What a surprise; hitting bicycle components with a hammer ruins them 
Just what is the point of any of these videos apart from showing everyone that there are some people out there with more money and time on their hands than is good for them?
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Taking a hammer to a carbon frame
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Posted 2 years ago #
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When it does fail however it's often catastrophic
Exactly like most aluminium components then...
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I am never buying an aluminium frame ever. He hardly touched it!
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Exactly like most aluminium components then...
ooh, I dunno, I've had a couple of cracked alu frames that stayed together long enough to get home & - in 1 case - was OK for another ride
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Which I've seen exactly the same for carbon... (thinking of an OCLV which was ridden into a tree
and an old GT STS which broke at the BB, both of which were ridden home).
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Would like to see the two forks off the niner video then put through stress loading test after hitting them with the hammer thats the only thing that would prove which is strongest rather that just whats visible....
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I had a Diamond Back WCF 4.0 from 1996, Woven CF tubes bonded to Chromoly lugs, the downtube/headtune bond broke, but I didn't realise for a year or two, rode it effectively without a down tube without any problems.
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errr ... the frames don't have bottom brackets! - just held together with a toptube hence pulling it apart.
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"ah but when it fails its catstrophic"
to be fair if i do something which results in hitting my bike hard enough to cause a catastrophic failure i think im probably pretty **** anyway
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this reminds me of stupid Gadget Show 'tests' where they fill plasma tellies full of water to see which is best, or on Top Gear where they drop caravans onto cars to see which conducts electic best, or something.
a bit crap and pointless in other words.
don't **** your bike with a hammer kids.Posted 2 years ago # -
Both of those video tests are utterly pointless - neither test is controlled, neither test shows *internal* damage to the carbon that can massively weaken CF without any apparent visible damage and even the niner demo says you'd not want to ride it after that test, so while he points out it looks fine, it's still FUBAR.
Utterly pointless.
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At least he can recycle the Aluminium one.....
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