The More Cash Than Brains Track Bike The Worx WX-R Vorteq $39,000 ? :(

[GuyBoden]

Forget carbon and steel, I'm saving for this 24K gold bike at the inexpensive price of £208,333.33

Gold with diamonds, but you have to provide your own pedals.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOTrfMf6GTA

 

[classic33]

Planes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12951-composite-aircraft-may-hide-dangerous-flaws/

Cars
https://carbonfibermonocoque.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/crash-safety-of-lightweight-cars/

Fishing tackle
http://www.easycomposites.cn/downloads/TDS/EC-TDS-Fishing-Pole-Repair-Kit.pdf

Yachts
https://www.semanticscholar.org/pap...lhan/14c01263dab72b5015c2da2fc8cb74104f1c1f3c

Planes
Composite material, not just carbon fibre.


Lightweight Cars(single seater F1)
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/formula-one-car-safety-comfort/
And things have improved since that was written.

Boats, MV ULYSSES RoRo car ferry

You'll note that the steel trailer is damaged.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Maybe to the uninitiated

We are the uninitiated - almost to a man/woman, I fear

 

[Anthony.R.Brown]

Carbon fiber is NOT stronger than aluminium and steel

https://www.largescaleforums.com/th...-not-stronger-than-aluminium-and-steel.23881/

 

[CanucksTraveller]

It is though.

 

[cougie uk]

This is a fun watch.

View: https://youtu.be/QYqOMjoz_i8

 

[fair weather cyclist]

Now I want a bike made with buffalo horn

 

[Anthony.R.Brown]

Carbon bicycle fail compilation #1

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn29u7GoqPk

 

[cougie uk]

Now I want a bike made with buffalo horn

I bet someone's tried it...

 

[Anthony.R.Brown]

Forget carbon and steel, I'm saving for this 24K gold bike at the inexpensive price of £208,333.33

Gold with diamonds, but you have to provide your own pedals.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOTrfMf6GTA

The really Crazy thing about that piece of junk! is that the Seat and Handlebar angles are wrong! ?

 

[classic33]

Carbon fiber is NOT stronger than aluminium and steel

https://www.largescaleforums.com/th...-not-stronger-than-aluminium-and-steel.23881/

From that link
"Stronger than steel is a bit of a misnomer when it comes to carbon fiber. At the same density, carbon fiber is a lot stronger than steel, but that's not reality. Carbon fiber is 1/5th the density of steel. So what you're looking at is strength to weight ratio. If you have a sheet of steel that weighs 10Kg and a sheet of carbon fiber of the same weight, the carbon fiber would definitely be stronger, but it would also be 5x thicker than the steel sheet.

CF has a ton of uses where a light, strong, rigid part is needed, but I'm never been a fan of most of the CF parts on big, heavy RC cars, especially in parts of the frame where it is subject to forces from multiple different directions. But hey, folks can get whatever they want with their money! :ROFLMAO: "

 

[nickyboy]

Carbon bicycle fail compilation #1

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn29u7GoqPk

As the narrator says, if you have a serious crash you need to check your carbon bike for failures. The bikes aren't just failing (as you seem to suggest), they are failing following a serious impact. It is true to say that carbon frames will not deform in the way, say, a steel one will do upon impact, the Young's Modulus of carbon is totally different from steel.

But avoid crashing your carbon bike and it isn't going to fail from under you

 

[Anthony.R.Brown]

As the narrator says, if you have a serious crash you need to check your carbon bike for failures. The bikes aren't just failing (as you seem to suggest), they are failing following a serious impact. It is true to say that carbon frames will not deform in the way, say, a steel one will do upon impact, the Young's Modulus of carbon is totally different from steel.

But avoid crashing your carbon bike and it isn't going to fail from under you

Well considering Pro Cyclists are Crashing now more than ever then that advice won't do for them!

Why Are There So Many Crashes Now! In Road Racing ?

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/why-are-there-so-many-crashes-now-in-road-racing.274182/

 

[classic33]

The really Crazy thing about that piece of junk! is that the Seat and Handlebar angles are wrong! ?

Who for?

 

[classic33]

Well considering Pro Cyclists are Crashing now more than ever then that advice won't do for them!

Why Are There So Many Crashes Now! In Road Racing ?

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/why-are-there-so-many-crashes-now-in-road-racing.274182/

Proof, in the form of figures of crashes over the years please.
To back that claim up.