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Ron Ruff
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Just when I thought that carbon was dominating the middle to upper end
frame market... and would for the forseable future:
"The march of carbon seems to have slowed down in the world of
professional frames with only Rabobank [Colnago], Quickstep [Time],
T-Mobile [Giant] and Credit Agricole [Look] of the ten teams we saw
having all their riders on carbon mounts.
Lotto [Eddy Merckx] and F de J [Lapierre] had both carbon and aluminium
frames on display, all the rest were on good-old aluminium with carbon
forks; as were AG2R but they had a number of fresh out of the box
titanium/carbon-yoked and -forked frames among their 'off the
shelf' Decathlon team bikes. At Het Volk last year one or two of
these were seen in the AG2R pits but disappeared after that."
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=3816
It's surprising that with carbon's fabled vibration damping abilities,
they are not using carbon frames... especially on cobbled roads. What
could the reason be... lack of durability? Not that I believe in the
damping... but since the sponsors are marketing expensive carbon
frames, you'd think they'd all be riding them unless there was a good
reason not to.
frame market... and would for the forseable future:
"The march of carbon seems to have slowed down in the world of
professional frames with only Rabobank [Colnago], Quickstep [Time],
T-Mobile [Giant] and Credit Agricole [Look] of the ten teams we saw
having all their riders on carbon mounts.
Lotto [Eddy Merckx] and F de J [Lapierre] had both carbon and aluminium
frames on display, all the rest were on good-old aluminium with carbon
forks; as were AG2R but they had a number of fresh out of the box
titanium/carbon-yoked and -forked frames among their 'off the
shelf' Decathlon team bikes. At Het Volk last year one or two of
these were seen in the AG2R pits but disappeared after that."
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=3816
It's surprising that with carbon's fabled vibration damping abilities,
they are not using carbon frames... especially on cobbled roads. What
could the reason be... lack of durability? Not that I believe in the
damping... but since the sponsors are marketing expensive carbon
frames, you'd think they'd all be riding them unless there was a good
reason not to.