To clarify my use of the word catastrophic, irreparable insurmountable damage to the frame not a rider.
Chris Plunkett Chicago, Illinois USA
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>From: westown@earthlink.net
>Sent: May 30, 2008 4:08 PM
>To: jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Cc: theej@mchsi.com
>Subject: re; pre 1983 carbon tubed frames
>
>Our esteemed colleague in Streator IL has a point.
>Like the Exxon Graftek frames, early carbon
>suffered catastrophic failures,
>thus his plastic bike comment.
>My brother had a failed Graftek hanging
>in his shop, snapped like a twig.
>It is written that the Exxon Graftek
>was the first carbon-tubed metal lugged frame.
>Reference, William Hudson.
>They did however come out before 1983
>Langley's site says 1975.
>
>Chris Plunkett
>Chicago, Illinois USA