I laugh at that article because every thing he said about carbon fiber can be said of steel. And the reason his precious Ti frame came away from that T-bone is because of the carbon components and his unmentioned, but you-know-it-was-demolished front wheel absorbing energy and/or the extreme luck of that particular crash.
This one was at 'about' 20 MPH and wasted wheel, frame and fork. Carbon, Ti, aluminum, steel or any combination of those materials and the result would have been the same. A full garbage can. Yeah, that's me in 1985 with a year old SL Pinarello Treviso ready to be made into a lamp. I didn't even dent the Buick that made a fast left in front of me.
Before my run of 'death bike' luck was over with Pinarello, I wasted three of that model, 2 red ones and that blue one.
I also had a steel aero fork with Columbus lags catastrophically fail. The left blade collapsed just below the crown with unseen damage from a prior fast stop into a mutt. 3 stitches to the eyebrow and a pair of $200 prescription sunglasses trashed.
Like I said, all of it fails and when you ride it fast enough and far enough it will happen sooner rather than later.
Frankly, we are ALL lucky to still be wasting oxygen after what we've been through, no?
This one was at 'about' 20 MPH and wasted wheel, frame and fork. Carbon, Ti, aluminum, steel or any combination of those materials and the result would have been the same. A full garbage can. Yeah, that's me in 1985 with a year old SL Pinarello Treviso ready to be made into a lamp. I didn't even dent the Buick that made a fast left in front of me.
Before my run of 'death bike' luck was over with Pinarello, I wasted three of that model, 2 red ones and that blue one.
I also had a steel aero fork with Columbus lags catastrophically fail. The left blade collapsed just below the crown with unseen damage from a prior fast stop into a mutt. 3 stitches to the eyebrow and a pair of $200 prescription sunglasses trashed.
Like I said, all of it fails and when you ride it fast enough and far enough it will happen sooner rather than later.
Frankly, we are ALL lucky to still be wasting oxygen after what we've been through, no?