That might be a problem in this case given that this isn't really a touring bike in the first place. But carbon structures can be tough also. They drove a car over that bow frame, and the everyday damage to a bow is worse than a bike, climbing in and out of trees, bushwacking. When the car was driven over those bows they were strung and under a lot of load, so it would have been easy to compromise them. I've been around carbon for 35 years, and have the raw tow to make stuff out of. I am well aware of it's limits, but it can be tough if that is the design brief. Arrows are 350 feet per second slaming into the shoulders of big game animals, shafts of ice axes. Helmets, fighter jets. It is just a design issue. But I fully admit it is unlikely to have been part of the brief on this bike. On the other hand, I don't like my steel frame to get messed up, and I never got any scratches in it that were deep enough to have compromised a carbon bike.