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Kind of true. There are lg Taiwanese robot bike factories. But bikes are not manufactured toidentical specs in the factory. Still, similar.

For less $ you can get a handmade steel frame custom made in the USA made by a cool guy or girl!!!! He she probably will be super into making yr bike. It may have a soul.

Steel is pro America pro solo craftsman for bikes.

Anyone can take a framebuilding class set up shopand start welding frames. It takes a long time
e to get good at the craft but it’s feasible.

Carbon fiber bike molds, different start up costs.

I apologize for insulting carbon fiber and acknowledge it certainly has many great applications. I just feel strong bike frame forks and handlebars are not appropriate …

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Steel bends.

Carbon fiber snaps.

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Don’t know about planes. Just read about a lout of bike forks of carbon snapping.

Just read a carbon fibre gear website touting the 787 plane but also saying the pro carbon fiber writer wouldn’t be using the planes for a while since they’re just now entering commercial use and most of the testing is computerized.

Also sounds like lots of problems w breakage during development.

Planes might be different since they’re not going as light as a bike.

I could not relax on a carbon fiber bike.

I would not fly in a carbon fiber plane.

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Carbon fiber bicycles are IMO not safe.

Carbon fiber fails catastrophically on carbon bicycle forks.

Lance armstrongs carbon fiber chainstay peeled off during one tour de France …
That just doesn’t happen with steel…
I only meant carbon fiber bike frames. Catastrophic failure on a tennis racket obviously no big deal.

My understanding is a gouge on a carbon bike fork greatly lessens it’s theoretical strength.

Steel has more leeway for real life bike conditions.

I could be wrong but I will not ride a carbon fibre bike until they’ve been around 50 years and I see no weird chainstay random cracks for ten.

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ok im sorry i disrespected carbon fiber but i hate it. i lvoe steel, made in usa steel.

i know bicycle materials can be more contentious than religion or political arguments, so I am sorry. I shouldn
‘t have been so short and blunt.

i just hate carbon fiber. despise it. i hate everything about it.

also…

weight in bicycles in vastly overrated.

i think we already went through this analysis, but a couple pounds saved on frame, v. total rider/bike component weight package is de minimis.

waterford is an amazing us bicycle company making steel bikes. schwinn’s grandson, i think, started it…

i haven’t been on a bicycle for 3 months since i’ve been weightlifting.

but one of my tendons in my leg sort of hurts now.

really i love any bicycle and i encourage anyone to love any bicycle they love.

i believe what gary fisher said, “anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine”.

still, carbon fiber, ick.

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carbon fiber is crap.

here’s a true american bike company.

http://www.rivbike.com

steel is real.

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I have two resolutions; get string and organize my keychain. And I already accomplished one of them

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Well on the bright side, they have plenty of prosecutors working on shutting down med marijuana clinics

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I will worship the wooly mammon. Any mammon is fine.

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Pretty much one religion rules in America, the worship of mammon.

It would be fun to send some young people neatly dressed to prosyletize people to convert to mammonism.

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I think the research will show we are not just self interested creatures but that we are wired for social connection and sacrifice and religion.

Not me, of course, but the rest of you suckers.

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I heard someone deseibe newt Gingrich as porky pig with a bad hairpiece, and based on that alone, I say let’s go w Ron Paul, just for aesthetic reasons.

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I got a vasectomy so I’m useless. Also, I’m not taking on any more offspring.

No one wants my sperm, anyway.

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Ucgal I respectfully dissent. People marry when they’re ready. The persons rightness fluctuates according to readiness. There is no such thing as finding the right person. You become the right person.

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Under a feats of strength in a strongman chat group, there were listed many amazing feats of lifting pulling and carrying.

One response that stood out;

staying married.

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