Ducati Bling............Part 2

[Ducrappy]

Originally posted by Sideshow
I was going to order from Naults but its on backorder.
I got this tail used from a member of DML.
He bought it mid Jan. and decided to do a tail chop.
About $75 cheeper then brand new
Should be here soon.

Stay tuned.........

SS

Nice score Chris. I can't wait to see it installed.

[benVFR]

One of you bling guys needs to get a Carbon handlebar.

I just got one for one of my bicycles. It is sweet. But then it is 80% covered up with grip tape. It'd look really nice on a motorcycle like a monster.

[Wayne-o]

Originally posted by benVFR
One of you bling guys needs to get a Carbon handlebar.

I just got one for one of my bicycles. It is sweet. But then it is 80% covered up with grip tape. It'd look really nice on a motorcycle like a monster.

Ya think the g-force during heavy breaking would snap em like a pretzel?

I use ta wind surf a lot and the masts I used were carbon fiber. I think I got about one season out of em before they fatigued and popped like a cannon. Constant flexing breaks down the fibers in the matrix and eventually fails. Not necessarily when you would like them to. The trick to CF is to know when to replace it.

Wayne-o

[Wayne-o]

Oh............................and BTW Mikey...............I think there are three "PIMPS" in this thread.

[Sideshow]

Originally posted by benVFR
One of you bling guys needs to get a Carbon handlebar.

I just got one for one of my bicycles. It is sweet. But then it is 80% covered up with grip tape. It'd look really nice on a motorcycle like a monster.

I had a set of Easton carbon bars on my cross country mountainbike.
One rockgarden later, snaped em' like a twig.
Although it sounds like you have yours on a road bike.
Look out for pot holes.

[benVFR]

You guys sound like you had some bad luck and/or defective products.

Carbon doesn't have a fatigue lifetime like aluminum, etc.. so that sailboard mast broke for some other reason.

This is on a road bike. I don't have any carbon stuff on my mountain bike, mostly because of chipping the stuff with rocks, etc.. I don't know sideshow.. did you take a set of bars designed for cross country & use them in some kind of downhill application? Do you weigh a lot? Did you crash on the bars?

I don't know about you but I don't put a whole lot of force on the motorcycle bars. I can't see how a properly designed bar made out of CF would be a problem.

[Paul_E_D]

This is a good question. While I hear the engineers talk about Carbon not fatigue-ing, I hear many stories about carbon parts failing. Where is the truth? Does the material fatigue somehow in real world use? Perhaps sun exposure? Or is manufactiring with carbon just too difficult/costly to get consistent quality?

I'd be a little nervous about using carbon bars myself. Motorcycle handlebars are subject to lots of vibration, and occasional high loads. Ever had a tank slapper? Near high side? there are occasions where thousands of pounds of force are put on the bars. Having it snap off in any situation is a sure crash. I've tried to ride with one bar and it's really tough!

[benVFR]

The issue is with the engineering and manufacturing quality.

All steel essentially performs the same. Same thing with aluminum or Ti. Different alloys have different strengths and weaknesses but essentially they are very similar.

That is not the case with carbon. If it is properly designed & manufacturered it will be much stronger and last forever. If it is poorly designed it is a lot worse than most materials.

The only real weakness is localized stress like overtorquing a bolt directly into a carbon part. Usually there is a metal/wood insert to handle that stress though.

[Sideshow]

Originally posted by benVFR
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I don't know sideshow.. did you take a set of bars designed for cross country & use them in some kind of downhill application? Do you weigh a lot? Did you crash on the bars?

I started racing DH and trained on the cross country bike
I rode that little bike harder then it was designed to be ridden.
(Went through two Cannondale CAAD4 frames.)

I got the bars used so who knows what the last guy did to them.
I weigh 185lbs and never crashed on them.

I'll stick with metal bars from now on.

[benVFR]

How ironic...

I just found this:

Carbon chopper frame

Who knows if it's any good. Then again I don't know how much I would trust a steel chopper frame either.