When I say carbon is stronger than steel, I'm talking about riding the damn thing, not crashing it - this is why a carbon frame weighs like 60% of a steel frame - because it's stronger stuff. You're thinking of a property better described as toughness. By the way, it's said that carbon's fatigue life is practically infinite.
And there's no way in hell tube profiling and mucking around with wall thickness can match what you can do with carbon in terms of stiffness and compliance in various directions.
This shouldn't be that hard to understand.
PS. My TCR cost $40 after I sold the groupset off it.
Last edited by Kimmo; 06-09-18 at 02:01 AM.