Old 04-12-24, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by roadcrankr
Damn, if that doesn't look horribly similar! And look at that larger failure above it. Hope the cyclist came out unscathed.
The photo is from the link I provided---a fatigue test of 13 high-end frames in various materials. So no cyclists were harmed.

It's a very interesting article, with non-intuitive results. (All the steel and titanium frames broke; two aluminum frames and one carbon frame survived.)
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