Carbon vs. Aluminum

[irishpitbull]

People still ride AL bikes? Mind=blown.

Ummm... yeah. Like all of us who don't have a two grand lying around to spend on a frame.

My 11 stumpjumper carbon HT was 2300 complete. Your number is bit high.

[mtbfree]

People still ride AL bikes? Mind=blown.

Ummm... yeah. Like all of us who don't have a two grand lying around to spend on a frame.

My 11 stumpjumper carbon HT was 2300 complete. Your number is bit high.

Ok, how about this... Like all of us who don't have two grand lying around to spend on a frame that we actually want to ride. If I buy a carbon frame, it's not going to be a hard-tail XC bike, because that's not my dream bike. And if I'm going to spend more than $2000 on a build (which is more than I've ever spent on a bike build), it's going to be my dream bike when it's done. To stick with the Santa Cruz theme here, it will be something like a carbon Nomad: MSRP = $2699, or a Blur LT: MSRP = $2576. And yes, those prices are for the frame and rear shock only.

[i69whitey]

People still ride AL bikes? Mind=blown.

full-rigid, all-steel, canti-braked, 26er, under $100 total build...

...on your left


although, i think the carbon felt 29er i demoed @ stony made me faster, just not sure if it was $5000 faster

[nailgunn]

full-rigid, all-steel, canti-braked, 26er, under $100 total build...

...on your left

Still looking for his 8 speed master link on the trail
You are the reason why i have one in my pack now.

[utabintarbo]

full-rigid, all-steel, canti-braked, 26er, under $100 total build...

...on your left

Still looking for his 8 speed master link on the trail
You are the reason why i have one in my pack now.

Just to show him, then ride off singing "neener neener". Yes, I like that!

[irishpitbull]

People still ride AL bikes? Mind=blown.

full-rigid, all-steel, canti-braked, 26er, under $100 total build...

...on your left


although, i think the carbon felt 29er i demoed @ stony made me faster, just not sure if it was $5000 faster

I would love to see that happen.

On a serious note, carbon is where it's at not only weight but vibration purposes.

[Laser4G63]

I guess it's a good thing I won't be doing any of that to my frame. I'll stick to riding it instead.

[cramer]

Nice video. Back in the real world, I know someone that broke a carbon frame when the wind blew it over and it landed on something which poked a whole straight through the frame.

[Di_bear]

People still ride AL bikes? Mind=blown.

full-rigid, all-steel, canti-braked, 26er, under $100 total build...

...on your left


although, i think the carbon felt 29er i demoed @ stony made me faster, just not sure if it was $5000 faster

I believe I caught you drooling over my aluminum bike a couple of times. In fact, didn't you threaten to steal it? ...speaking of "steel."

[mtbfree]

Nice video. Back in the real world, I know someone that broke a carbon frame when the wind blew it over and it landed on something which poked a whole straight through the frame.

Could we get some more info? Brand? Production year? Proof? You know what they say... Pics or it didn't happen. I know a guy who knows a guy whose sister's brother's fiance's cousin died because his carbon frame spontaneously combusted when a small pebble flew up off his front tire and hit the down-tube

[cramer]

Nice video. Back in the real world, I know someone that broke a carbon frame when the wind blew it over and it landed on something which poked a whole straight through the frame.

Could we get some more info? Brand? Production year? Proof? You know what they say... Pics or it didn't happen. I know a guy who knows a guy whose sister's brother's fiance's cousin died because his carbon frame spontaneously combusted when a small pebble flew up off his front tire and hit the down-tube

Yeah, you caught me, I just made it up.

Cannondale (I think)
1.5 or 2.5 years ago at a Kiss Cross Halloween cross race
Bike owner worked at Ada Bike
I saw some "before" pictures at Jack Kunnen's web site. The owner had attached a cardboard horse head to the front of his bike as part of his costume of being a cowboy. That is what caught the wind that blew it over.... or I just made the whole story up.

[iamkickstand]

oh, it was a crackenfale.....

I once met a woman, who was riding a tandem bike with her husband, and it was part carbon fiber, and it failed...and I did see it with my own eyes.

[cramer]

I once rode this crazy contraption until the frame broke in less than a month of riding....

[b_b]

I once rode this crazy contraption until the frame broke in less than a month of riding....

Oh my do you also drive an Aztec? Call me crazy, but I'm questioning the engineering and not necessarily the material.

[iamkickstand]

I once rode this crazy contraption until the frame broke in less than a month of riding....

Oh my do you also drive an Aztec? Call me crazy, but I'm questioning the engineering and not necessarily the material.

it's a jamis, I thought those came pre-cracked