Hey everybody and welcome back to another Pink Bike podcast. So last week, we talked about the field

test for about 20 minutes too long. And then at the end of the show, I admitted I had no idea

what we were going to talk

about this week, which is kind of silly because there was a little Hock to Flat video that went

live. I took a scroll through those comments and I realized that a lot of you are breaking carbon

cranks. Now, there's probably some vocal minority and all that out there, sure, but also, it almost

looks like if you haven't personally broken a set of carbon cranks, you probably know somebody

who has, which is kind of crazy. So today, we're going to talk about carbon components, where

they make sense, where they might not make sense, risk versus reward, expectations,

and we'll probably talk about all the carbon things we've broken over the years.

But, of course, metal things break all the time for all sorts of good and bad reasons as well.

So before we get into all the carbon fiber bashing, I just want to

remind ourselves that everything can break. Everything probably will break at some point. So to do that,

other mic is here as well. I keep inviting them back. Casimir, can you remember the first

proper mountain bike component that you broke way back in the day. Did you ever like, did you ever break like a

600 millimeter wide aluminum handlebar or bend like a 19 millimeter wide Mavic rim or something?

Definitely. Yeah, my first, my very first mountain bike, I bent the frame so bad that the rear wheel

kept coming out when I'd be racing, like the dropout spent somehow.

So I'd have to stop during the race, undo the quick release, and basically stomp on the back

of the bike to hold it all together and then keep racing. So it didn't help my results, I don't

think. Was that a steel? That was a steel hardtail or something? Yeah, steel like diamond back to Panga SE back in like 94 or 95-ish. Yeah.

So that was the first thing.

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