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Old 07-01-05 | 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by shane45
My Trek is made of "Alpha Aluminum". The Trek rep I spoke to said they discontinued making their frames from rising yeast and flour dough "quite some time ago".
Trek still makes frames the old way. It's called carbon fibre. If you think about it, the process of making CF frames and components is fairly analogous to baking a cake or making a loaf of bread.
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