And this is what I believe severely handicaps or rather oppresses the full utilisation of CF technology. The real strength in CF lies not necessarily in it's lightweight properties and physical strength but in its ability to be employed to form shapes which are difficult to impossible with other materials. The advent of nanotube CF allows engineers to build and essentially design the bike frame from the molecular level up. In order to fully realise all the potentials, some traditional thinking needs to be sacrificed but of course the purist, retrogrouches and traditionalists will scoff. And there are plenty of those in the UCI. Roadbikes will probably not benefit to as large a degree as other types of bikes where frame shapes are not constricted by tradition. That said, CF can still highly benefit the traditional diamond frame since a designer can structurally tune the frame while still conforming to the look and shape which the UCI has used to deem a bicycle a bicycle.