Originally Posted by
Bob Ross
If carbon is so great, why do many carbon-bike enthusiasts have carbon bikes with metal bolts and metal cables?
Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
What's your point? If a material can't be used for every imaginable part of a bike, it isn't optimal for any part? Or maybe you want to build a bike out of steel bolts and cables? I fail to understand the thought process.
Perhaps you missed the OP:
Originally Posted by
titani
If Steel is so great, why do many steel-bike enthusiasts have steel bikes with carbon-forks and carbon seatposts?
Make sense now?
Perhaps if we substitute wild cards the parallel will be more explicit:
If
X is so great, why do many
X-bike enthusiasts have
X bikes with
Y parts?
How about now? See it? I could draw a diagram if that would help...