I play ultimate with a guy who rides his 2011ish lefty to our 7am pickup game. It doesn’t seem ideal for commuting in NYC.
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fresh 58cm CAAD10 with 10s Rival
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Workhorse of the cat 3 peloton
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this thing rips pretty hard for only 200 dollhairs
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Which other two sports do you plan on doing?
Weird 1-inch stem
in contact with alu/carbon bars/steerer that will be one hell of a sacrificial anode!
@sleve_mcdichael diecast AZ91?
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google is not confirming that the EM90 actually is diecast, but surely that’s also stupid idea for dental reasons (although perhaps a deep state psyop by big dental?) surely diecast structure is gonna be less good than wrought / forged for ongoing tooth retention.
according to wikipedia Magnesium alloy - Wikipedia
Magnesium casting proof stress is typically 75–200 MPa, tensile strength 135–285 MPa and elongation 2–10%. which sounds like an uncommanded faceplant waiting to happen. This is un heat treated aluminum, e.g. 7075 T0 territory, 7075 T6 is like 280MPa yield (proof stress == yeild for discussion purposes)
the one thing google did tell me is EM90’s corrode just sitting about in a box. it’s a Mg, Al, Zn alloy it’s basically designed to suffer galvanic corrosion just sitting there. Mg is more electronegative than Al, so maybe there’d be issues with an Al bar and stationaly trainer sweat (or even rain water) but the reall future of green electricity generation is installing a steel handlebar in one of these stems, i reckon you could power a gameboy off of it for 20 minutes at least 
EDIT because i’m a dumbass, but what are the bolts made of? and will they fail of hydrogen embrittlement due to the galvanic corrosion first or will the stem itself crumble to dust around them if you use / don’t use the right kind of antisieze / grease when assembling? there’s a reason fighter jets and ICBMs are expensive (in addition the usual military industrial complex corruption shenanigans) and that’s becuase when you absolutely have to use “fancy” light weight materials you then run into issues having enlisted personnel maintain them and / or flying them off of aircraft carries which famously operate in the ocean (or like just fill them with the most henious hypergolic substances known to man for the ICBM case).
PS i’m assuming this was the kind of unhinged borderline incomprehensible ravings you were expecting, although don’t you have the published papers or whatever in magnesium related nonsense?
For those playing at home, steel is real (cheap, useful, available, etc., meaning a LOT of stuff is made from it and most of my experiance is with it (and no one would let me play with nuclear materials))
PPS my final year project was “co-ordination of dopants in stabilised cubic Zircona using Mossbauer spectrosopy” which DID involve nuclear materials (Gadolinium) AND X-rays AND a soon to be deceased VAX32 “Super computer”, what a time to be alive
PPPPPS sorry for the 11ty edits, i just got a new to me win 11 laptop from work IT and rather than figure out how to make it useable i’m just doing metallurgical shitposting instead
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this is the kind of post I come here for
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I do, but that was about incredibly soft single crystals of Mg-Zn solid solution
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I hope by posting I can cleanse my desire
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I’ll go halvesies
which halves?
Fronts of course
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Tiny skinny tubes Pego
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Someone get that to Jan to test
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I always wanted a serotta