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How long did he have the frame?

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Good thing he was wearing a helmet.

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Yep. Downtube/headtube joint. Clean as a whistle.

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Since May 1997 F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi is part of Cycleurope A.B. group
[Bianchi, Legnano, Puch and Chiorda marques]

Thats what you get when great Italian manufacturers/builders sell out
to the Capitalists

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inconnu said:

Quoted post said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=photos/2006/dec06/worldcup8_06/guerc065

Since May 1997 F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi is part of Cycleurope A.B. group
[Bianchi, Legnano, Puch and Chiorda marques]

Thats what you get when great Italian manufacturers/builders sell out
to the Capitalists

Dumbass -

Two things:

1) Those "great Italian manufacturers" were capitalists themselves
2) Their bikes also broke

When engineers design bicycle frames, they take calculated risks when
it comes to reliability/lightness. There is no free lunch. Until a
quantum leap is made with a frame composed of Buckminster Fullerenes,
lightness=less crash survivability.

thanks,

K. Gringioni.

amit said:

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Carl Sundquist said:

How long did he have the frame?

Dumbass,
Any rbr initiate should know that one: 1 year and 1 day.

Sorry you failed your rbr dumbass entrance exam; however you can apply for
a rewrite.

On 10 Dec 2006 18:36:16 -0800, "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]>

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I do not want to be the manufacturer's rep he is walking toward.

Ron

RonSonic said:

I do not want to be the manufacturer's rep he is walking toward.

You can tell from his dazed and confused eyes and expression that he's
juiced to the gills. He probably dope-stomped on the pedals, made a
dope-quick turn, his front end was dope-turning while the rest of the
bike was still dope-accelerating. Clearly operator doping error.

R

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Kurgan Gringioni said:

inconnu said:

Quoted post said:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=photos/2006/dec06/worldcup8_06/gue
rc065

Since May 1997 F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi is part of Cycleurope A.B. group
[Bianchi, Legnano, Puch and Chiorda marques]

Thats what you get when great Italian manufacturers/builders sell out
to the Capitalists

Dumbass -

Two things:

1) Those "great Italian manufacturers" were capitalists themselves
2) Their bikes also broke

When engineers design bicycle frames, they take calculated risks when
it comes to reliability/lightness. There is no free lunch. Until a
quantum leap is made with a frame composed of Buckminster Fullerenes,
lightness=less crash survivability.

Engineers were involved? I wish I could be sure. But that looks to my
amateur eye like a failure that started at the weld, which implies a
manufacturing failure rather than a design failure, notwithstanding that
the spec for the joint could be inherently flawed.

Oddball grid-structured tubes:

http://www.titusti.com/ligero.html

Actual nanotube-using frame:

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=3870

-RjC

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