Originally Posted by galen_52657
Works of art belong in a museum. I ride my bike and it gets all dirty and covered with road crud. Lets take one of your 'works of art' steel frames and an off-the-shelf carbon frame - you pick the brand. Then, lets put both frames through one of those testing proceedures. The carbon frame will transfer more energy to the rear wheel than the steel frame. It will also survive the maximum-cycle test longer. It also won't rust.
In closing: carbon fiber = light, stiff, strong. Steel = light (for big bucks), flexible, weak.
But you can repair a steel frame via welding or brazing. What can you do but cry yourself to sleep after you damage a CF frame?
If there is a way to repair a CF frame, I am ignorant to it and need to be educated.