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What have you broken on your bike recently?
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I have been strongly considering getting a dirt bike for a couple years now. It’s looking more tempting now considering a new YZ starts at 7k. I could probably find a newish one for like 5? A new DH bike with usable parts is the same monies. My wife would probably require one also shortly after, and the kiddo…. Starting to feel slippery.I just quit and ride dirbikes now because I don't want to give money to anyone but GG.
I bought a basically unridden 2020 yz125x for 6k
come to the dark side
we have moar fun
Yep, cased pretty hard at silver mountain
Rode with wife today and saw this in the sunlight
Rode with wife today and saw this in the sunlight
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There you have it. It's a pretty well established Ridemonkey fact: crab0nz and sunlight don't go well.
You should know better.
Don't think sunlight did it in...thats a good ol fashioned drop to bad case. Stupid sunlight showed it they are brand new
Lmao I lost my common sense on pinkbike with those floating dot charts that cause anxiety
..lol
Hit hard enough it might taste like blueberry
Lol yeah sometimes things work out, Murphy feels bad and shows compassion
You sure it's a crack and not just the carbon underneath the clearcoat?
Looks like a wrinkle in the fabric, which may be a manufacturing defect, or not, depends in "allowables" it was designed around.
A few of my carbon bars look like that from where the final fabric layer ends. Or wrinkles. Tapping close to, and away from the crack should yield different tones if it is in fact a crack.
Yeah that's what it looks like to me also.
Positive, nail hooks you can feel it...i was chatting with @buckoW I triple checked ..it's a crack
Already ordered another set of carbon and will be adding the alloy version as well.
Buddy who does aviation design and molds said the same thing I'm thinking it's a fluke...1 in a million , I love the bars they do work for my wrists
we both would run them , just not ride DH huck style with my weight..but I do trust them...
Already ordered another set of carbon and will be adding the alloy version as well.
Buddy who does aviation design and molds said the same thing I'm thinking it's a fluke...1 in a million , I love the bars they do work for my wrists
we both would run them , just not ride DH huck style with my weight..but I do trust them...
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Already ordered (alloy and carbon bars) last night , and have plans for this one...
Going to do a cut away, making a towel holder out of it...already tore a shock apart and made a pen out of it
Made tools out of a destroyed charger damper...it's become assimilated into shop...
Have tool holders made out of bad shock stanchions .
Got a set of kashima fox 40 stanchions I'm figuring out what to do with, think it'll be drilled full of holes and hold t-handle Allen's and torx...
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I'd have expected a big guy like you to have found those things far too flexy anyway?
They scared me when we realised we could flex them before even fitting them to a(nother rider's) bike.
Gotta think positive Woo....lol ..(yes people i am aware this is a open ended comment for woo to be witty)
My wife's positive, she upped my life insurance policy recently...she's thinking ahead ..lol
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I put em on a bike I didn't think I'd hammer down on...and realistically with my weight I shouldn't have taken the HT there...I did look for cracks and other damage on frame.
Yeah you are 100% right I can grab bars and flex it , but for what I should keep it for it should be fine...I got alloys as well but my concern is with the ovalization of material they will fold..
1 is stronger 1 is harder both share the same crush zone, I can't say which is more prone to failure given the shape and stress risers...not even unforseen ones, just basic failure testing...
Have you seen who sells mtb parts? It's not your buddy who does real engineering for planes. He has his job because he majored in engineering, not "product blah blah blah"
there's thinking postively and then there's sprinting into a brick wall that you just sprinted into before and wondered why you did that, but then you get up and do it again
I'll just say what I say to all who think carbon bars give them something aluminum does not (beyond the feeling of living dangerously): "good luck"
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Are you not familiar with the Boeing 737 Max?
I died on one 5 years ago.Are you not familiar with the Boeing 737 Max?
I'm the ghost of poor execution.
And I'm here to talk to you about carbon handlebars sold by people who think this shit is awesome
Boeing Engineers: 346.
Bike industry carbon Engineers: 0.
Severe butt hurt does not count as a fatality.
Bike industry carbon Engineers: 0.
Severe butt hurt does not count as a fatality.
Nah it's usually more in the chest and arm region. The splintered surface will normally leave a really deep gouge across one's chest, sometimes requiring stitches. There's also usually a ton of bruising not caused directly by the carbon shards, but from the resulting crash.
Oh hell yes Woo . That was much better than a typical smart ass witt response I left open for you ..damn when I think I'm going to get a quick witt you go and make a point ..DAMMIT . Now I'm going to run 2 carbon bars per bike, I'll clamp em end to end at stem...
But in lieu of what you said about wall, I keep telling my wife I won't grow old, in going out head on into a brick wall 100mph naked and on fire...
But in lieu of what you said about wall, I keep telling my wife I won't grow old, in going out head on into a brick wall 100mph naked and on fire...
atta boy
at least have some fun with it
Just remember, keep buying bars made out of the only material that regularly fails catastrophically when clamped. It's not like lock on grips, brakes and a shifter count. The performance of a handlebar made out of that material literally transforms the entire bike compared to using a handlebar made out of aluminum (what we call the material of the poors). Live life to the fullest. No one ever had a bike that weighed and worked the exact same with an aluminum handlebar......just remember that.
better let her drive
30 years of riding mountainbikes, with others riding more aggressively and abusively than average users, yet not switching out parts every 5 minutes like spAnsrd racers, and watching people get fucked up from broken carbon bars over, and over, and over again.
more like a novel than a story really
I like stiff carbon frames. They ride differently and if done well, with a level of precision that takes a heavier aluminum frame to duplicate.
Carbon bars offer pretty much no performance advantage, but with all the corner cutting, new shit to market bs of this idiot dependent industry, and inherent downfalls of carbon....exacerbated by being literally the only carbon component on a modern mountainbike that receives clamping forces, by design. A force that specifically compromises cured carbon weaves.
I've cracked every carbon frame I've ever owned but one. And none of them made me lose control of the bike. A handlebar however.... You don't ride out of that.
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instead of yet another carbon bar y‘all should try some 12° aluminium bars!
