Re:The Sketchy World of Fake Bike Gear
by acomjean on Sunday October 04, 2015 @11:50PM
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When I ride I like to have some idea that my bike isn't going to fall apart. I safety check before my commute. Bikes & helmets are something you kinda don't want to fail when in traffic.
Bikes are commodities now, except on the high end. Thus the cheap stuff can be sold as expensive.
These are complex machines. TREK had a recall for an issue that caused a bunch of injuries.
"Ideally, we would want bicycles which are properly assembled, adjusted and maintained to be free of problems which lead to sudden, catastrophic, unexpected failure. Any mechanical system will deteriorate sooner or later, and so an incipient failure should preferably give warning in advance, or be preceded by another, more benign failure which puts the part out of service, or be so very unlikely that it is not of serious concern, or a second system should be able to take over from one which failed. A properly-adjusted enclosed-cam quick release assembly on a bicycle with no front disk brake meets this test, by being very unlikely to fail."
Bikes are commodities now, except on the high end. Thus the cheap stuff can be sold as expensive.
These are complex machines. TREK had a recall for an issue that caused a bunch of injuries.
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/qr-disk-brake.html
"Ideally, we would want bicycles which are properly assembled, adjusted and maintained to be free of problems which lead to sudden, catastrophic, unexpected failure. Any mechanical system will deteriorate sooner or later, and so an incipient failure should preferably give warning in advance, or be preceded by another, more benign failure which puts the part out of service, or be so very unlikely that it is not of serious concern, or a second system should be able to take over from one which failed. A properly-adjusted enclosed-cam quick release assembly on a bicycle with no front disk brake meets this test, by being very unlikely to fail."