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The material of good bicycles was steel and the Linth weight tool was
the drill to produce drillium. http://www.velo-retro.com/peterjohnson.html Just the same, these bicycles were at least as durable as the ones sold now and the one in the picture is still working well after many thousand miles. Jobst Brandt |
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jim beam wrote: wrote: The material of good bicycles was steel and the Linth weight tool was the drill to produce drillium. there's no way that "drillium" was anywhere /near/ as fatigue resistant as the undrilled componentry. On the other hand, here is a drillium variant which I'm sure you could get sold on: http://tinyurl.com/27os5 http://tinyurl.com/9nz5r Note: these links come in different versions with alternate titles, the first being "Carbon Bicycle Frame Diary", the second "Why Carbon Bicycle Frames Absorb Vibration Better In Real World Use". The texts are the same in the two versions. n |
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George King writes:
The material of good bicycles was steel and the Linth weight tool was the drill to produce drillium. there's no way that "drillium" was anywhere /near/ as fatigue resistant as the undrilled componentry. On the other hand, here is a drillium variant which I'm sure you could get sold on: http://tinyurl.com/27os5 http://tinyurl.com/9nz5r Note: these links come in different versions with alternate titles, the first being "Carbon Bicycle Frame Diary", the second "Why Carbon Bicycle Frames Absorb Vibration Better In Real World Use". The texts are the same in the two versions. Looks great. I'm ready to try it but, you first! Jobst Brandt |
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The material of good bicycles was steel and the Linth weight tool was the drill to produce drillium. http://www.velo-retro.com/peterjohnson.html Just the same, these bicycles were at least as durable as the ones sold now and the one in the picture is still working well after many thousand miles. Jobst Brandt Nice sew-ups too. |
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41 says...
On the other hand, here is a drillium variant which I'm sure you could get sold on: http://tinyurl.com/27os5 http://tinyurl.com/9nz5r Note: these links come in different versions with alternate titles, the first being "Carbon Bicycle Frame Diary", the second "Why Carbon Bicycle Frames Absorb Vibration Better In Real World Use". The texts are the same in the two versions. Darwin still hard at work I see. |
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http://tinyurl.com/27os5
"My God, man. Drilling holes in his head isn't the answer!" Star Trek IV More seriously, that's about the scariest thing I've seen on the 'net. --Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReactionBicycles.com |
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wrote: George King writes: a drillium variant http://tinyurl.com/27os5 http://tinyurl.com/9nz5r Note: these links come in different versions with alte rnate titles, the first being "Carbon Bicycle Frame Diary", the second "Why Carbon Bicycle Frames Absorb Vibration Better In Real World Use". The texts are the same in the two versions. Looks great. I'm ready to try it but, you first! Oh no, after you! Maybe Peter Johnson could hold the drill. From the looks of that frame he is a real craftsman. Not to mention good with the drill too. But I think there are others here who could get sold on this technological development and who would be eager to get in line ahead of us. |
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