Broken hockey sticks

[matthias]

Broken carbon fiber hockey sticks make great spars and struts

[Racers Edge]

If you have any use for broken carbon bike frames, let me know and I can send them up your way for the cost of freight.

[Bill Huson]

how do you break a carbon hockey stick? Back in the wood days I would beat the crap out of my hockey sticks and never broke one. Cracked a blade or two, but glued the split and kept on whacking.

And bike frames - try bamboo, tis the latest rage.

[Racers Edge]

Bamboo is more of a gimmick. Rides o.k. but not great. About twice the weight of carbon. It also looses structure after 3+ years due to an inherent bacteria that grows inside. We built a bamboo bike up a couple years ago. It didn't ride that bad (or that good) however it got more comments than 99% of the bikes that we build. If it is fashion over function that you are looking for, bamboo rocks.
John Palmquist
theracersedge.net

[Bill Huson]

Heh - teasing about bamboo bikes, but for fashion over function I rode a Harley for 15 years. Had to swap out the seat and suspension to make her ridable. The original gear was definitely "style over function."

[Andrew 4CE]

I've used broken carbon hockey sticks for several items... shims sticks on the ThunderCat, rigging framing in the trailer, bracketry to secure boats in the trailer. Works great and the price is right, haha.

[seagull170]

Aluminium helicopter rotor blades are useful to & they dump them before they're broken, they make ok hydrofoils.