Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
I'm not sure that's universally true. I would bet that a very thin walled, butted, shaped, hand welded aluminum frame would be more costly to produce, than a mass produced, generic, CF frame like you see coming out of China on EBay.
Personally I'd need to see some numbers on that before I believed it.
But even if true, Cannondale isn't selling a Caad instead of a no-warranty ebay carbon frame. They are selling you a Caad in lieu of a CF frame that goes through whatever processes they need to do before they put their name on it.