drsurf wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 12:10 pm
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You're just running a straw man argument downunder. Where are your tests of alloy bars after saltwater exposure? You're making an issue out of nothing.
Nobody has come to this thread with copious reports of carbon bars failing yet there are plenty of reports of alloy bars and other alloy components failing. By the way holes are drilled in windsurf booms to make them adjustable. I have also sold carbon windsurf booms over the last 20 years and guess where a lot of them broke, at the alloy mast connection!
And as another example alloy masts for windsurfing were discontinued a couple of decades ago because of their failure rate compared to carbon composite masts.
You can be sure that manufacturers of kite bars for OEM companies will be looking to produce carbon bars as replacement for alloy ones, and just like mountain bike carbon bars, once the manufacturing volumes have reached scale they'll be the same price and we'll wonder why anyone would use alloy bar which corrodes.
Typical seabreeze style reply.
There is 0.01% of carbon bars market, and u expecting huge numbers of reports? Please.
U expecting the same intake as in bike riding?
the WS boom is double the size in diametar of kiting bar, in relation to the hole in the middle of the bar that would be 10-16mm hole on one side and 60-80mm by 10-15mm on the other!
No carbon tube would survive this since wall thickness on ws boom can be 1.2mm thick. Or even less.
Alloy bar corrodes? Do you wash your Alu dingy or not? I would have thought splashing tap water after sesh is a good thing. I must be wrong.
Have no idea why WS guys wash every single piece of WS equipment. Every time. All the time.
I did not raise the issue. The OP did. I have absolutely no problem with a bar which has carbon handles and rock solid metal or similar centre part.
But this is NOT what's discussed here.
Straw man.
I mean, this is almost discussion like a few years ago where I claimed that Wichard is perfectly acceptable release. ney sayers ( meaning opponents), were all suggesting that is not.
And this days every 'second' foiler is using Wichard
it's even offered as preferred release. How ironic.
So maybe we will be paying a $1000 for a carbon bar in the future. Have no crystal ball to know.
Till than, good luck!