GT Fury catastrophic failure
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I heard on the BikeMag podcast that this was a specially lightened frame for World Champs, not a production frame. This is why you didn't see the Athertons on their Worlds bikes at Hafjell. One and done. My guess is we won't be seeing the Atherton Worlds bikes on eBay like last year.
Its aluminum
I think Lorenzo stated that on his fb but doesn't the frame have the same coulour sheme as one of the production models? Why make a prototype with special light tubing and then not giving it a special colour design?
word is the frame was dented on the downtube while being shipped to the race and he choose to take a chance and ride it for the race
Remember the original Fury wasn't particularly light but was crazy strong, made of thick carbon? With the new model GT's line is they stuck with alloy cuz they couldn't make it any lighter with carbon (that's probably marketing speak for, "We don't have a carbon model ready yet but will in the future, remember what SC said about carbon swingarms when they released the V10.4?). Well, maybe making a carbon weight alloy bike isn't as safe as making an alloy weight carbon bike. Remember a couple years ago when people were scared of carbon? Now I fully trust carbon but suspect any competitive weight alloy frame.
P.S. In that TeamRobot article he mentions a Pinkbike feature showing lots of popular vrames with the headtube ripped off. I can't find it, anyone got a link.
P.S. In that TeamRobot article he mentions a Pinkbike feature showing lots of popular vrames with the headtube ripped off. I can't find it, anyone got a link.
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I don't think that frame was going to last through that run. That case didn't look that bad to me.
40-50ft at world cup pace to 50-50ing the knuckle isnt rough???? **** man, where do you ride?
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well he wasn't the only one: http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/showpost.php?p=10944511&postcount=270
I call horsesh!t on that claim.
I highly doubt GT will be making a special one-off for a - let's face it - no name rider.
Seriously?
Quite
If you consider Lorenzo Suding a no-name rider then you aren't a very astute fan of WC racing. He's pretty consistently in the top 20 and I'd wager that's far better than most of the riders in your national series - unless your a Brit of course
Pretty sure they did not say that. I think the message was they made it in alu first to get the bike the way they want and then a carbon version later or something a long the line.
I don't dispute his abilities, I just don't see GT making a one-off for a top 20 ish rider, for a race where only the top spot matters.If you consider Lorenzo Suding a no-name rider then you aren't a very astute fan of WC racing. He's pretty consistently in the top 20 and I'd wager that's far better than most of the riders in your national series - unless your a Brit of course
Doh!"you're" ffs. F**king colonies
Horizontal distance isn't really a factor in how much force the frame saw, the majority of the force comes from amount of vertical drop. And if that was WC pace, he needed to go faster...
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What about the yaw?? Don't forget the yaw!Horizontal distance isn't really a factor in how much force the frame saw, the majority of the force comes from amount of vertical drop. And if that was WC pace, he needed to go faster...