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"Dion Dock" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> There is also catastrophic failure. Drop a wrench on an aluminum tube and
> see what happens. Now repeat the test on steel, titanium and carbon. Which
> one shows a dent? How will that dent alter the fatigue tests?
>
> It's one thing to place a pristine frame on a machine and bend it back and
> forth. It's something else to get the chain wedged in the stay before doing
> the test.
>
> -Dion
Are Al frames really that sensitive to corruption of the frame
integrity? Surely not, since mtn bikes get beat up all the time with
crashes. Bike makers would go back to steel instead of dealing with
warranty replacements.
Tai
> There is also catastrophic failure. Drop a wrench on an aluminum tube and
> see what happens. Now repeat the test on steel, titanium and carbon. Which
> one shows a dent? How will that dent alter the fatigue tests?
>
> It's one thing to place a pristine frame on a machine and bend it back and
> forth. It's something else to get the chain wedged in the stay before doing
> the test.
>
> -Dion
Are Al frames really that sensitive to corruption of the frame
integrity? Surely not, since mtn bikes get beat up all the time with
crashes. Bike makers would go back to steel instead of dealing with
warranty replacements.
Tai