AMAZING QUALITY CARBON RIM ENTRY LEVEL BIKE FRAME IN 2014. WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN JUST 10 YEARS?? 🤔🤔

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@garyfodden5034 3 ай бұрын

Ask any enginier why you shouldn't make/use a go/no go gauge out of Aluminium like Shambini uses..... Clue... they wear out of tolerence very quickly and the heat from you handling them can and will render them useless/out of tolerrence. that's why a real go/no go gauge is made of cast iron or hardened steel and is shapped like a dumb bell so you minimise the thermal shift.

@anthonylarson7919 3 ай бұрын

that may be the cleanest frame I've seen scoped...

@THECONTROVERSIALCYCLIST 3 ай бұрын

She's a beauty 👌👌

@petejohn 3 ай бұрын

Very nice frame. Some of the Halfords carrera frames were made in Vietnam. Its possible they still are. Some of those frames were half decent for the money.

@THECONTROVERSIALCYCLIST 3 ай бұрын

I 💯 👍👍

@montrose252 3 ай бұрын

Long live rim brakes and mechanical shifting. I just want a real bike. I don"t want Di2, I don't want disk, I don"t want tubeless, I don"t want hookless, or any other current BS

@robhamp9408 3 ай бұрын

I think the ex Saracen designer had a large hand in this frame. Possibly the same builders in the Far East as Saracen used which I think was Merida? Apologies if wrong. I bought a million mile on the turbo (never been out in the rain!) carbon fibre 2011 Viner frame off Ebay for £60. The internals are much better than most of what I have seen lately. Many moons ago I had an S-Works SL2 from new. The quality of that was like dining at a top gaff rather than todays offerings which are more like clearing up the stage at a Brewsters joint after the Shillers have gone to bed smashed on Red Bull.

@THECONTROVERSIALCYCLIST 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info👌💪👍

@Stephanie-dl3ry 3 ай бұрын

I have an Intuition Beta 105 and agree that it's a frame of high quality. My original guess was Axman, but it is possibly better than that.

@THECONTROVERSIALCYCLIST 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for letting us know. How does it ride? I wish Halfords kept this brand as it feels nicer and looks high quality than Bourdman bikes. Chris Bourdman is clown 🤡 in my opinion with his refusal to allow a law for it to be compulsory to wear a cycle helmet.

@jamescairney. 3 ай бұрын

What keyword alerts did you have for these finds?

@THECONTROVERSIALCYCLIST 3 ай бұрын

eBay UK. Just surfing regularly and you can find some absolute 💎 s

@jameswade4097 3 ай бұрын

Last bike frame i bought was in 2021 a 2013 Trek Domane 4.5 rim brake £2200 when new. Paid £350 for just the frame including BB and headseat, and fork. Bit of a risk on ebay, but it is in great nick and built it with 105 10s. Goes like💩 off a shovel

@THECONTROVERSIALCYCLIST 3 ай бұрын

Good man, and a very nice bike 👍👍👍👍

@AG-el6vt 6 күн бұрын

What happened? I guess it's a combination of things, but I think this has happened across other industries as well, and it's the natural consequence of the evolution of Capitalism in Western countries: - The search for increased profits is not based anymore on increased output, but on intensifying the profitability of a given product: either make production cheaper (China, cheaper materials, less material, etc.), or sell overpriced stuff through massive marketing and sales operations, about which this channel has spoken up extensively. - Related to the above: Planned obsolescence. Making things to last just isn't profitable enough anymore, when competitors are selling products that are better in the short term, but won't last long, they can cut corners on materials choice, mechanical strength, serviceability... the case of smartphones with batteries that aren't meant to be easily replaced is typical. - Also related to the above: fucking LEAN manufacturing philosophy: minimise costs, minimise stock, minimise time. When there's competition tightening everyone's margins, something has to give. In the case of bike industry, the usual victims are durability and quality assurance. - Indirectly also: the polarisation of wealth, with the richest people accumulating more and more wealth, the market for mid-level products is shrinking, so that only entry-level and top-level products sell well. This is why you can have at the same time the 2022 great inflation, the market overall shrinking since the end of the covid lockdowns, and yet top brands keep churning out the latest flagship models that aren't any better than last year's, but rich mamils will keep buying them.

@rosomak8244 3 ай бұрын

What happened? Bikes, and esp. road bikes, became the items of vanity. The industry managed to transfer an image of pseudo innovation and technological progress around the same silly tricks as played before for 30 years around the so called mountain bikes: take stuff from a moto-cycle and put it on a bike. On top of that they transferred the image of micro electronics to putting cheap child toy technology on bikes.

@Ugugu0804 3 ай бұрын

What happened is people been buying over priced shit, and why would manufacturers increase their workmanship skills and quality of finished product if shit flies off the shelfs because people are stupid and easely influenced buying into it. Instead of fixing up good old bicycles folks go out and buy 16 grand bikes then ofc, quality will suffer severely.

@paulmacpherson3114 3 ай бұрын

theres an old video called "Tour De Francis", an amatuer done a stage of the tour on a Halford carbon bike , it cost a grand

@THECONTROVERSIALCYCLIST 3 ай бұрын

I will check it out, thanks for letting me know👌👌

@Cycling-through-cancer 3 ай бұрын

My first bike was a Boardman (Halfords) Pro Carbon(2014), I sold it to upgrade however now I’m a much more experienced cyclist, I’m gutted I don’t still have that bike, it was brilliant.