On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 2:54:58 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-08-06 07:55, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 10:45:23 AM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-08-05 16:28, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 6:22:32 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-08-05 15:10, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 4:55:14 PM UTC-4, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-08-05 13:36, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 1:03:30 PM UTC-7, jbeattie
wrote:
Yes and no. I've broken steel pedal spindles
catastrophically. Spokes go all at once. Steel
fasteners snap -- axles, too. Lots of steel things will
snap, including bars after enough high energy fatigue
cycles.
-- Jay Beattie.
Cast steel will fail suddenly but with any kind of pipe
structure that's rare.
I broke a Look steel pedal spindle on a couple of
occasions. Had steel saddle rails break off and steel
spokes break in one swell foop. I have seen steel bicycle
frames fail suddenly and steel bars suddenly bend upon
hitting a pothole.
A pothole can be like an accident, like hitting an object.
Nothing is permanent in this world so I got used to it.
However, one should seek the more permanent stuff versus
the less than permanent stuff. It's like with cars.
Japanese ones are among the best but even they break down.
My wife's Toyota developed a steering rack leak afer 23
years. Unbelievable. Only 23 years. $940 later it's all
fixed. At least it didn't fail on the road, just very
gradually. My Mitsubishi is 22 years and, nada. Not even a
dome light has had the audacity to burn out. I sure wish
bicycle manufacturers would learn about that level of
quality.
-- Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Maybe you should use the tires and other components these
guys use?
Well, I do have an MTB steel handlebar on the road bike now.
Also MTB pedals (for years).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_IFoSKTl1Y
I'm sure the trails in your area are not as knarly as
whatthese guys are riding over.
That's steep but not gnarly at all. Gnarly to me means full of
ruts, big rocks and stuff. Things where you can get really hurt
in a crash. Here is one of our trails and that is gnarly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38JzV-ueXI
People have died on that one. Went off the cliff edge which
doesn't look dangerous but the grease brush doesn't hold
anyhting and afterwards it's an almost vertical fall (onto
rocks).
-- Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Did you watch the ENTIRE video?
Yes.
-- Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Well then you must have seen them riding over rock strewn sections of
trails, jumping over some sections and landing on rocks and doing all
that whilst riding a high rate of speed. Looking at the two videos
your clip does NOT compare at all to the route those guys took in the
video I posted the link to.
Here we disagree.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Try watching this one. It's the same race. 4:32, 5:30, 5:54, 6:10+, 7:00, 7:28, 9:46+, 10:10, 11:05, 11:22, 13:20, 13:38+, 13:55, 19:15 - 19:25+, and so on. Plus they're riding that course at speed not just picking their way through it.
I wonder how the tires and the rest of the bikes make it through such a punishing course.
Cheers