Originally Posted by
harrisonk
It's interesting because some companies, like Bianchi and Pinarello, brag about their carbon. Other companies, such as Cervelo, offer no information whatsoever about their carbon. However, both companies claim to use the best carbon in their frames. How, then, can a consumer make an educated decision between the competing brands when there is no way to compare constant variables? In other words, the implication is that attempting to compare different manufacturer's carbon is necessarily comparing apples to oranges. This makes it difficult for a consumer to be properly informed.
The last time you bought a car, did you ask for the chemistry of the metals used?
The modulus of the carbon has nothing to do with quality. You are not going to be able to tell anything useful about a frame by knowing it is 25% T700 and 75% T1000.
Evaluate bikes the way everyone else does - by its specifications, reputation and ride qualities. It could be 20% pencil shavings, but if that produces a great frame, why do you need to know about them?
Taking the opposite view, you can make an incredibly poor frame with the same materials someone else made a perfect frame out of.