Originally Posted by
gus6464
The way you are stating it definitely comes out as a fact. An entirely wrong fact but feel free to keep that pipe dream alive as it seems it's all the steel and aluminum people have these days.
Ohh and BTW you should also call Ferrari, Lambo, Bugatti, and especially Lexus LFA owners and tell them their car will disintegrate all on it's own in a couple years and that they should have ordered it made of steel instead.
You just mentioned the stupidest reason in the world to go with Ferrari vs whatever. Ferrari and the such are high speed race cars and the manufactures are making those cars as light as possible to make them as fast as possible...one thing though...they didn't make them to last as long, that isn't their point. And crash worthiness of carbon fiber used in cars is very good, why is that? Because they have developed honeycomb designs that can hold up to forces better than the old way using crumple zones...we don't have that luxury on our bikes because it would drive up the weight and the cost. The below videos will show you the inferior aspects to carbon fiber.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk98yvozq1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvk63...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=p92Stnnigjs
http://www.bicyclepaper.com/articles...n-Fiber-Frames
http://www.light-bicycle.com/choose-...ke-frames.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_bicycle
I can go on and on but again all of this is meaningless because I'm not going to be able to sway your opinion nor will you sway mine.