Originally Posted by
cnnrmccloskey
But in all honest look through
http://www.bustedcarbon.com most of what you see on there are nice, not cheap, and its still broken, carbon is strong, but easily compromised and failures tend to be instant and catastrophic, riding carbon is a gambit cheap or expensive,
To be fair, the first post on the page is titled "The result of a 50+ km/h crash." I think cheap, boutique, or bamboo you are facing good odds of failure when that happens, or when you are "going 26mph when [you] hit the windshield with [your] head." Not that those are all crash failures, but many of the dramatic ones are (and many have no explanation at all). The site definitely has a very "this is what you get for riding carbon" sort of sentiment.