Carbon retro?

[Canuk]

'Graceful Failure ', that seems to be the overriding verdict of the science bods on carbon degradation. Steel and aluminium (in particular) have very isolated failure zones, so when they fail, they fail catastrophically.

My Vitus 9 tube carbon is a trooper. I expect it to outlive me (and perhaps) my sons. Nothing I can do to it seems to bother it one iota. Chapeau to the manufacturer, you have made a good piece of kit, and it seems to be indestructible!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

'Graceful Failure ', that seems to be the overriding verdict of the science bods on carbon degradation. Steel and aluminium (in particular) have very isolated failure zones, so when they fail, they fail catastrophically.

My Vitus 9 tube carbon is a trooper. I expect it to outlive me (and perhaps) my sons. Nothing I can do to it seems to bother it one iota. Chapeau to the manufacturer, you have made a good piece of kit, and it seems to be indestructible!

Is that the same Vitus you said Kelly had to keep changing because it couldn't cope with hard usage?

 

[pigman]

When you are ill do you listen to the man in the pub whose uncle smoked 50 per day and lived to be 90 or maybe do a deal with some guy selling snake oil or do you visit a scientist with lots of education and fancy machines (doctor)? Just asking out of interest

 

[Canuk]

Is that the same Vitus you said Kelly had to keep changing because it couldn't cope with hard usage?

My New Year's resolution is to put you on permanent 'ignore'.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

My New Year's resolution is to put you on permanent 'ignore'.

Don't like being called out on the rubbish you spout? Stay quiet or provide facts. Feel free to ignore me

 

[dorset boy]

Starting to make me paranoid about the forks on my 1999 Pinarello

 

[Canuk]

Don't like being called out on the rubbish you spout? Stay quiet or provide facts. Feel free to ignore me

It's a shame you're such a nasty pedant. If you took the time to read the article from Vitus, he rode both 979 alloy and 9 tube carbons. Retired lots of both. You don't bother me in the slightest. It's a shame. I could get you a Leboncoin account (which you keep banging on about) tomorrow. Heck I could even put you in touch with French collectors who could get you a REAL french randonneur for a third of the price you see on eBay. I could even ship it to you, to your doorstep. For free, courtesy of Airbus.

But you're onto plums with me my friend.

Permanently.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I'd trust Merckx over just about anyone to come up with top end steel

In terms of the bikes produced with his name on them, or the alloy itself?

 

[non-fixie]

Thanks. I kinda sorta follow GCN, but apparently I've missed this one. Very informative.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Thanks. I kinda sorta follow GCN, but apparently I've missed this one. Very informative.

Jo and I often have a good laugh at some of the stuff they get up to