eastbaydave
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posted June 25, 2005 07:12 AM
BST wheel failure Thunderhill raceway
If you own, or are thinking of getting BST or other Carbon Fiber wheels, you may want to look into this. Much discussion & many pics on page two of the thread.
Major points:BST initially denies any failure in the wheel possible. Initially BST denies to investigate claiming "rider error." Rider error ruled out due to witnesses, experience, easy turn, & circumstances at Thunderhill Raceway (http://www.thunderhill.com.)
Failure Analysis, Inc. is now taking over investigation w/everyone's cooperation.
http://www.southbayriders.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10765&page=1&pp=15&highlight=bst+carbon+failure
Interesting read...
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trenace
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posted June 25, 2005 02:40 PM
 Edited By: trenace on 25 Jun 2005 22:55
Thanx.... that led to reading a THIRTY-SEVEN PAGE THREAD that, even after all that, had no definite answer or info, other than a pic of a drunk passed-out cat!
http://speedzilla.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=36291&page=1
http://speedzilla.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=36291&page=37
Man that thread set a record.  :
I absolutely boycott any personal discussion on my part of the matter given the massive extent to which it's over-hashed-out already (pending final testing results which will be interesting to know) but will state only that I'll stick with my BST wheels, I don't see this single failure which for all we actually, definitely know may have happened from the crash rather than being the cause of it -- and the experts employed decided could not be determined yet -- as a reason to panic. On the other hand those that want to stay away on that account, to each his own personal choice.
Damn that was simpler than 37 pages of hyperventilation! :
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eastbaydave
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posted June 28, 2005 04:53 AM
agreed...
just thought some BST owners might want to know about this....
I've ridden Thunderhill several times & bails in 7 are VERY rare (3rd gear, 90-100mph kink.)
The guy who bailed I've seen/heard on local No. CA websites & he -seems- honest?
When I hear the result of the testing; will post....
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frEEk
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posted June 28, 2005 09:21 AM
Edited By: frEEk on 28 Jun 2005 10:22
it's times like that when u really wish every rider wore a helmet cam at all times.
... so we could know for sure what happened that is, not for the morbid entertainment value.
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trenace
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posted June 28, 2005 11:31 AM
Edited By: trenace on 28 Jun 2005 15:02
Agreed, also from the thread the guy seems completely honest. And actually what he says is he doesn't know what happened, other than his bike crashed during what should have been an easy moment, either straight up or nearly so, and just before that he felt the back drop a couple of inches before completely losing control.
Which still really leaves it a mystery -- that there's really nothing to say about (at least for me personally) until the investigation is complete. Some serious forensic work is being done on that wheel to determine what happened, and has already been done on the bike as a whole (the latter, with inconclusive results, the experts deciding there was no way to determine for sure from such evidence where the failure was.)
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