Preston supera X power float rods.

[Jim Gregory]

Which guides?

 

[Huanzhou Zhu]

I thought they were carbon?

They are, so very light, but not as strong as metal I think.

 

[Huanzhou Zhu]

I suppose we all did something wrong in the past.

 

[Richard Isaacs]

They are, so very light, but not as strong as metal I think.

They’ll be much stronger than steel but far less ductile.
The warning is there because you won’t bend them you’ll shear them off but I reckon it will take some force

 

[Jim Gregory]

Carbon isn't ductile at all!

 

[Ian Woods]

A few m8s of mine swapped their alloy framed mtb's for top quality, super stiff, non flex carbon framed bikes, they swapped them back after several of them shattered on impact landing after doing a big jump!
They also had the carbon handlebars just crack off also.

 

[Huanzhou Zhu]

They’ll be much stronger than steel but far less ductile.
The warning is there because you won’t bend them you’ll shear them off but I reckon it will take some force

Yeah, that’s what I meant, your normal guides can bend, but this thing, if not look after correctly, will snap, take some force though.

 

[Richard Isaacs]

Carbon isn't ductile at all!

Correct it’s got none at all but it will flex a bit before permanent destruction

 

[Chris Jones]

I suppose we all did something wrong in the past.
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To be fair, I wouldn't do any of those things to normal metal guides. I've had the original Air AGS match rods for a few years now. They aren't my favourites, so they've not been heavily used, but I've had no issues with the guides. The smaller rings are all a bit too low for my preference. Float rods look like tip rods because of them. Whilst I'm not prepared to strip the rod for proof, I'm not entirely convinced that they offer a huge weight saving over normal metal framed guides.

Given a choice between the AGS guides and the seemingly unobtainable Fuji Titanium match guides, I'd have the Fuji every time.

 

[Huanzhou Zhu]

To be fair, I wouldn't do any of those things to normal metal guides. I've had the original Air AGS match rods for a few years now. They aren't my favourites, so they've not been heavily used, but I've had no issues with the guides. The smaller rings are all a bit too low for my preference. Float rods look like tip rods because of them. Whilst I'm not prepared to strip the rod for proof, I'm not entirely convinced that they offer a huge weight saving over normal metal framed guides.

Given a choice between the AGS guides and the seemingly unobtainable Fuji Titanium match guides, I'd have the Fuji every time.

The guides are definitely lighter than normal ones, I weighed the first two sections of the 13ft rod I have, same weight as the acolyte specimen, but the wall of the blank is much thicker, I assume the ags guides saved a lot weight.