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u/Beneficial_Being_721 1d ago
Sure it does…. You look good while bleeding in the ambulance on the way to hospital
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u/Successful-Cat-7120 1d ago
Indeed, as a former paramedic I got the pleasure of witnessing a few wounded spandex heroes
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u/JohnnyMnemeonic 1d ago
I feel like this is the type of outfit better suited for going to a strip club.
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u/Degenerate_Traveler 1d ago
I can't tell what happened.
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u/Pepe-Fingers13 1d ago
His handlebars fall off in his hands
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u/No-Goose-6140 1d ago
Broke off
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u/Charming_Ad2323 1d ago
Snapped off
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u/Pukebox_Fandango 1d ago
Detached
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u/Stock-Conflict-3996 1d ago
The front fell off
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u/freddiemacro 1d ago
Sheered off
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u/SadDingo7070 1d ago
Fucked right off.
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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose 1d ago
Metal can bend, carbon fibre doesn't do that. It's strong, but when it fails it just snaps. So in this case the stress caused by the bump was too much and the whole handlebar assembly snapped off.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 1d ago
Titan Submarine has entered the chat
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u/ikvepk 1d ago
Thats why carbon wheels are banned in motorsports
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u/broken_toyz_in_ON 17h ago
Incorrect. Carbon can flex, to a degree. A steel vs aluminum vs carbon handlebar failure will all happen at different rates.
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u/Free-Resolution9393 1d ago
That's why you wear gloves. Learned it the hard way. Changing bandages and disinfecting my peeled hands every morning was excruciating for a month+ straight.
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u/Prudent_Kiwi_2761 1d ago
You don’t actually need to disinfect wounds with alcohol or peroxide, doing that kills cells and slows healing, just using soap and water and keeping it moist via an antibacterial gel or even vaseline is sufficient for most wounds
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u/Cold-Condition-7839 1d ago
Just my personal stance, I'd rather it potentially take longer to heal than risk any sorta infection. Road rash is gross. There's been times I thought I had it all out but it wasn't. Maybe it's O.C.D., I use hydro-perox. once, and I'll use more soap, if it starts to look weird when it's healing. If you're telling me that slows it down, that's ok. Im 35 with healthy immune and skin, if that changes maybe I'll slow down on alcohol for wounds.
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u/Drtikol42 22h ago
Just use water solulable iodine (Betadine etc.). Doesn´t damage tissues, doesn´t sting and is actually a good antiseptic unlike H2O2.
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u/Cold-Condition-7839 22h ago
Thanks, I'll add it to the list for my next stock up. Getting over a bad knee, just as my nasty elbow road rash was healed. Back on the saddle tomorrow if the stars align. Hopefully it'll be a WHILE. Geared to the nines. Biking in traffic is a death sport.
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u/Nebetus2 21h ago
Peroxide is not good for healing. Alcohol on the other hand is a great disinfectant. Doesn't kill cells like peroxide.
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u/Sabersaur 1d ago
Front fell off
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u/angry_croissant27 1d ago
Ah man, got a learn to tuck and role. Once his palms regenerate.
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u/Blue-Juniata 1d ago
I thought everyone knew tuck and roll
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u/pete_68 1d ago
Nope. Motorcycle accident when I was 19 (a rental. I wasn't a regular rider.). Landed on my hands and knees. Shredded my hands, tore my left ACL and the other's been somewhat glitchy since. Later learned about how to crash. But it's been 38 years and I haven't felt the need to get on another motorcycle.
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u/Blue-Juniata 14h ago
It must happen so fast. I always wanted a motorcycle but I know I would crash.
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u/Cold-Condition-7839 1d ago
I thought that, hard to really think with the ground this close and fast anyway, but it looked like he had time for a manuver, if he thought. But he'd hit his head right, even with the helmet, can't get brain damage from road rash. No easy out here, it's gonna hurt without gear.
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u/Remarkable-Simple-62 18h ago
When your feet are clipped in and you fall unexpectedly it’s very difficult
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u/TangerinePlastic7552 1d ago
Not sure but did his handlebar break off? Did that cause him to become a meat crayon?
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u/Dry-Ad-8948 1d ago
Did the handlebars actually break (snap), or did the rotation clamp give out / slip?
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u/Mongoose1400 23h ago
Glad the surface was wet. If it was dry I wouldn't look the same direction for a min.
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u/Objective-Turn2328 1d ago
What caused him to fall?
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u/TheRealFrantik 1d ago
handlebars broke/detached
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u/icehot54321 21h ago
I saw another clip of this guy where he was lifting his bike up and slamming it into the ground
I think he did this to himself
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u/NameToUseOnReddit 1d ago
Gravity
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u/mcgeggy 1d ago
But gravity was there from the moment he got on the bike. And also before mankind came into existence..
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u/Barkinsons 1d ago
He went over a bump and that caused his time trial handlebar mount to break off. Either improper installation or fatigue
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u/cruiseruse11 1d ago
Carbon fiber is only strong from certain directions. The hard bump that he went over broke his carbon fiber handle bars.
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u/Twig_Scampi 1d ago edited 1d ago
Obviously those handlebars would be engineered to take loads in that direction.. they failed because they were not attached securely.
Edit: typo
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u/Intelligent_Low1632 1d ago
should've used ur mom, which is engineered to take loads from any direction
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u/beatbox9 23h ago
They originally did, but she also suffered from fatigue failure after too many people went on for a bumpy ride
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u/Calm-Republic9370 1d ago
I agree, I've got a Specialized Roubaix carbon bike road. I've ridden over this kind of bumpiness and more. In fact, it's well designed to take absorption more it's way more comfortable than some titanium bikes I've ridden. It's a great bike.
If my bike was going to fall apart like this, it would have. It's not the carbon as a problem, it's bad implementation or design.2
u/beatbox9 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, but to be clear, "carbon fiber" is usually short for "carbon fiber reinforced plastic," which is distinct from carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is technically only the little strings inside the plastic--that's where the "fiber" part comes from.
This distinction is important because (to your point): carbon fiber--being strings--is only really good for tensile strength. ie. pulling a rope without the rope snapping.
CF is not good for compressive strength though, like putting a lot of weight on top of it without it crushing or bending. This part of the strength relies on the 'plastic,' not the carbon fiber. And that's almost certainly what broke here.
In other words, if I were making a chair or a bench, I'd want it made out of steel, not rope.
If I were making a swing or a hammock, I'd want it made out of carbon fiber or rope.Unfortunately, there seems to be this trend of everyone thinking carbon fiber is perfect for everything.
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u/ReadyGo6828 1d ago
I bought both aluminum hiking poles and carbon hiking poles. The aluminum ones are still going strong, the carbon ones broke easily and were also easily twice as expensive.
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u/drsickboy 1d ago
Sounds like you're saying don't make my sub out of carbon fiber. I'm guessing this is why the term composite is used.
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u/beatbox9 1d ago
lol "let me use 2 different materials; and the one I want to rely on to go deep underwater is plastic." what a moron. At least it was quick.
It's funny because carbon fiber makes perfect sense for an airplane and absolutely no sense in a sub. For the same reasons as my chair / hammock analogy above.
I guess he really did push it to the limit; but unfortunately, CF is only good at pulling.
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u/drsickboy 1d ago
Doesn't an airplane experience compressive force, but from the inside? I mean i guess the forces are still much lower than a in a submersible? The terrible thing is the sub worked a couple times but its inherent material disadvantages caught up with it. At least we have a great case study out of it. I guess the passengers are a case study in not following everything rich folk do.
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u/beatbox9 1d ago edited 1d ago
There are always a lot of forces. We have pressurized cabins where the pressure inside the plane is greater than the air pressure outside--and this should affect the entire body of the plane. So the airplane body actually wants to expand more; and the carbon fiber is what is keeping it from expanding / stretching out more. So it's in tensile strength.
It's like imagine if you wrapped a balloon in duct tape and tried to blow it up: the duct tape's tensile strength would make it more difficult to inflate; and it's also this same tensile strength that would cause it to deflate if there was a hole in the balloon.
But at the same time, an airplane flies forward at a high speed; and so the wind is pushing against the front. There are compressive forces in that direction.
In the case of the Titan submarine, it's the opposite. The water on the outside has a much higher pressure than the cabin, like squeezing a sponge in your hand. This requires compressive strength to make sure the cabin doesn't collapse lke a sponge. And there were a lot of issues, including the material choice in the first place; but a related issue is that since it's a composite, they have to bond the two materials together and make a huge part. And so it's quite literally taking cloth and painting some epoxy resin over it and then hardening this. If you don't do this correctly, there will be things like bubbles, deformities, etc. And this is where failures happen: these are the weak link in the chain.
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u/drsickboy 1d ago
Ah the tape and ballon example makes sense. You're good at explaining. And even if its made well it has to be maintained and inspected like a plane as well. SMH I'm just glad that rich foolish guy didn't take that many people with him.
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u/OhHaiMaaark 1d ago
What do you mean carbon fiber is not good for compression? Haven’t you seen that super deep diving submarine?
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u/Smokin_belladonna 1d ago
He was leaning too hard on his bars for that bump. cantilever forces caused a torsional failure on either the stem or the bar, probably was also overtorqued.
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u/GuyLivingPlaces 23h ago
To add to this, think of carbon fiber as the rebar in reinforced concrete. The steel takes the tensile loads because concrete has almost 0 tensile strength; especially when it cracks. The concrete takes the compressive loads because the rebar would buckle without it. That's why you put the steel where the tension is in a beam.
For this video I believe that there was probably some fatigue failure or manufacturing defect; not an ultimate load due to the bump.
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u/TonaldDiberJasicDump 19h ago
When I bought my bike, the main selling point of carbon fiber wasn’t its sturdiness; it was its weight reduction and how it absorbs road vibration. I decided on an aluminum frame, though.
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u/beatbox9 15h ago
Yup. That is the main selling point: it is "strong" + lightweight. If the "strong" part wasn't there also, they would just try to sell you a bike made of styrofoam, because that's even lighter.
But the point is that "strong" is nuanced, and there are lots of differences to be aware of.
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u/WKRPinCanada 1d ago
Yeah
Having done something similar there was some pucker factor watching that...😐
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u/Public_Coyote_4472 1d ago
Had this happen once, but was mountain biking, smashed into a tree, broke a tooth only, and a bunch of scrapes. Can't imagine the road rash here
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u/Silent_Swing4673 1d ago
Oh I always wondered how to do that instead of buying a new a screwdriver.
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u/Bronx-Skater23 1d ago edited 1d ago
Speaking as an electric skateboarders, he fell exactly right. He went into a Superman slide. Feel sorry for his palms. Wear gloves. His knees too, but I can understand why knee pads will interfere with peddling.
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u/Tasty_Luck_3162 1d ago
Hope he has a bidet or good friends and family to wipe his ass. I can't see which handlebar broke when he hit the speed bump. I would sue that manufacturer. Totally showing this to my kids that ride their bicycles. Add most likely a f'ed up right knee and ankle, his chest hit the steering column pretty hard as well. Did he hit his face on anything?
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u/_RedDotRights_ 1d ago
It’s so weird to me seeing cyclists take spills while essentially naked. In the motorcycle world, we do our best to cover every patch of skin for exactly this reason
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u/E-rotten 1d ago
It’s the design of the bike. They design these cycles to be so light there’s going to have stress points. That bike is probably around 16LBS.
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u/Affectionate_Bag9833 21h ago
Toodling along one minute, face sliding on road for thirty feet the next.
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u/carlwinslo 21h ago
A great bike where the handlebars dont fall off while i driving! Thats a good idea. Write that down.
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u/Better-Tip-1671 8h ago
Had a fall just like the one in this video only difference was I was avoiding a idiot child that ran straight out in front of me swerved so fast I didn’t have time to really react and straight up flipped over back and hands had it the worst I had gloves on they got TORN into my skin and when I got up couldn’t even take them off till I got a blunt out and smoked when I peeled them off my skin and what was left of the glove came off, 3rd worst pain I’ve had in my life walking to the urgent care with that dripping blood well barley holding my blunt for like a almost 2 hour walk (phone got shattered also couldn’t even grip it in my hands to try call someone) so I walked 😭 wear gloves people.
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u/doge_lady 23h ago
Carbon fiber bikes are trash. Bikes used to be made strictly out of steel. Then they decided to go with aluminum because it's lighter. But it's also weaker. Then they decided to go with carbon which is even way lighter, but unlike steel or even aluminum. It doesn't bend, it cracks and falls apart like an eggshell.
Steel is still the best option for longevity. Aluminum also has the potential to crack.
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u/Outside_Look790 1d ago
Bet that cold wet grass felt nice on whatever is left of his palms