Carbon Fibre MTB $477 ( from ASDA)

jibi
jibi Posts: 857
edited July 2007 in The bottom bracket
I know this is Cake Stop and we don't usually have bike stuff here
and it's Walmart I know, but they do own ASDA

But this must be a joke, must be??

http://murl.se/26553

Carbon fibre......welded (zoom in the photo)
Lightweight........ only 40 pounds

something seems not quite right there


george

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Comments

  • Peyote
    Peyote Posts: 2,189
    I think Diamondback made a carbon/alu frame back in the early nineties which had similar welds (the carbon was in the middle of the tubes, the alu acted a bit like lugs).

    I'm very suspicious of that one though, the finishing kit suggests that the frame probably won't be that good!
  • speshcp
    speshcp Posts: 3,746
    By using the term "shipping weight", they are probably including the packaging. For the bike itself, I'd say a good deal of the weight looks like being in the wheelset and the forks.

    And lLooking at the zoomed-in picture, there's precious little carbon on that frame - about half the length of the front triangle tubes consists of aluminium. :lol:
    "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." (Albert Einstein)

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