On 10/9/07, Evan Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice Frank but....carbon fiber? I always had you pegged for a > retrogrouch. : P
Heh-heh! I can be a retro-grouch about bikes, just like cameras. ;-) My road bike is retro looking (but actually fairly new technology in the frame materials) but my trackbikes have been fairly hi-tech. This one has fat aluminium tubes, and a carbon-fibre fork. The steering tube is steel; what you see in the photo that's carbon fibre are simply spacers. I suppose the fact that they're CF makes them a tad lighter than (the usual) aluminium spacers, but for the few grams the extra cost isn't worth it. They just look way cool! ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
