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Why Carbon Fiber Bikes Are Failing
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- toss1 8y agoSummary of growing risks w/ageing bikes on the road, some built to exacting standards, others with lesser standards, and failing from hidden flaws or damage. One inaccuracy is about carbon fiber composites fatigue, which is not the same as metal -- completely different profile for properly engineered & built carbon. While metal continually flexed below it's failure load will fatigue and fail under reduced load, that doesn't happen w/ carbon. However, metals generally fail somewhat progressively with bend/distortion/etc., carbon fiber will fail catastrophically when it's load limits are exceeded.