I crashed hard on my bike and was knocked unconscious for a few days last summer.
The conscious mind was not there to filter out revelations from the vast human collective subconscious.
During this brief window when the doors of perception were opened I discovered an ancient secret.

The Secret Origin of Carbon Lust

The Annunaki were an ancient race of technologically advanced aliens.
Their technology depended heavily on carbon for the nano technology that was essential to all of their mind blowing inventions.

They were so ancient and had been advanced for so long that they exhausted their worlds supply of carbon resources.
They had long known carbon had amazing properties for transportation technology. They had used it to master time and space.
Their nano probes were sent across the galaxy looking for a new exploitable world rich in carbon.

They found the Earth when the planet was home to only a few tens of thousand of competing primates in the African grasslands.
The short stature and small brains of these primates made them poor candidates for the slave force the Annunaki knew they would need to extract our planet's vast stores of carbon.

The Annunaki began using their nano technology to genetically engineer the small primates they found. They made them bigger and smarter and much, much stronger for hard work. The first prototype was an enhanced primate but it turned out to be to reclusive in nature and painfully shy. This genetically enhanced species was too hard to socialize to make good slaves. They were turned loose to fend for themselves and are known to us as Sasquatch or Bigfoot.

The next attempt at nano genetic manipulation by the Annunaki used members of the genus hominid which eventually produced the modern human species.

We worked in the Annunaki carbon mines for a thousand years before the dawn of history. This produced a profound imprint on us as a species. We remember our interstellar overlords and look to them in the various religions that look to a sky god or gods.

The other legacy of the Annunaki genetic nano design of our DNA is an embedded desire for carbon. We were bred to look for it, find it and desire it so we would look keep looking for it.

This is why diamonds, made of carbon, and of course carbon fiber bicycles are thousands of times more expensive than their real intrinsic worth. We are hard wired to crave them, admire them and acquire them.

Northern California has long been known as a hot bed of revolutionary thought,free speech, individuality and nonconformity. Now a few brave iconoclasts here rise as a strong fringe contingent of cyclists that buck the ancient genetic paradigm. They fight back against the programing in us to lust for carbon. They escape the bondage of carbon.
Support your local fringe element and their subversive insistence on steel.