Just out of interest - Calling carbon guru's

[jiggerypokery]

Carbon frames are obviously drilled after formation for certain braze-on's and little fiddly things for which tooling a mold would be too costly and just darned messy really. So given that the drilling causes no obvious structural impediment to the overall structure would it be possible to drill a frame so that it would be possible to do internal cable routing?

Stu

 

[TheDoctor]

Ruddy heck, I wouldn't chance it.

 

[Steve Austin]

no, because they have more carbon where the drill holes are.

 

[Tollers]

Drilling DOES weaken the structure, but as Steve points out these areas may be pre-reinforced. Also, some points of a frame are subject to more concentrated stresses than others. Fractures and breaks occur at stress concentrations around imperfections such as holes.

I think you would be mad to try it.

 

[jayce]

I agree my frame is naked carbon and where there is drilled holes and stress points its thicker ,result looks black as its up tp 2 times as thick

 

[jiggerypokery]

Jolly good job I'm not thinking of doing it for real then innit!

 

[Lambchop]

You could get yourself a lovely new Bianchi Infinito - they have internal cable routing.. Problem solved!

 

[Ceedee]

You could get yourself a lovely new Bianchi Infinito - they have internal cable routing.. Problem solved!

So has my Trek Madone 5.2