This Carbon thing is getting out of hand
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You mean protectors or frames?
That makes me a sad panda
I am also on the sickest bike ever boat.
Had a Go-Ride DTG that traversed many bikes. Kept it off my vpfree due to the 120g weight penealty( Derp ) - and that sucker has nasty dents to the DT in the 8" area above BB.You mean protectors or frames?
Carbon or Alu.. there is a beating to be had! Many shale strikes against frame at Plattekill will soon prove this material right or wrong.
MASSIVE shale strikes, anyone thats ridden Platty hard knows what I'm sayin! (Not that theres not plenty of evil gnar out there, just sayin'!!)
i will say that if the bike survives a season at platty and whiteface, it'll survive anywhere. No place has put nearly the beating on my bikes that those two have. Dents and scratches all over my brooklyn and my sunday...if the carbon survives repeated shale slams just above the BB, it'll be fine for just about anything else.
Jury might be out on carbon, but I think it still looks great!
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Very nice, I like!!
HOLY FUCCCCCK
3000euros for carbon frame ? 
Not cheap.
Not cheap.
That's how all moulds for carbon are made.HOLY FUCCCCCK
You should see what is done when you are machining molds for a race car chassis.
hot!
and not proven, yet3000euros for carbon frame ?
You mean the price or quality? Because their site states 2999eur for carbon ver.
He means its a new product with no reviews and we dont even see them giving one to some hack for testing
But they are offering a life time warranty for original buyer which is fairly confident.
Well I am not sure of their process to get to production. But they would have to be crazy to release a bike with lifetime warranty and at that RRP without having first had a few bikes out for testing perhaps sold at a discounted RRP or to mates? AKA Banshee Legend Mk1.
They put a nice top weave layer on the layup just for looks right?
Pretty stunning.
Interesting how the rear triangle bolts together as opposed to being a welded assembly.
Pretty stunning.
Interesting how the rear triangle bolts together as opposed to being a welded assembly.
I've ued this example before and I'm going to do it again. Anyone who doubts carbon fiber, jump on a plane and fly out to South Africa. I'll introduce you to a guy who has been riding Greg Minnaar's old Orange 222 that he rode during the 2001 season. The forks are literally wrecked, the wear and tear has relegated them to a scrap heap. They have a couple deep scratches on the stantions and the frame looks like its been taken to with a hammer and has a couple raw welds that have been necessary to keep the bike from cracking up completely. A good 10 years riding a bike does that but i only mention it to give you an idea of the beating the bike has taken during its life. The one thing that you would all have expected to fail is still holding its head up high and taking all the punishment thrown at it. The original Easton carbon bars on the bike are chipped and scratched beyond what is right during their trip to hell and back and guess what? They're still going strong when almost everything else it dead. After seeing them survive all that they have and still not fail, I trust carbon and so should you!
off topic,.,.,., can you please point me to one of your posts that you didnt name drop minnaar?
How is it off topic? It relates to the discussion on the appropriateness of carbon for downhill bikes that has dominated much of this thread.
And even if your dig did have a solid, factual grounding, how would that affect the validity of my opinion? Yes, I'm a Minnaar fanboy. But that has absolutely no relevance to the topic at hand other than the fact that they both relate to downhill. Hypocritical much? Besides, rather a fanboy than a hater, don't you think?
whoa, thats slick looking!
looks well thought out if nothing else. integrated fender is a nice touch.
might want to design it around a shock that is still available
Those look awesome. The DH version has the same suspension set up as the now defunct PDC. If they plan on selling it in Europe and the U.S. they will have to make a couple minor changes as I am pretty certain that Trek (or perhaps Brad Flynn) have a patent on that linkage set up.
LOL.. you contradict yourself here?
First you say it is NOT off topic:
First you say it is NOT off topic:
Then you say is IS off-topic:
Awesome tiny full-carbon rig with high pivot idler setup
that little mother****er needs like 100mm crank arms, pedal strikes like a mother****er.