Thanks, I will check it out. I would like to repair my Panasonic, but there are probably better steel bikes now. As for repairing carbon, it was probably true in 1989 because that they couldn't be repaired because the technology was so new. Since 2003, Calfee has repaired 2,100 of them.

I called up Kish, a custom steel and Ti frame builder in California. I asked him about building me a steel frame. He tried to talk me out of it and recommended Ti because he said that wouldn't dent as easily, was lighter and had the same ride quality, but of course it was also more expensive. I thought that my next bike would be a Ti bike but I am open to steel. Independent Fabricators is building bikes out of stainless steel.