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Old 12-14-09 | 10:20 PM
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Bikes: Motobécane Grand Record, Peugeot PR10, Gitane Gran Tourisme, Peugeot PX-10

All this raises some important questions:

How come when you make a bike out of Carbon fiber Reinforced Polymer it's made of "carbon", but when you make a flyrod out of CRP it's made of "graphite"?

And aren't they both actually made of reinforced polymer?

And how come flyrods that you don't want spooking the fish are made with transparent colored polymer so the carbon fiber is sparkly, but bikes that you want visible are painted so you can't see the carbon fiber gleaming through the polymer?

And why can't we trap carbon from coal-fired generators in bike frames and flyrods instead of underground?
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