Originally Posted by Johno59

If you are very fit and very strong a CF bike will leave every other made bike in your wake, regardless whether it be on a track or on a 3000 km tour.
f you are neither fit nor strong the added cost and reduced comfort makes little sense.
These characteristics still appeal to an amateur for aspirational reasons but if you foolishly lend your bike to anyone or allow it to fall over, whether you are mounted on it or it merely fell over in the bike park, the rationality vi's a vi's steel makes even less sense.
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