thescooterguy
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thanks nadroj , i appreciate and understand how you feel , i have found that some hydraulic clamps have threaded inlets for 1/4 inch thread , they can work for a clamping system , they have flexible bands that will conform to a bikes contours and not bend your frame and are thin enough to go under break and shift cables , they are not very pretty and i don't know how well they would hold up .i won't sell a clamping system until i think it is better then my bolting system , which i have 100 percent confidence in . i have been trying to research how bike frames break , what causes it ,ever since hpv started voicing his opinions on my threads . and really how much of what will break or crack or bend a bike frame .i had a customer hit a car last summer . he was OK he flew up on the hood and his front forks bent , i replaced that for him but the rest of the bike was fine even where the holes were drilled , i have never seen a broken frame , so i haven't had to deal with a problem like that . in the beginning it was chain derailment that caused most of my failures , do to an earlyer clamping system that would shift and move . changing the sprocket alignment , no mater how tight i made it. eventually it would fail . the bolting system that i use works very well . i have two customers that ride off road doing jumps and woopties exclusively , they use my peg design that drills holes in the back , i expressed concern when they ordered there bikes and to this date they have had no problems either . like i said . i have never seen a broken frame . and would like to hear from people that have had this happen so i can better understand what causes and why cracked or broken frames accure . a computer generated stress test would be really cool . where you could do differant things to a tube and then stress it to see what happens , like a flight simulation , i'm sure there is something like that out there , maybe hpv knows where to find one . i need a video camera i can mount on my helmet , and i can do some off road runs and abuse a bike to show the strength and durability of my system . i feel another video coming on