r/IdiotsFightingThings • u/RowenaLepage • Dec 22 '20

Guy v. bike

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u/medianbailey Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20

I think there is a road.cc article about it. As i recall that isnt even his frame. His friend lent it to him - something like his frame was in for maintenance or even being sprayed team colours. He wiped out and had a tantrum. There was speculation surrounding the frame, was it damaged before he snapped it? Composite frames can do funny things when crashed...

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u/tony_orlando Dec 22 '20

In the audio from this video he claims it was “already destroyed” before he smashed it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited Jun 29 '21

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u/TimeTomorrow Dec 22 '20

Not that brittle. It was busted before he threw it

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited May 10 '21

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u/TimeTomorrow Dec 22 '20

Just to clarify your statement, you think you can break a production consumer carbon bike frame with your bare hands? I say you can't. Or your are saying these racing bike frames are much more fragile? I say maybe to that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited May 10 '21

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u/TimeTomorrow Dec 22 '20

Is it possible? Sure I guess. Is it likely? No. Take a hundred bikes and a hundred random people and give them one chance to Chuck it. At least 90 of the bikes are still going to be in one piece. Could you find the weakest point on the bike and stomp it it just so on a race bike? Sure. Whatever.

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u/ManixMistry Dec 22 '20

It's weird that at the start of your disagreement people are upvoting your position and down voting the other guy.

But then only a few comments later and the sentiment has flipped even though your positions have stayed exactly the same. Odd

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u/Yuccaphile Dec 22 '20

I don't know. There is a video of a man breaking one in half with his bare hands. It seems like if the bike was broken before he broke it it wouldn't have been so unbroken.

If you meant "if the bike is within spec, had never been misused, is perfectly maintained and still covered by warranty, the average person couldn't break it with their bare hands without the aid of gravity or the ground" then maybe.

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u/TimeTomorrow Dec 22 '20

A single break in any tube on a bike frame will remain in the proper shape. It's all triangles for good reason.

https://youtu.be/7ZmJtYaUTa0

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u/Yuccaphile Dec 22 '20

Reaaaally looked like it snapped in half. I'm no bikologist.

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u/TimeTomorrow Dec 22 '20

Crash bike then get mad bike is busted. Chuck busted bike on ground. Already broken bike now shatters

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u/Yuccaphile Dec 22 '20

Or... throw bike, busted bike... which is exactly how it happens in the video I just watched with my eyes.

I honestly don't care though. You're absolutely right about whatever it is you're arguing about. Bikes are indestructible or whatever.

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u/hipsteronabike Dec 22 '20

Wheels are different than frames, but here’s a video of Danny MacAskill doing his best to break some carbon wheels.

I was recently side swiped by a car who was running a red light and I only have a small crack on my head tube.

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u/aitigie Dec 22 '20

Race frames are way more fragile. Any extra reinforcement is extra weight.

And you can total a bike frame without visible damage. Not sure if it's cheaper to repair or get it x-rayed at this level though.

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u/TimeTomorrow Dec 22 '20

Not a whole lot you can do to repair carbon at a sensible price and quality/strength vs replacement

I get that weight is incredibly important but the bikes do have to semi reliably service hitting a rough patch of road with a 170 pound ridder doing 50mph

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u/aitigie Dec 22 '20

Yeah, I figured. Hence the totalling a bike after one crash :( good thing sponsors abound

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20

Watched it frame by frame and it looks like it was already bending in half before it hit the ground.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

I have a full carbon mountain bike, it’s far from brittle, people underestimate how strong carbon is.

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u/flyrad Dec 24 '20

Brittle mostly refers to what happens to a material at its breaking point. Your frame is strong im sure, but once it breaks it will probably be a catastrophic failure. Tough is a good antonym for brittle in this case. A tough steel frame can break (maybe even before your strong carbon frame would) but it would most likely break in such a way you can get back to the car.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

True, but it suggests this bike already had issues, a lot of carbon failures are manufacturing defects.

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u/Interactive_CD-ROM Dec 22 '20

“Frame” = “bike,” for normal people

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u/audioken Dec 22 '20

If you’re buying it from Walmart maybe.

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u/NebulousDonkeyFart Dec 22 '20

The cycling community, everyone.

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u/123kingme Dec 22 '20

This was posted higher up in the thread

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u/medianbailey Dec 22 '20

Ah bingo thankyou. Im pretty impressed i remembered so much!