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It was a different frame to the one used at Hardline. His mechanic switched it the week of Crankworx. I watched him hit the road gap in Maydena for testing and the landing to flat bent his pedals. He still used that same frame at Hardline though.
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It was a different frame to the one used at Hardline. His mechanic switched it the week of Crankworx. I watched him hit the road gap in Maydena for testing and the landing to flat bent his pedals. He still used that same frame at Hardline though.
That's interesting. I wonder if he'd stuck with the Hardline frame whether the front would have come away.
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"The frame that broke had been raced at Hardline and seen numerous practice runs put on it in the lead-up to the Crankworx DH finals, so it hadn't exactly had an easy start to its life."
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/why-did-bernard-kerrs-prototype-frame-break-at-crankworx-roturua.html
Dammit
TotalShanner
I’d guess it’s the same one from Hardline- that’s speculation, but given the pace that Pivot are handing out the prototype frames and what we could see in Kerrs’ LSD’s I don’t think he had a fresh frame to build up for Crankworx.
Also interesting is that Atherton have a double metal wall in their joints that sandwiches the carbon tube on either side- Kerrs’ frame appears to only bond to the external face of the tube.