I think where carbon falls down in Bike World is that it has to be good stuff well designed in order to trust it. That's the only version you find in passenger jets and Formula One cars, but not so with bicycles. The difference between cheap steel and cheap carbon in our world is that the former just rides like a heavier bike, while the latter can snap in two under you if it's too thin, poorly laid up, or knocked into a couple light poles.
I get emails all the time from BikesDirect with generic Chinese carbon road bikes at absurdly low prices. I have no idea who made them, or if they have the first clue how carbon needs to be formed into a bike frame to make it trustworthy. Not gon do it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
