Please make more vids, we need advice like this. I was just watching the GCN vid of the new Canyon aero race bike and had to turn it off due to the OTT marketing language, Your vids are much more useful.
Another good video mate. Your commitment to wearing a t-shirt on a cold Melbourne day has to be respected. 👌🏼
Its good to have you back mate. I hope the move went well.
Thanks Raoul!
Great to have you back, Raoul! Hope the office is good to go.
Aluminium handlebars it is! :)
Aluminium bars are looking like an upgrade, different materials for different applications
That´s exactly the reason why I went back to an aluminium bar. I never crashed, but it´s reassuring during downhill sections and sprints. Who cares about 20g weight advantage...
@@timmatkowski3840 yep i agree. There is a more solid feel through aluminium. Overall you need to look at risk verses benefit. No one on this pkanet is going to significantly benefit from losing 50 grams of weight from a handle bar. An arguement of frequency loss from the two materials may have some merit, but I haven't seen or heard of any studies. If the carbon didn't have a clamping action from the stem or the stupid ring to support the lever assemblies. The bicycle industry is severely under cooked so far as development can you imagine the aero space industry of formula one coonecting components in a vibrational or fatigue enviorment. Its a sham and a joke, it virtually proves the industry driven by profit and non standards
Yeah, get rid of the fully integrated bar, and go the regular aluminum separate bar/stem is not only the cheaper but safer solution.
Often use some thin package plastic cutouts as an intermediary between the shifter and the carbon to spread the pressure and avoid markings
Great info 👍
Good tip!
🚴♂ 🚴♂🚴♂ 👼 Thanks Raoul ………hope the workshop has bedded in well 😃👍
Yeah another video! I've broken 2 carbon bars, one from getting hit by a car, another falling at a traffic light from wonky track stand. Carbon bars aren't worth it, yet all my bikes have them. 😏
You look fit. Apart from that, I always like to watch your videos.
Is there a minimum thickness for safe Alu minimum?
Aluminum bars can crack in accidents too, as mine did. They’re just less expensive.
So how does one tell the difference from major damage (crack/delamination) vs a scratch on the surface?
Raoul has done videos on how he uses ultrasound to detect the internal damage or flaws in carbon fiber. My recollection is that some damage can be detected by less sophisticated techniques, but you need ultrasound to catch everything. Finding someone in your area to do the ultrasound might be difficult.
What to listen for.. >>.. what to look for.
How many bike riders reallllly need carbon bars??
Daß die gezielte Störung des ganzen nur eine Randbemerkung am Schluß wert war, wo doch klar und bekannt ist, daß "der Gegner" (hmm - wer könnte das sein...???) gerade hier besonders fähig und innovativ ist - das ist sehr beunruhigend.
Hätte auch erwartet, daß man auf die Aufrechterhaltung der ganzen erwähnten Kommunikation etwa im Fall der Sabotage der Satelliteninfrastruktur eingeht - oder gibt es da nichts?
Zudem sollten wir informiert werden, was im Zusammenhang mit der politisch versprochenen langfristigen Verteidigungsfähigkeit der Ukraine vorbereitet wird, um einen Beitrag zu leisten, die Ukraine wirklich resilient gegen politische Änderungen ihrer Unterstützer ("Trump-proof") zu machen.
Was, wenn am 20.01.2025, 12:01 alle Starlink-Satelliten über der Ukraine abgeschaltet werden?
Its a good day when Raoul uploads a vid :)
Thanks