A carbon bike perfect for ITB?

Bassjunkieuk

Found this on the main BR site:

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/5 ... rame-25600

Interesting idea to keep the weight down and could prove interesting for our one forum member that seems to have well and truly pi$$ed of the PF :-D

I wonder if Wiggle do carbon puncture repair kits ;-)

Oddjob62

A blow up bike on April 1st?

lost_in_thought

I appreciate that they went to the trouble to design a website. Even if it is a crap one!

tgotb

With an entire frame pressurised to 300PSI, that's quite a reservoir of compressed air. At a guess you could use it to reinflate a tyre at the loss of just a few tens of PSI. So the weight saving is even greater as you don't have to carry a pump :-)

asprilla

TGOTB wrote:

With an entire frame pressurised to 300PSI, that's quite a reservoir of compressed air. At a guess you could use it to reinflate a tyre at the loss of just a few tens of PSI. So the weight saving is even greater as you don't have to carry a pump :-)

You could also open a rear vent and use it as jet propulsion for that final sprint to the line....

Oddjob62

Asprilla wrote:

You could also open a rear vent and use it as jet propulsion for that final sprint to the line....

I already have that sorted :P

rjsterry

A prang with a WVM could be, err, somewhat explosive. A tyre at less than half that pressure goes off with quite a bang.

asprilla

Oddjob62 wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

You could also open a rear vent and use it as jet propulsion for that final sprint to the line....

I already have that sorted :P

Theres a difference between you moving quciker and everyone behind you slowing down :P