Originally Posted by
Psimet2001
Nope. We haven't missed that point but its a bit like wizzing into the wind. You can't hold a material suspect based on the possibility that someone, somewhere is building something crappy with it. Especially when it has been shown to perform amazingly well when used by quality manufacturers over the last 35 or so years.
Neither the OP nor I "hold a material [i.e., carbon fiber] suspect based on the [mere] possibility that someone, somewhere is building something crappy with it." We were both discussing <$1,000 carbon fiber bikes of unknown origins. Now of course we do not have industry experience (like you do) so perhaps the $1,000 point is not the threshold between safe and unsafe. But your next post (#65) seems to reinforce, rather than contradict, this concern.