life of a bike frame

saymush

There was a time when steel frames had a finite life
Alluminium to a lesser extent too

Is there an accepted period beofre a carbon frame should be changed for safety reasons perhaps.

Please someone show me this to be the case

even better if its less than three years

Heckler1974

Well as we all know once you've got it wet it's game over, you'd be mad to ride a carbon frame that's been out in the rain.

Cleat Eastwood

Is that true? Rain damages carbon frames?

STEFANOS4784

Heckler1974 wrote:

Well as we all know once you've got it wet it's game over, you'd be mad to ride a carbon frame that's been out in the rain.

+1, common knowledge.

black20vt

Carbon fibre has a half life of 13 months, that is why the manufacturers bring out a new one every year. Its for YOUR safety.

saymush

My fears exactly but Mrs Mush is a scientist, I might need more convinvcing arguments than soluble resins 8)

saymush

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

Is that true? Rain damages carbon frames?

it causes the rigidity to reduce hence the bouncing feeling you get. Its why we have best bikes.

STEFANOS4784

saymush wrote:

My fears exactly but Mrs Mush is a scientist, I might need more convinvcing arguments than soluble resins 8)

Just blag it and call her bluff, being a scientist does not make her a composites expert or expert on bicycle life. If scientific explanation is more important to her than your safety maybe she needs to have a long hard think?

saymush

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

saymush wrote:

My fears exactly but Mrs Mush is a scientist, I might need more convinvcing arguments than soluble resins 8)

Just blag it and call her bluff, being a scientist does not make her a composites expert or expert on bicycle life. If scientific explanation is more important to her than your safety maybe she needs to have a long hard think?

composites are her thing

saymush

but if my happiness is less important than the cost of this http://www.evanscycles.com/products/specialized/s-works-transition-2010-frameset-ec016896?query=Specialized

then youre right there is something very very wrong. :twisted:

STEFANOS4784

Your screwed then :P

Will last until you smash it into something / yoursmashed into, at some god awful speed :shock:

Heckler1974

saymush wrote:

composites are her thing

But it's your safety we're talking about here, how would she feel if because she denied your repeated pleas for a new frame (and after a torrential downpour) your bike frame collapsed beneath you on a hairy descent?

Actually if composites are her thing, she must know this will happen, are you sure she doesn't want rid of you?

saymush

hmmmm i sense an accident casued by a failing frame coming on,

Im sure the time taken to build it up will help me forget the aches and pains im suffering as i do it moo ha ha ha ha :twisted:

jim453

saymush wrote:

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

saymush wrote:

My fears exactly but Mrs Mush is a scientist, I might need more convinvcing arguments than soluble resins 8)

Just blag it and call her bluff, being a scientist does not make her a composites expert or expert on bicycle life. If scientific explanation is more important to her than your safety maybe she needs to have a long hard think?

composites are her thing

Ask her the original question then!

STEFANOS4784

Now you're thinking outside of the box 8)

saymush

jim good idea!

but it does rather tie me to the answer she gives.

There is however a third way

A way so cunning that even though i may be rumbled no objection can be raised.

Ill buy it, sneak it in and start using it. when questioned ill deny its new and say Ive had it for ages she just hadnt noticed :twisted: No way can she get round that one without exposing a decade of past and a lifetime of future shopping indescretions.

If in the way that only female logic can work she ignores the awkward implications of questioning this gambit, ill just say oh ok it was a bargain i had to get it

it shall be mine it shall

STEFANOS4784

I recommend you see Flashhearts thread before doing that.......

saymush

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

I recommend you see Flashhearts thread before doing that.......

Seems to have ended up alright

skyd0g

Tell her the other kids will point at you and laugh at your (now) terribly unfashionable steed and won't let them play with you anymore.

A few days getting under her feet and she'll be marching you down to the bike shop.

Bikerbaboon

Heckler1974 wrote:

Well as we all know once you've got it wet it's game over, you'd be mad to ride a carbon frame that's been out in the rain.

managed to get a fix for that problem.

you take a carbon fiber frame and wrap it in steel. Its so effective you can even reduce the size of the tube.

careful

I heard that wet frames degrade into carbon dioxide and all you have left is a footprint.

saymush

careful wrote:

I heard that wet frames degrade into carbon dioxide and all you have left is a footprint.

hmmm i see an environmental obligation angle here........