Stuff like this never released into production

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RbR 10/17/2014 5:46pm
10/17/2014 5:46pm
philG wrote:
carbon fibre as a structural element has no place in motocross
lostboy819 wrote:
And why is that ?
Too brittle ...
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MotoDad77 10/17/2014 5:49pm
10/17/2014 5:49pm Edited Date/Time 10/17/2014 5:54pm
Leatt actually makes a Leatt GPX Pro neck brace out of Carbon fibre..... Total failure, we broke 3 of them in
1 race season.
lostboy819 10/17/2014 5:54pm
10/17/2014 5:54pm Edited Date/Time 10/17/2014 5:56pm
philG wrote:
carbon fibre as a structural element has no place in motocross
lostboy819 wrote:
And why is that ?
RbR wrote:
Too brittle ...
No its not, it can be made flexible, ridged etc etc depends on the application, you read one story when someone made some MX fenders that were brittle just to see how light they could make a bike and you think its all the same.
mikebrownsound 10/17/2014 5:58pm
10/17/2014 5:58pm
lostboy819 wrote:
And why is that ?
RbR wrote:
Too brittle ...
lostboy819 wrote:
No its not, it can be made flexible, ridged etc etc depends on the application, you read one story when someone made some MX fenders that...
No its not, it can be made flexible, ridged etc etc depends on the application, you read one story when someone made some MX fenders that were brittle just to see how light they could make a bike and you think its all the same.
Thats what i thought. There is different variations to approach with different style of carbon fiber. It feels to me like it would be a solution and a future with the right blend and strategy to produce it.

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lostboy819 10/17/2014 6:04pm
10/17/2014 6:04pm Edited Date/Time 10/17/2014 6:05pm
RbR wrote:
Too brittle ...
lostboy819 wrote:
No its not, it can be made flexible, ridged etc etc depends on the application, you read one story when someone made some MX fenders that...
No its not, it can be made flexible, ridged etc etc depends on the application, you read one story when someone made some MX fenders that were brittle just to see how light they could make a bike and you think its all the same.
mikebrownsound wrote:
Thats what i thought. There is different variations to approach with different style of carbon fiber. It feels to me like it would be a solution...
Thats what i thought. There is different variations to approach with different style of carbon fiber. It feels to me like it would be a solution and a future with the right blend and strategy to produce it.
Exactly,there are so many different ways to build with carbon fiber and Kevlar and it cans be made as ridged or flexible as they need it for the application. Different weaves and different resins and you can make it work to build almost anything. It is getting much cheaper to make as that is the biggest deterrent to MX is the cost to develop different parts and what kind of stress they need to endure. I am a carbon fiber junkie, love the stuff

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