You can be sure bike was stripped of its grouppo and every other valuable part. And who is to say the marginal cost of manufacturing that reinforced resin frame was even 20% of a KoF frame anyway?
But, is the frame recyclable, or because of the resins, hazardous waste?
said Harry Travis Washington, DC USA
, stirred by:
Grant McLean <grant.mclean@sympatico.ca>'s message of:
Saturday 19 Jul 08 at 10:24 AM,
On: Re: [CR]Exploding bikes!
[echoed below, in part<=1]
-oOo-
>Paul,
>Fragile? Dude. He hit a pole straight-on at 50-60 km/h! The pole was
>bent back at almost 45 degrees.
>Where you think the energy of impact does?
>I once got knocked off my old Bianchi at about 15 km/h,
>and when I got up, the fork was bent back so far, the front tire hit
>the downtube.
>Modern racing bikes are far stronger for impact than vintage. The
>difference is they break instead of bend, since it makes no difference
>to the race result if you can't ride it home, it's trash.
>On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Dr. Paul Williams wrote:
>> Having just watched the end of today's T de F stage, I was
>> particularly
>> struck by the seeming fragility of CF frames after the spectacular
>> crash
>> of the Gerolsteiner(?) rider and the pictures of his bike flying
>> through
>> the air and breaking into two halves upon landing. It got me thinking
>> about past Tours (within the CR time frame) and whether any steel
>> frames
>> reacted the same way when crashed? I know forks broke, but did lugged
>> steel framesets break in half or fly apart at the seams like this? Was
>> it more a question of bent but not broken? I don't remember such
>> things
>> over the past 30 years of watching!
>>
>>
>> Paul B. Williams, BAH, MPhil, PhD
>> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
>> castell5@sympatico.ca
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