of snapped carbon bars.
I'm a solid year + on my FSA K force bars @ 190lbs and they have serious OTB damage in the bends.
very well said.i rode some proto carbon cranks on my nomad for a long time. i rode the **** out of them, like i would my dh bike. they held up to rock bashing way better than most people think. I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Composite materials are incredible when designed and manufactured by intelligent people. FEA programs have gone a long way in being able to analyze laminates, and this has allowed designers to be more efficient with their layups. Composite materials just aren't like steel, where any hack can build something with it and it'd be fine. Anisotropic materials are inherently more difficult to design with. You actually have to know what you're doing.
Carbon belongs on road bikes.
yeah it looks bling as hell too.The use of composite materials is not just for weight savings. Man, some people just don't get it.
yea im not to into the properties of composite materials. what else are these materials good for other then looking good and breaking, while saving a few ounces of weightThe use of composite materials is not just for weight savings. Man, some people just don't get it.
I'm pretty sure the spindle is not carbon. What you are seeing in the cut-away pic is the BB cup spacer.most spindles are steel.
stiffer, stronger. you can put the material in the direction of the loading. this allows you to fine tune the stiffness and strength in any direction you want, usually the load path. also, you can layup the laminate such that under certain thermal loading it can bend in a pre-determined direction. the coolest thing I've ever made was a tensile test specimen with a negative poisson's ratio. when you pulled on it axially, instead of getting skinny in the transverse direction, it got fatter. metals can't do that sh1t. only crazy materials. crazy cool materials. fvck metalyea im not to into the properties of composite materials. what else are these materials good for other then looking good and breaking, while saving a few ounces of weight