My vid on buying your first or 10th road bike. What to look for?
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Permalink Reply by Shav Bird on -
This video was good to see another persons different point of view. DR seems to have a lot of experience which I respect. His opinions seem to hold weight due to his experience. But at the end of the day, people are gonna do what they want to do.
I think multiple opinions need to be considered from a number of experienced riders to gain a better informed opinion of a final bike choice. But that is only the way I would do it.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Palfrey on -
if the wallet lets some ride on lightweights or super record cause they can and wanna stimulate the economy, so be it!
There you go guys, next time you want a new toy tell the minister of finance that it's for the greater good of all.
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Permalink Reply by Frank on
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Well, with that you would not be lying, buy the wife a new ring while you are at it!
Clive, we must ride together one day, it be a very entertaining ride, there seems nothing we agree on.
It be fun.
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Permalink Reply by Trevor Hill on -
After reading Sophia MacRae comments (I got a new commuter too :-). I feel she has hit the nail on the head regarding her new bike, and I quote in part....it's for sailing to work and uni and town and meetings and feeling gorgeous.
I hope everyone who buys a new bike, no matter what kind, feels this passion.
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Permalink Reply by Simon Lownsborough on -
Not so sure carbon is all that weak.
I've got a 14 year-old carbon Giant, rides like a dream, fast and tight. From what I have read, all materials can be made equally strong (steel, alloy, carbon fibre, wood). It's the stiffness and weight that varies, and fatigue fracturing.
There's a lot of development $ been invested in CF, and for frame manufacturers to use CF over other materials suggests that CF is a good proposition.
Anyway, the real point is to buy the bike that 'sings your song', because THAT is the bike you will ride as much as you can. Regardless of what it is made out of.
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Permalink Reply by Shav Bird on
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I was gonna say the same thing as you Frank. F1 use carbon for their componentry. So not all carbon is bad. It comes down to how the carbon is laid that will determine the strength and longevity under normal conditions. In a crash or accident, CF will be the real test.
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Permalink Reply by hozozco on -
Actually I think the fact that F1 uses carbon, whereas most cars do not perfectly justifies DRs video.
In F1 the saving of fractions of seconds is important and spare no expense.
With cars the expense is paramount and performance, though important, is always a compromise.
A F1 car is meticulously maintained and checked. A car needs to last the warranty period with all sorts of abuse.
Simon
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So a person in the cockpit of a F1 car doing 300km/h plus is at risk than?
Dropping a carbon shell off a 5 stores building and so on does not tell you anything?
Most modern planes now being designed and manufactured in carbon!
Plastic(aka carbon) is here to stay, like storage on the Cloud and so on, it's just the way it is!
There be another composite after carbon but for now, it's brilliant, not the be all and end all but it's frigging great and ride a good carbon bike and you be sold on it too!
Trust me, i am a builder!!!
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In 2004 we had most of the Mclarens team in my Bar, I spoke at length to their engineers and remember them saying to look out for what influence carbon will have!
How right he was, it's getting cheaper and better all the time!
They gave me a carbon tool box, it was paper thin and our guard stood on it and all it did was creak, he weighed 120kg.
Fantastic plastic!
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Permalink Reply by Rob (Chewbacca) on -
"fantastic plastic" back in the 70s was a surf board......fibre glass revolutionized the surf industry much like carbon fibre has done for cycling....
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