Originally Posted by seely
Carbon has a huge advantage for me... it pays my salary as a bike mechanic since we are busy replacing the carbon bits that seem to catastrophicly fail from time to time on other's bikes.
I've never actually seen any carbon fibre bike stuff break, yet. Which parts have you seen, and what caused the failure, out of curiousity? I've seen some picures of broken forks and frames as a result of a crash, but never anything that failed in normal use. With all the super-light (stupid-light?) parts out there, I'd expect there are quite a few failures though, or there will be.
The only CF thing on any of my bikes is a headset spacer. So far so good.
