Carbon vs Aluminium
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Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby Slass07 » Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:57 am
It will be used mainly for commuting 25km with a mix of roads and gravel track. With the option of some weekend dirt.
The Jake the Snake comes in Aluminium or Carbon, both have pretty much the same specs with the difference being the frame material. Now for the difference in cost is it worth going for the Carbon over the Aluminium?
JTS Aluminium http://www.konaworld.com/jake_the_snake.cfm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
JTS CR Carbon http://www.konaworld.com/jake_the_snake_cr.cfm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cheers in advance
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby Davobel » Sun Dec 20, 2015 8:22 pm
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby Slass07 » Mon Dec 21, 2015 11:55 pm
The Alluminium it is then.
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby cyclotaur » Tue Dec 22, 2015 2:49 pm
Had the popcorn ready and all ....
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Tue Dec 22, 2015 8:34 pm
Give us time...cyclotaur wrote:Well that's disappointing ....was looking forward to several pages of argument and commentary re: CF vs Alu with retro grouch 'steal is real' thrown in and the whole lot being trumped by the Ti wonks.
Had the popcorn ready and all ....
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby softy » Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:33 pm
basically Carbon is more fragile.
both good bikes, if you have good bike skills and can keep it upright, carbon is nice.
comes down to the cash, and how durable you require the bike to be.
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby Mulger bill » Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:55 pm
People are so unimaginative...ColinOldnCranky wrote:Give us time...cyclotaur wrote:Well that's disappointing ....was looking forward to several pages of argument and commentary re: CF vs Alu with retro grouch 'steal is real' thrown in and the whole lot being trumped by the Ti wonks.
Had the popcorn ready and all ....
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby Pravda » Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:44 pm
Puegeot Aneto 105
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby AlexHuggs » Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:26 pm
Bamboo FTW! Do you know they build scaffolding with that stuff in Asia? I'm told it can withstand hurricanes.Mulger bill wrote:People are so unimaginative...ColinOldnCranky wrote:Give us time...cyclotaur wrote:Well that's disappointing ....was looking forward to several pages of argument and commentary re: CF vs Alu with retro grouch 'steal is real' thrown in and the whole lot being trumped by the Ti wonks.
Had the popcorn ready and all ....
So now we can argue about carbon, alloy, steel, titanium and bamboo.
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby softy » Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:09 am
so back to the question. Ally is still a really good product for bike frames. Cannondale have a really good rep fo them and continue them into the higher price brackets.
Nothing wrong with a ally bike.
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Re: Carbon vs Aluminium
Postby m@ » Wed Feb 10, 2016 12:33 pm
When did Kona sell out and start making bikes out of aluminium?cyclotaur wrote:Well that's disappointing ....was looking forward to several pages of argument and commentary re: CF vs Alu with retro grouch 'steal is real' thrown in and the whole lot being trumped by the Ti wonks.
Had the popcorn ready and all ....
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