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    2011 World Championships: Champery

    It's more the gradient of that course than the mud and switchbacks that give the light guys an advantage there. It is pretty ridiculous. If you've not been there it's not so easy to comprehend how big that gradient is. Even Freecasters excellent footage cannot fully portray it. Danny Hart...
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    2011 World Championships: Champery

    Respect to the kid riding in the headcam vid. And anyone who can ride it fast really. I tried to ride that course last year. I failed. I think the odds are for Gwin all things considered. I'm still sceptical Hill will be up to World Champ winning fitness even though it's a course for him. So...
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    Carbon V10

    Ok, cheers. F1 Shut down ended Monday :thumb:
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    Carbon V10

    For some reason the Vital thing won't play on my work PC. Does it say how the rear triangle is made?
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    Carbon V10

    More of a question to Scott@SCB really: Are those new carbon rear ends short fibre injection moulded, like the top links are? Or conventional hand lay up? Fully sick bike by the way!!
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    "Looks Flexy"...

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    This Carbon thing is getting out of hand

    You rang m'lord? Apologies for lateness I've been kinds busy. As I still am. Will chime in if needed later.... when I get the time. In the mean time I will say carbon DH frames are the future, the past (Lahar) and the present (Fury, V10c). PEEK and other thermoplastic resin matrix...
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    carbon crank for DH?

    Never ass|u|me. You get me so wrong. Again. How many times do I have to explain myself to you, you numpty? That picture was just to wind you up... Looks like it worked ;) I'm far from an anti carbon troll. I'm probably more pro carbon that most other DHers, after all I deliberately...
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    carbon crank for DH?

    Really?
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    Dark cycles Scarab Good or bad?

    Na, a 9" shock will not fit. If anything I'd go shorter than 8.75" to maybe a 8.5". This would at least slacken it out and lower the BB a bit but also increase the static chainstay length a tad. Best stick to 8.75" IMO.
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    True, which is why I won't ride any Aluminium bike anymore. But like I said before Alloy bars are a far better choice due to their response to the stress concentrations which are inherently part of a handlebars working life.
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    norbar = fail. I'm not an anti carbon internet superhero you bellend. I'm an anti carbon DH handlebar Formula 1 Composites R&D Engineer. All carbon bars will always seem fine, no probs.... until they fail. Suddenly. Without warning.
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    You need to be very careful with carbon. You can’t just say “it’s made of carbon… F1 cars and jet fighters are made of carbon too… it must be good”… Just doesn’t happen like that. There are a HUGE amount of variables in carbon structures, from...
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    But still - completely different structures doing completely different things. With carbon, huge and torsional forces are easy to cope with. Stress concetrations are not.
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    You say that but the 'suspension' failure i believe you're referring to was actually a complete failure of the metal uprights - a pure case of poor design. And no (as you know), I don't work for STR. ;)
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    *laughs* Ha Ha. Unidirectional carbon is by far the most fragile type of carbon composite there is. And mating aluminium to carbon is another massive can of worms.... A decent shot peened aluminium bar is far more durable than carbon. Aluminium will yield locally around the stress risers of...
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    They are a completely different components designed to do completely different things. F1 suspension does not have a load of sharp edged components bolted to it at varying degrees of monkey tightened torques and then loaded in bending with dirt and grit and crash scrapes all over them. F1...
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    Flat bar = fail 740mm = fail Carbon handlebars for DH = FAIL! And I don't want get into an argument about why, they just are. Handlebars are the very very very last component on a DH bike that should be carbon. Actually scratch that, handlebars on a DH bike should never be carbon. No matter...
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    Taipei Cycle Show 2011

    = FAIL On every level.
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    Dark cycles Scarab Good or bad?

    Ok buddy, no worries, just let me know when you know.
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