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Yes, honestly, a good aluminium frame is preferable to carbon for 90% of people. The small tradeoff in weight and vibration/stiffness characteristics is really
by sudosysgen 5y ago
Yes, honestly, a good aluminium frame is preferable to carbon for 90% of people. The small tradeoff in weight and vibration/stiffness characteristics is really not worth the loss in structural integrity, money, and peace of mind.
- TAKEMYMONEY 5y agoModern carbon frames are designed with structural integrity in mind, the frame-building process allows more fine-tuning than aluminum. Aluminum's best quality is it's value, you can wreck one and buy another and still have spent less than a low-grade CF frame.
- sudosysgen 5y agoNot quite. Carbon fiber is a composite. Structural integrity is not one dimensional, and while carbon fiber frames are great in their intended loads, they are bad in puncture and abrasion, and that is inherent to carbon fiber. It is so much easier to wreck a carbon fiber frame than an alu frame. It just takes one pointy rock or one bad slide. Whereas an alu frame will only receive cosmetic damage
- TAKEMYMONEY 5y agoThat's a nuanced point to draw, thank you; most of my wrecks have been head-on, or from the side. I can patch my fiber frame though, it's getting harder to "total" them nowadays imo. I've tried!
- sudosysgen 5y agoI see - I definitely haven't been keeping up that hard, so I may be surprised by recent improvements :)
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