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Carbon vs. Aluminum vs. Titanium
02/09/10
Here’s a propaganda video released by Lightspeed that doesn’t really mean anything.
While it’s true that crabon and aluminum crush and deform when under this kind of loading, consider that he’s sampling these materials out of context with the shapes’ design direction. These tubes, be they seat or down tubes, are intended to carry loads in the longiitudinal direction, to be used as compression members in the structural frame. They are NOT intended to resist lateral loads like this video, whereas titanium is rigid enough to do so. Anyway, it’s just fun to see bike parts get smashed and not be ON them.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 682291899# via Milano Street
MIlano Street have a fetish about destroyed bike parts and various component fails, accident or ride stress or whatever. Such as this:
I’ve witnessed such damage, as has Lung, when Team Lope member Muadib got doored in Sausalito. His front wheel remained true, but the front crabon forks sheared apart, being at an angle relative to the impact.
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