October 24th, 2011, 11:09 AM | #1 |
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don't see this everyday
Found this little video and just kinda had to go
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October 24th, 2011, 11:19 AM | #3 |
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Maybe, but think about this for second; the rim came apart most likely from either a defect or metal fatigue. The naked eye can't always see those w/o help. Just a possibility that when checking the rim it looked fine only to have something wrong with it that couldn't be seen.
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October 24th, 2011, 11:22 AM | #4 |
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Geeeez.... They'll have to start X-raying rims now for stress cracks.
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October 24th, 2011, 11:25 AM | #5 |
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That was a strange one. The wheel spokes themselves sheared off. Some folks said that the team was running the wheels for too long, but it's still a very rare catastrophic failure.
More info here and here. Luckily it was at a relatively low-speed corner, so he escaped without injury. Must have felt particularly strange from the saddle...
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October 26th, 2011, 07:41 AM | #6 |
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I kinda thought single-sided swingarms wouldn't be so common if we were anywhere near the limits of the materials. |
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October 28th, 2011, 05:43 PM | #7 |
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Wow... that definitely isn't something you see everyday Can't imagine how that would have felt at all
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October 28th, 2011, 06:45 PM | #8 |
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The swingarm was fine - this was a wheel failure.
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October 28th, 2011, 09:09 PM | #9 |
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October 28th, 2011, 09:18 PM | #10 |
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I'm not sure I follow. The wheel failure had nothing to do with whether its axle was bolted up to a single-sided or dual-arm swingarm. The spokes themselves on the OZ wheel sheared off for some reason that wasn't made public, whether earlier crash damage, microcracks during manufacture, or any other possible cause.
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Sad news today about Maxime Berger, the rider who had one of the weirdest wheel failures captured on video few years back.
in coma obit
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